I was finally able to beat my previous score, grabbing every speed boost I could find helped a lot but it seemed like sometimes they just weren't there or were so far away that I never saw them.
Thank you for trying again. Your new score pushes you up to rank 10! :-)
The items are distributed randomly over each dungeon. But the total number of them is always the same. Since the levels are quite big there is a certain possibility to have no items visible on screen. However there are tricks to somehow enhance your field of view. E.g. you can often walk a "V"-shape through rooms. This will not cost you anything compared to moving straight because of your ability to walk diagonal. This allows you to pan your screen and maybe discover an upgrade. I would recommend the video of ToneHack since he explains a lot of tricks.
Hello nobusawa,
there is a new version of RunToTheStairs:
- The game now has a server-sided backend wich is hosted at GreenGeeks.
- This allows to generate automatic high-score-tables which are accessible from within the game.
- Players can register accounts in order to keep their progress.
- High-Score-Tables can be sorted by different criteria. (e.g. "Score per Hour" which should be interesting for speedrunners)
- Balancing changes towards shorter games.
- Less unfair: The players position is newly calculated if the distance to catch up would be to large.
- More versatile pathfinding-algorithm with better performance.
Please consider to play again!
Gerhard