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Block Runner

By flai

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme3253.77
Fun7862.73
Overall7902.95
Graphics9422.55
Mood9522.47
Innovation11292.23
Coolness159437

Comments

argo15 2013-04-29 06:54

Bonus points for level creator.

egos 2013-04-29 14:44

the game crash when i click on the .exe

depp 2013-04-29 14:49

Wow, a level editor... It would be nice if it automatically restarted when I failed, preferably at the same starting place so I can learn from my mistakes.

metadept 2013-04-29 15:02

Glad you didn't give up! Pretty impressive for only 5 hours of work, including multiple levels and an editor and everything. The jumping mechanics aren't bad, but I feel like they could use even more tuning since they're so central to the game. Well done, though! I'm curious what your other prototypes were...

bushmango3 2013-04-29 15:42

I love that you included the editor. The game itself was WAAAY to hard for me.

darkhunter 2013-04-30 07:41

A little bit harder on some places.

zinfandel 2013-04-30 10:32

Very nice game. I died a lot, maybe make it so the space effect is more pronounced - that we can jump longer. And less things which can kill us.
I love the overall mood here.

flai 2013-04-30 11:07

Thanks to all of you for your kind words :) !

@egos

Hmm.. Are you sure you have XNA4.0 installed? Also your computer must have good enough GPU to support it, but since I used XNA's "Reach" Mode, pretty much every GPU in the past 8 years should support it :)

@metadept

Yeah, I'm kinda planning to port this to Windows Phone (and obviously add more sectors /variety etc.) and I'll definitely tweak the jumping. Maybe also make the collision a little bit forgiving, like if you just barely touch the right side of the block, it doesn't kill you.

Anyways, my previous games: The first one was a platformer. I had a sort of unique idea for it but I scrapped it before I implemented it. Collision and moving was working already though when I scrapped it.

Then I started making a roguelike game. Got dungeon generation kinda working, had enemies, had stats, had moving (didn't have attacking or items though). Here's a screenshot of it: http://i.imgur.com/RlAT2Eu.png

The third one was this puzzley game where you had to connect all the dots with the same color to each other without the lines between them intersecting with any other line. I thought that it was good idea at first but didn't come up with even a single decent level :( I had a level editor for this too :P Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZAce8Wx.jpg

pixelboy_85 2013-04-30 14:27

Yay for level editor! Great entry.

mortl8324 2013-04-30 14:28

Very cool game. A bit unforgiving though. I pretty much never died to lava but always died cause I barely touched the side of the wall... Other than that, GREAT game!

my-milked-eek 2013-04-30 14:31

Great game. Could have been easier on some levels. But great. Also Level editor!

ashdnazg 2013-04-30 14:42

I died way too many times, and it crashes too much, but all in all it seems quite good!

+1 for level editor!

timtipgames 2013-04-30 20:29

another +1 for the editor.

joror 2013-05-01 21:55

Too much platformy jumpy for me, but color-scheme is really expressive. Couldn't get the 'long' jump by holding space?

flai 2013-05-02 00:10

@Joror

Hmm, holding space should make you jump longer, though the effect is not very strong. Most likely you just didn't notice it :P

rafaelsales 2013-05-05 15:43

Great runner. Interesting and simplistic solution to the theme. Congratz! Keep working dude