Sigh, it's alright. I just got excited there and then I saw it's not for the old breadbin.... game looks fine otherwise. Probably not able to run it on the old hardware.
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Underland? Huh. no idea what that is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?
Ah come on, 5 weeks, 5 months, time doesn't matter in the C64 realm!
Maybe one day you will try and if so I will play it when it's finished. After all, if we don't do the work, who will? No one does it for us.
Sometimes I wish it were so, but sometimes it's just that, tedious work :)
Anyway thanks for listening.
Keyboard is not the issue here, I play with keyboard too. The issue is the controls.
Compare the controls with "Super Mario" from ZeroPaige. Those controls use the correct control scheme as established by Nintendo long ago - You press fire, Mario jumps, you steer left or right in mid air, Mario moves left or right mid air.
Classic correct control scheme. This game? Nah. Make a proper control scheme and I'd love to play it :)
This little thing? Oh I make these myself. Well, as in "I take some nice graphics someone made and make a cover sheet out of it". You can download all of these covers from my itch page, reflex64.itch.io (shamless self-advert).
No, it actually works. I found out that the jump mechanic is *really* bad tho - let me explain:
I expect the character to jump when you press the fire button, but he only jumps when you also press left or right - now that's a bad control scheme, totally imprecise. You constantly fall to your death because of that.
Overall cute game, but the control scheme is kabonkers, a good game brought down by bad controls :(
made a cover for this (and other games). you can grab it from my itch page. (shameless self-advertising).
looks like a graphics hack of a very mid 2016 platformer with imprecise controls. i compared the original with this one and albeit it now features multicolor graphics the clarity of the original spritework (which was colorful enough already imho) is now lost.
all in all maybe a 7.0/10 (updated as per "request")