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i'm going to do it in unity ffs

Very cool

Hi all

Flug The Slug is a platformer based on my original creation from 2004, which you may recognise.  It is a reboot of sorts and I'm hoping to make a couple of sequels.

It is inspired by popular platform games of the 90s.

The original Flug games were built using The Games Factory by Clickteam, this new version was developed using Clickteam Fusion 2.5 (just an updated version of the same software). I have attempted to recreate a Flug game for many years, having multiple engine tests dating back as far as 2008. So to finally have something ready to release is pretty special for me.

View the game to download + for more: https://hollyhoj.itch.io/flug-the-slug-2020

Story

The evil Spudnick is once again invading Flug's home planet of Bugtonia. You play as Flug through various colourful stages and must defeat Spudnick at the end of each.

Levels

There's 10 levels in total:

• Green Island
• Desert Dunes
• Colour Station
• Lava World
• Geomerty Land
• Icy Plains
• Platinum Zone
• Spudnick's lab
• Secret unlockable level 1
• Secret unlockable level 2

After struggling with graphics and taking too long to make anything more detailed, I decided to keep with a more minimalistic style, which is similar to what I was doing back in 2004.  Basic 20x20 blocks.  Bit of colour + some textures.  It's upscale but I think it's fun to look at in the 1x1 scale too (you can choose the resolution when playing, it plays windowed by default but allows fullscreen too, and gamepad).

Design / Bosses

I designed everything in Abode first. The villain is Spudnick, an evil alien green blob. He's also super genius making robots and inventions obv. 1 boss at the end of every stage. Hopefully you understand the image above, on the left is what I call the Spud-usb, his tiny craft which fits into other parts, forming a boss.

Spud robo army

Spudnick makes these for Flug to deal with. I think there's a couple more too.

Here's an early concept:

Just so you can see progression. It went through a couple of iterations before I stuck to the new graphics style.

Video

Conclusion

I think I made this game for myself more than anything, but would be fantastic to have others try it too.

Link: https://hollyhoj.itch.io/flug-the-slug-2020

:D

is it done?