Hi, the art on this evocative of c&c as well as fallout what have you is really rad! Cool 2d box art and logos. And then then shaihulud as the brotherhood of nod showed up as the youtube avatar pic. Bang on!
Hey, a nice game! Walking around and collecting the stuff. I had 3/3 of everything except for the insect on the far right which I wasn't able to bag once.
Hi Nezuo, took this for a spin. It has groovy aesthetic. Some indication of whether my shots were hitting the enemies would be cool. A good jam submission.
Cheers PoodlePilot, there is some maths behind the movement and the rotation functions. The leg displacement is built multiplying a step with a triangle function. The rotation isn't quite right yet, but it uses the tic80 methods for drawing triangles. I will polish up that method and write a devlog. Rotation around a point (other than the centre of the sprite) could be handy for other tic80 coders.
Yes, it is very similar to mechavania which I did last year in libgdx. I wanted to add more enemies that you can kill and a proper win loose state so I didn't get round to implementing any of those ideas. Yep I will put some more work in now that many of the base systems are down.
Hey Jasoon, I have come across a couple of games billed as deluxe or DX recently. (Confirmation bias?) Does this signify something specific or is it just a term?
There should be more games like this - rules don't apply. When you are coding a game you can do what you like. I had forgotten this. The premise of this game reminded me again.
Hi Krapfen, thanks for taking the game for a spin. Currently the ghost movement is handled by an instruction list that plays out the button presses as the timer runs. I think even with stable 60fps there is still some "spillage". I don't want to save absolute positions so that the ghosts can still be influenced by later runs. For example if they are standing on an elevator. The logic for the breaking of blocks also needs to be checked.
Bottom line, there needs to be a set of reliable rules for this concept to work. Cheers for your input!
Cheers. Yep feedback is that the controls need some improvement. I will also have to tweak the jump acceleration and gravity. The reachable height and distances can't be left to chance. The game also really needs some better character sprites so that it is all more relatable.
Thanks Eli, I wanted to try this and can imagine different logical situations and puzzles based on this premise. The technical execution is proving slightly more difficult.
What a shame that this entry was disqualified from the jam by the hosts. So all the the development happened during the jam, you came up with the story beforehand. All the other entries without an explicit story couldn't fall into that particular trap.
As this jam didn't have a surprise theme it's only natural to start having ideas prior to the actual period. And you even worked out a groovy fictional lost cartridge story.
