tahooey 2013-04-29 09:55
A nice little game :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → MiniJump
By jaypc000
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | 423 | 3.23 | ||
| Humor | 580 | 2.19 | ||
| Theme | 737 | 3.35 | ||
| Fun | 786 | 2.73 | ||
| Audio | 955 | 1.96 | ||
| Overall | 1013 | 2.72 | ||
| Mood | 1090 | 2.27 | ||
| Innovation | 1248 | 2.00 | ||
| Coolness | 1364 | 46 |
A nice little game :)
Find LOL and potato =)
Nice game! Well done ;)
Too short, but really good ;)
For some reason it wouldn't run for me on Windows (Vista :/) ... so I made a Linux build (+source):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/126566/tmp/LD26/MiniJump_linux.zip
... which actually runs in Windows and Linux for me :)
I love the overall visual design of the levels and the colour scheme - great setup for a minimal platformer. My cat enjoyed watching me play too - she seems to love anything with little moving squares.
The nitpicks: Left/right movement felt a little sluggish. Maybe it's because my expectations always compare to one of the SMBs (Super Meatio Broboys), but I'd like it to feel like there is a little less resistance to walking. Spike collision detection should be a polygon (or design the levels so you can never walk into the side of a spike block) - but yeh, harder to implement than a box collider, depending on the engine. And finally ... the character should have a tiny little eye and mouth (dot and line) to make me care more about him/her :) Great entry, thanks for making it.
Thank you everyone! :D
Kacpersk1 If you want to add to the game, there is a level editor, and the levels can be exported with the F6 key. They will be exported to res/modLevels/foo.txt
change that name to anything you want and put the file in res/levels/ and then open res/masterLevelList in notepad and add the file name too that, it should show up in the game(the game reads the master list, and then finds the file of the same name in res/levels.)
Thats how I made all the levels in the game.
pansapiens I could easily fix the left right acceleration by changing some of the settings, and I could also increase the friction of the player so you would stop sooner(Some perspective this is the first game that I didn't use a static movement speed and used Velocity and Gravity and what not. So I spent a LOT of time figuring out how to do it, and less time tweaking it to play slightly better.)
The last change I was going to make was changing the Collision of spikes, in fact in the Project its changed to a polygon instead of a rect, but I didn't finish in time for the submission for the compo.
The spikes are also slightly shorter in the current build so you don't get the spike touching you when you stand on the corner of the block and over hang on to a spike.
I do like the idea of putting a face on it, I'll probably add a left right facing as well when I get a chance to add to it
Ah, always frustrating when you have a feature almost done but can't get it into that final build .. know the feeling :)
Nice simple graphics style. Double jump feels good. I made it all the way through. There is a some rendering glitches causing pixel to show on the edges of some textures like the spikes. Maybe try using the wrap or border color render states. Frame rate seemed to drop when a lot of stuff was on screen. Might look more interesting if the background wasn't flat white.
KilledByAPixel, Thanks for the feedback, Im not sure what causes the textures to have that Black line above them, but I don't think i can fix it, as I think its Caused by the Slick2D rendering engine and i'm definitely looking into it.
I use rudimentary lists for all the platforms and each block is a platform even if its not reachable. Originally the Idea was to make Groupings of blocks into one big polygon, and then Generate the texture inside of it with images procedurally. But I ran into issues early on, and scraped the idea making it more simple, but slightly more Processor intensive(every update it has to check collision with EVERY platform in the list) I've been working on learning how to take this and implement a Quadtree Collision system so I reduce the number of collision checks per frame
as for the background, I was going for the game to look like a piece of Minimalistic art which made it turn out looking a lot like:
http://www.ifullscreen.com/thumbs/artistic_minimalism_wallpaper_7-t2.jpg
I like it flat white, Maybe a all white with a texture, but I didn't want to muss up the Clean cut feel by dirtying the background, and I didn't want to add a color because it would detract from the importance of the color in the platforms.
The original Idea was to make the level ENTIRELY white and the level Reveals itself as you touch platforms, in a very Bastion style. The Blocks were going to have light shadows, and you had to Reveal the colors by touching them. only once you have restored all the color or something like that, would the Exit gate open.
Most of the reason the game looks kinda bland, is because of time constraints XD
Interesting level design (I liked the potato and LOL),and I liked the graphics. The game was a bit too easy and too short.
Loved the whole look of this game :)
Nice looking little platformer. Could have done with something to tell you that there's a double-jump - I died like 20 times on the first level before I figured that out...
HELLO23 - I started with a level that was empty except one block to stand on, a start point and an end point. then used the F5 level editor to make the levels, then F6 to output them.
@SamPotasz - Thanks! I wanted to go for a simple look that wasn't complicated and had an artistic look. The build I did In the following days for my amusement, also have background color changes, and a HSB System for changing the colors of EVERYTHING On the fly. It creates 6 colors for the blocks and a background color randomly when you start a level.
Beerman - I had planned to add Directions as graphics that float next to the player, but trouble with Collision, caused Issues, and I ran out of time. (secret: I planned on turning this into an interactive Resume once I was done ironing out the gameplay for kicks and giggles, using the same tutorial system. but to make Info about myself appear as you progress)
I liked the visual style, but other than that, the game.. wasn't very intresting, could use some kind of gimmick.
Pleasing graphics, it was impossible to make a really ugly level.
I really liked the graphic style you used. Primitive, but stylish. It was straightforward but fun to play too.
I couldn't run the jar (win 7)
"couldn't find mini_game.Launcher"
I ended up taking the source I building it but my jre is the version 6 so the problem persists.
I'll probably update and try your game, but if anyone is in my situation I hope this troubleshoot comes handy.
I beat level 3 without cheating, so that's cool. Make ALL the levels that hard. On purpose.
Ok game, nice graphic minimalistic style. A few more gameplay elements would have been welcome after level 3.