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Jetpack Pixel

By jlauener

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness372
Humor1083.13
Fun1373.39
Graphics1913.45
Theme2213.43
Overall2573.27
Audio2592.91
Mood3432.81
Innovation5232.73

Comments

matt 2012-04-23 04:48

Very nice job.

jlauener 2012-04-23 18:41

Thx :)

jlauener 2012-04-23 18:51

By the way my personnal highscore is 74 hours =)

jeroenimooo 2012-04-23 20:11

The music is very funny :D Also the time changing graphics are awesome. My highest score was: 2 days 16 hours

beerman 2012-04-23 20:37

Nice twist on the endless runner genre, and the day/night transitions were really well handled. Great job.

kitch 2012-04-24 17:57

Good job. Simple, yet fun. As mentioned above, the day night transitions were a nice touch.

mesene 2012-04-24 17:57

good job, simple and effective.

jeffalisk 2012-04-24 18:00

Slickly done. The lights gradually coming on at night is a great little touch. Super-annoying music though :)

chinchang 2012-04-24 18:02

nice fun game. liked the taunts and daynight system. really fun to play :) nice job!

datamosh 2012-04-25 19:44

Simple and nice game. I love night transition.

jlauener 2012-04-25 20:56

Hey there! Thanks all for the nice comment :)

ilo 2012-04-25 23:44

The lights coming on were a nice touch. Perhaps the jet pack could have been a bit smoother - it's kind of either 'on' or 'off' at the moment - but then that might have been harder to control in practice.

NB. We need a jet pack category. :)

derrickdool 2012-04-26 20:49

Loved the music change-up at night. The audio track is great overall.
Consider throwing this out on mobile devises. Great Fun.

derrickdool 2012-04-26 20:49

Loved the music change-up at night. The audio track is great overall.
Consider throwing this out on mobile devices. Great Fun.

pinkmonkeyhead 2012-04-26 20:50

57 hours! Nice gfx, but gravity is kinda tricky

naouak 2012-04-26 20:52

I didn't had any sound when playing the game and the jetpack was a bit too fast for me.
I loved the concept and the scoring system, it seems a lot more fun than a number.

lotsa 2012-04-27 11:46

Good job...I'm too good at dying on it.

jlauener 2012-04-29 16:38

Again thanks for the comment.

derrickdool: Indeed I consider porting the game. That would be more work than 48 hours though ;)

raarlac: Congrats on your score!

rhy3756547 2012-04-29 20:54

Fun game, but I can't hear the music for some reason. I'll leave that as N/A.

jlauener 2012-05-01 18:43

Strange RHY3756547, if you ever pass by again I would be glad to know your OS/Browser.

badlydrawnrod 2012-05-01 19:20

You should make this into a phone game. It's simple, well executed and I played it several times trying to do better. Love the day/night cycle, and would like to see this developed a bit further with more variety, eg, different worlds, adversaries, etc. Nice one.

piterlouis 2012-05-01 19:22

Simple and addictive. Day night cycle is awesome. Very nice job.

endurion 2012-05-01 19:26

Not bad, I especially like the day/night cycle.

However there's not that much variety in the gameplay, maybe add something that makes the player want to jetpack more often.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-05-02 20:17

Nice work! The comments make this awesome :)

kevinworkman 2012-05-02 22:35

This is an awesome example of what Processing is best at- using primitives and colors to make deceptively pretty, interesting, and interactive visuals. I really liked the day/night switch, nice touch. It would be even better with high scores and some more variety, but this is a great job.

mrho 2012-05-03 13:36

I like the night song.
Silly idea to use jetpack to avoid buildings :P

ghribacki 2012-05-04 22:35

Nice graphics and audio! Funny and moody game. I ran for 47 hours before hitting the first building. =)

chaos_viper 2012-05-05 09:18

Very nice game!! :).. I like the sound effects and i love when the night come! The effect of the lights that turn on is awesome!

robcozzens 2012-05-05 21:08

Nice. Pretty fun, but the gravity didn't seem quite right.

yosh 2012-05-12 16:26

"You survived 35H" - That's easy I'm french.

benw 2012-05-12 16:28

Very nice day night transitions. My only complaint was that the gravity felt a bit steep.

sheepolution 2012-05-12 16:32

Sweet, small game! It's a perfect game for something I'd love to play on my smartphone (if I had one). I love text the pixel set at the start of every game :D

brighterorange 2012-05-12 16:33

This is cute. The physics are pretty wrong for a jetpack (I don't seem to have any "velocity", but it seems like the world is at least created in such a way that I can continue forever if I'm good. I like the graphics (particularly the disorienting perspective on the windows). The high point for me is when the techno beats come in at night time. :)

Hi-score 40 hours!

several 2012-05-12 16:51

Pleasant little one-button avoider. As others have observed, the day/night cycle & lights coming on are nice touches, and it seems like you could go even further.

Although it was an unpleasant surprise at first, I was able to fairly quickly get a handle on the weirdly sudden gravity by thinking of pound-the-ground moves in platformers; perhaps if there were some graphical cue to this effect (maybe a small blast at the top of the pack?) it'd help to explain or get a "feel" for the rather sudden velocity change, but it could probably stand to be a little more floaty either way.

kaidoe 2012-08-02 13:33

Great game, unfortunately I lasted 28 hours... Perhaps because I spent most of the time trying to make music with the jump sound, great game!