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Elevation

By finn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme384.32
Fun743.86
Innovation793.86
Overall2663.59
Humor5682.56
Mood7302.95
Graphics7672.95
Coolness150746

Comments

memoryleek 2015-12-15 19:32

Great fun, just enough challenge and plenty of levels :)
I had to install pytmx on Linux to play the game.

intxparts 2015-12-15 22:36

Nice job on the game, it has a good feel to it! I really enjoyed the transfer of the elevator's momentum to give the robot a little hop at the end.

memoryleek 2015-12-16 06:39

Oh, I also forgot to mentuon that I really like the level design. Especially how you introduce players to new mechanics progressively. We have a lot to learn from this as our games always end up too hard ;)

beetracks 2015-12-18 03:36

Good game! I like the puzzles. Challenging but beatable, after you figure it out. Nice work!

budi 2015-12-20 19:01

This game is pretty awesome - I really like the level design and level progression! Really great concept. :-)

imagossoftworks 2015-12-24 23:54

Repetitive.

-Alex

mahalis 2015-12-25 03:14

Fantastic! Love the concept and the execution. The elevator physics can be a bit wonky - it might be better for them to stop and reverse if they'd get stuck on a robot, rather than just letting it break through - but other than that this is outstanding. Looking forward to playing through more of it.

finn 2015-12-25 23:00

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'm glad the work we put into getting the level progression right paid off.

mahalis: That is a good suggestion, and it should be relatively easy to implement in a post-ld build. We already detect that situation, but currently disable collisions with moving elevators under those conditions. Reversing the direction of the elevator is a much better idea.

wukkopi 2015-12-26 01:19

Really cool puzzle game, really one of the best i've seen this LD, congratulations!

johnnwfs 2015-12-26 03:11

Good work, this was fun.

alliel_a 2015-12-26 12:58

nice game

eruiz00 2015-12-26 13:46

Maybe repetitive, yes, but interesting playability. Well done!

astrophics 2015-12-26 15:08

Really cool concept! I had lots of fun with it, but got stuck on level 6. Graet job!

f7f5 2015-12-28 22:14

Strange entry. Initially I wasn't hooked on the visuals (sometimes they looked a bit confusing), it seemed to have a few boring moments, having to wait for the robot to slowly follow its path to a platform, and specially the lack of audio also put me down.

But the gameplay and puzzles got me hooked and I had to clear all 10 levels! In the end, that's what I want in a game.

Btw, level 10 could use a "restart" key, for when you screw up and realize your robot's going to die.