Ancient Portal

ninja00283 2016-08-29 15:05

I LOVE this game!
I love the jumping.
I love that you can jump on the arrows.
I love the retro style.
but i hate how horrible i am at this game...

micah-goodhue 2016-08-29 22:48

Played it for a bit, not bad.

Here's what I thought:
-The mouse sensitivity is WAY too high, or at least for me. Maybe include a slider/input field to set it.
-Physics seem too, um, "stop-y"? When you let go of jump, you just fall straight down. Would be nice to keep gliding for a bit into the direction you were going.
-Mild inconveniences. For one, having to hit M->Enter/DownArrow->Enter is annoying when you die when taking the tutorial, there should be a single button to completely restart it. When you also start the game, if you literally walk forward 1ft you drop into lava and die. Annoying because I can't see down when I just spawn, and I don't expect to be dropped into a pit of lava when I begin.

There's also a bug I found, infinite mouse look. I'm sure you know about this, but I'd just like to point it out.

Overall, not bad and certainly better than some of the submissions I've played so far, but some overall polish would've been nice (if of course you had the time, otherwise I fully understand).

aroscillo 2016-08-29 23:49

Wow. you made that with Java?.. Good start you have the nice frame work for a Doom like game. With a cross bow. LOL I thought I was being original with the bow.. Everybody's got a Bow it should have been the Bow Jam lol.

malec2b 2016-08-30 02:40

The game could do a better job of explaining how strafe, jumping works, and maybe put you in an environment where you can try it out without dying if you get it wrong. Also, there should be an option to play again when you die without having to go back through the menu.

That being said, the game has a really nice look to it.

nnnnneeeedddd 2016-08-30 11:29

@AWOL yes, It's made purely with Java, LWJGL, I had no base code. Also, I didn't use a Maths library :). Thanks!

geckoo1337 2016-09-01 14:43

It hurts my eyes and especially the lava. A good entry with a retro aesthetic which I like. Well done ++

pickensincorporated 2016-09-02 17:36

Really like the super-low resolution aesthetic, and the textures meld well. The crossbow is fun to use, and strafe jumping is 3hard5me.

Super solid entry!

linus123xbb 2016-09-03 21:47

Trying to run this on linux gives me the following error http://pastebin.com/Pz8f5hyG

bleedingtiger 2016-09-04 19:07

A game that represents the way it was created : hardcore !

Ahah, love the grahpics and tips in the gameplay ;)

questionablequality 2016-09-11 16:31

I'm kind of sad I didn't get the hang of this one, but the fact you made this all from scratch is brilliant in itself. Perhaps a few less holes in the floor? It was quite hard concentrating on both killing aliens and not falling.

The highlight is up on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cantgetourname/v/88796963