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Behind the Mask

By raphi

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Graphics4923.50
Mood6793.00
Humor8501.64
Fun8892.66
Theme9243.00
Overall9312.80
Innovation9462.37

Comments

fishtrek 2015-12-15 04:00

love the pixel art. controls and level design are very unforgivable but i'm sure could be fixed up given some more time. nice work :)

draklaw 2015-12-16 23:32

Really nice graphisms, hard to play, maybe it would need a bit more balance (... Or I need to practice more on SMB)

plauk 2015-12-17 10:06

Your pixel art is quite good, but you've left bilinear sampling on. Use point sampling and it will look a whole lot better.

I couldn't figure out how to slide. Not sure what "Slide with maj" means.

solifuge 2015-12-17 10:15

** Note for folks who are confused; Maj is Shift, Espace is Space.

Some great pixel art, and solid music choices; they really set the tone. I liked the character design too; that's a pretty neat hat, and I loved the claw they used to grip into wood and crumbling stone.

The platforming was indeed quite hard, but I managed to beat it; if you had more time, some easier levels to get the player familiar with the controls would be good. I liked the growing platforms, and how all the different blocks interacted; very good design there, and some well-crafted puzzles! I may have cheated, since I avoided the first green trigger in order to finish the last level; I couldn't jump up the thorny wall before the floor caught up with me.

For criticism, the controls seemed to not respond some times, especially Jump; many times, I'd hit Jump, but just walk off the edge of a platform, which was frustrating in such a precise game like this.

Thanks very much for putting this together; it was a lot of fun, and a well made platformer!

lullaby 2015-12-17 10:21

The mood is here but damn it's hard :p could not go so far but really nice music and puzzles! Didn't succeed to slide however!

Nice background on title screen!

publicidadeba 2015-12-17 10:22

The mood is there, but I cannot say the same about the level design, otherwise good game!

monetai 2015-12-17 10:24

normal game, jumping was not working on every imput

bubsypoochies 2015-12-17 10:30

Very nice little platformer! The visuals, animations and moves are great, kinda remind us of Wonderboy, as well as the temple atmosphere. Gampleay wise controls are tight, but maybe it's a bit too challenging: a small error and you're dead meat! Good job!

triello 2015-12-17 13:29

Beautiful pixel art!

mockthebear 2015-12-17 13:33

I like thert, but the mechanics are a bit strange. I think the controls arent responsive. When your'e running at the second stage, you cant jump right aft ther second plataform. That just broke the game to me. I could jump so i could proceed in time. Btw, what "maj" means?

rico-albe 2015-12-18 10:05

As some have pointed out, your pixel art would look much better without bilinear sampling. Controls aren't very responsive, especially jumping: half the times, you can't jump when you intend to, and you fall down to a quick death.

Keep working on it, good job!

rzuf 2015-12-18 10:17

It lacks some polish, but it can be a start of something truly awesome. :D Your pixel art is top-notch. Most of the time the space doesn't work which is super frustrating. :D

jlouisb 2015-12-18 11:16

As pointed by others : controls, and especially jumps, should be more responsive.
Another issue I had was the soundtrack : it sounds good, but it's clipping every three seconds which makes it hard to enjoy. Maybe reducing the master volume would be enough to prevent that.

raphi 2015-12-18 13:38

Thank you guys for comments, I'm actually working on the jump to make it more responsive :)

richardboegli 2015-12-19 01:58

Great job.

Love the pace of the game, you had to have the timing perfect.

Gave up on Level 2, as I just could not get the timing right.

Had a similar issue where Jump would not respond sometimes when pressing direction key.

Had to remap and use A and D for Left and right (Personal Preference) using AutoHotKey.

MAJ = Shift for slide, you should edit the description.

Music fit in with the style of the game.

kepons 2015-12-19 11:25

The controls seemed a bit unresponsive and the hitboxes and speeds were a bit weird. Otherwise, a nice game.

josearias 2015-12-23 17:03

I liked it but the space sometimes doesnt work