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Z Jumper

By zaelza

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun4383.11
Mood4553.00
Audio4822.82
Graphics6232.94
Humor6792.06
Overall6983.04
Innovation9462.58
Theme11052.88

Comments

cmayhem 2013-04-29 09:55

I like the graphic design, the mood and the music. The game was a bit too difficult for me though, I didn't get very far.

doccrazy 2013-04-29 10:51

Seems to have have a problem with the level generator, quite often I got a level that was simply not possible.
Great game otherwise!

tiffi 2013-04-29 12:34

cool game, balancing is good, but i miss something like a score or a goal

alvaroh 2013-04-29 13:48

I love the graphics

frib 2013-04-29 13:53

Simple gameplay but nice visuals. But unless I'm missing something, it's possible to get stuck because there's no way up through a new level sometimes

kewry 2013-04-29 14:03

nice platformer! loved the mood you set with the music and lighting

zaelza 2013-04-29 14:17

Yes, this is bug in level generation, but i cant constantly repeat it %( Just sometimes generator get crazy and start spawn lines everywhere

kinzata 2013-04-29 16:06

The music seems out of place to me. I was expecting something more dramatic for this. Otherwise good job!

adonaac 2013-04-29 16:13

Neat game. Nice job with the lightning! Could have used the 'W' key to jump, though.

moist 2013-04-29 16:14

Cool visuals!

amour-maternel 2013-04-29 16:14

Nice mood and graphics. Fun game. I was in the zone for a moment.

felix20 2013-04-29 19:09

Nice game, it was really fun, and the sound and music was great. Personally I don't like using my left hand to move in a platformer, so I used my right hand with the keys and used my left hand to push space :p At least you didn't use up or w for jump.
The graphics are also excellent, overall a very good entry.

stefan 2013-04-29 19:09

I would have liked to play this, but it crashes right after starting the game using Windows 8. These error details might help you find the problem:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Z Jumper.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 517d925e
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.2.9200.16451
Fault Module Timestamp: 50988950
Exception Code: e0434352
Exception Offset: 00014b32

gaeel 2013-04-29 19:10

Some of the pieces felt a bit unfair and when chained together, require some ninja skills to perform, but fun take on the Xjump style of game

felix20 2013-04-29 19:11

Oh, one thing to change is a better indicator of at which point you start taking damage from the evil whatever thingy.

dasrkrain 2013-04-29 19:12

Great game! Hard to beat! :)

ptsnoop 2013-04-29 19:25

I love how nonchalant this game is about eternal evil. "Oh, btw..."

The red blocks didn't really affect gameplay all that much, since you always have more than enough health boxes. But great visual style, and well balanced difficulty (which isn't easy when you're procedurally generating levels, so nice one). Good game!

judasbenhur 2013-04-29 21:23

very difficult

jami 2013-04-29 21:25

Great graphics! Quite hard though.

manabreak 2013-04-30 09:58

Crashes right away when I press enter or space in the start. :/

bvanschooten 2013-04-30 10:08

Very playable platformer. Makes effective use of simple graphics to create a nice mood.

zaelza 2013-04-30 10:16

2 manabreak
mediaplayer problem i think
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5640469/xna-4-mediaplayer-play-method-throwing-drm-exception
(tl;dr : install mediaplayer
control panel \ Programs and Features \ Turn windows features on or off \ Media Features \ Windows Media Player
)

darkcortex 2013-04-30 13:11

very nice concept

jellycakes 2013-04-30 15:37

Really liked the visuals and the gameplay was solid and really enjoyable. Nice use of powerups. I did beat it pretty fast but it was still great. All hail the almighty sun god.

masadow 2013-04-30 18:03

Nice ambiant ! I liked that ! Good job

cakencode 2013-04-30 18:07

Fun game though I agree with PTSnoop about the red blocks not mattering too much. The visual style is nice if a bit cluttered.

Cool game :)

frosnite 2013-04-30 18:10

Difficult but definitely enjoyable! The overwhelming amount of power ups was kinda weird making it hard to focus on the path to follow, but overall, the game is cool :D. Cheers!

tyro 2013-05-01 08:06

Great visuals! I wish the arrow keys were mapped to a/d though. It's difficult for me to use spacebar to jump while moving with the keyboard like that.

the-jack 2013-05-01 08:20

I died.

davidemo89 2013-05-01 10:14

I like so much this type of shadows, good work!

mach60kas 2013-05-01 12:59

I really loved the light effects and the difficulty curve is pretty good. The core gameplay is simple and enjoyable, well done! :)

salamander3 2013-05-01 13:02

Not sure where the theme was in this one. I'd say the graphical style, but the lighting and particles were quite advanced. :P nice platformer, reminded me of 'Monsters (probably) Stole My Princess'. Not bad.

HelkeGames 2013-05-02 10:42

Nice game, good job !

rafaelsales 2013-05-03 18:36

Cool game. Interesting approach with the platforms. Congratz!

granada 2013-05-03 18:59

Nice game. It's a bit hard but overall ok. Nice job!

wiering 2013-05-05 14:55

Nice lighting effect. Why not also allow the arrow keys?

justinmullin 2013-05-07 01:39

Cool lighting effects, and a pretty solid platformer!

depp 2013-05-12 09:00

It seems if you hit the bottom side of a red platform, you die. Is that supposed to happen?

phocker 2013-05-16 03:46

game was hard because of using space for jump -- try something else -- like the idea -- nice effort

zaelza 2013-05-16 07:13

yes using space for jump is hard. You can use leftmouse for jump

csanyk 2013-05-18 04:26

As soon as I press Space to start a new game, it crashes:(

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: z jumper.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 5186c805
Problem Signature 04: Microsoft.Xna.Framework
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.20823.0
Problem Signature 06: 4c72cc22
Problem Signature 07: 504
Problem Signature 08: 51
Problem Signature 09: System.InvalidOperationException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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zaelza 2013-05-18 06:25

2csanyk
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5640469/xna-4-mediaplayer-play-method-throwing-drm-exception
(tl;dr : install mediaplayer
control panel \ Programs and Features \ Turn windows features on or off \ Media Features \ Windows Media Player
)