Good idea, thanks.
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Hi Robert! I'm working on a small fantasy roguelike and decided to adapt your tileset to make it easier for me to generate the maps. I ended up almost completely reworking it, so I decided to share the result:
https://kosinaz.itch.io/16x16-dark-dungeon-tileset
Hi 0x72. This tileset has so much potential that I already created two game prototypes out of it and still missing a lot of elements.
Control Their Reality Ltd just used the basics but I already had some fun with it: https://kosinaz.itch.io/ctrl
And into Orphebot I wanted to put as much content as possible, so the UI is a little more barebones, and still couldn't add all the bots and objects. I couldn't figure out a good use for the beams, buttons, and displays that would still fit into my base concept, and I also had to slightly modify the height of the bots, but here we are. I hope you'll like it: https://kosinaz.itch.io/orphebot
I think I'll come back to this tileset in the future, and create a game that will really use eeeeverything from it. :D
Wow! Thank you so much for the detailed review! As you can see, I ran out of time, and focused on the core mechanics instead of running with the idea. I made the last level in the last hour, and I was very satisfied when I saw that I was able to implement it correctly without breaking the whole game. I was planning to add more puzzles like this, but had to face the reality, and finish the game as it was at that moment.
For the controls I had several ideas, and this fell the closest to a image/map editor. I can understand if that feels weird for some. I was thinking about leaving out the click completely, and refering only to the current mouse position. Maybe that would have been better.
I was also planning to allow multi-tile copy. That would have been a nice solution for the tiny platform issue. But limiting the movement controls to only these three keys was completely my fault, not related to the time constraint. I felt that because I like this sceme, I don't need to implement others even though it would have been just a few more characters in the code.
Thanks again for playing, for the extensive review, and for the tip for future players!
Thanks for playing! Yeah, I was thinking about why would the player use Ctrl+C more than once, but figured out a simple reason only when I made the last level. Other than that I had only more complex ideas with moving platforms and hazards but I had no time to implement those. I'm glad you liked the game anyways.
Yeah, thank you! I had the same ideas, but ran out of time. Ctrl+X to remove obstacles, Ctrl+Z to undo the placement, complex, multi-grid blocks to introduce a tetris-like element to the game, control panels to refill ctrls, moving objects, like elevators, cranes, laser gates, patroling and shooting enemies. So many ideas, so little time. Maybe I'll revisit them in the future. Thanks for playing!
Destination: Nowwanus Trivia
- Even if the asteroids were 100 times further away from each other than in the game, New Horizons still wouldn't stand a chance. In addition, they wouldn't slip by each other and still hit the drone, unless they are flat like Arrokoth. Also, they don't have angry/sleepy faces.
- The drone can't be controlled in real time, due to the distance.
- There is no flash on Ralph.
- The VBSDC can't predict the location of the asteroids based on the space dust samples.
- The RTG still has plenty of power to shoot a lot more photos in rapid succession.
- It's not enough to shoot some photos of some asteroids in the distance to get funding for the New Horizons project.
- There is no Kuiper Belt Object called Nowwanus.
Turns out taking photos while dodging asteroids is not the weirdest sidescroller idea in this jam. Collecting riffs while dodging time singularities, now we are talking.
The remembering part was not my cup of tea though, but reached a pretty good place on the charts I think.
The movement could be a bit more fluent, and there should be little more cohesion in the art, but afterall, this is a nice little game.