sitebender
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I am doing a game jam to enhance my platformer engine. The last 1 week game enhanced it a lot and at the end I have something quality.
With this in mind I set an unachievable goal... MetroidVania in 7 days. I've made smaller MetroidVanias in the same amount of time, but that was with an artist. I will take a stab at making a full 30 x 30. I spent the first day retooling the platformer engine to load rooms rather than levels.
* edit * Well I failed to get the game out in 7 days. The game is now a map of 60 x 60 screens and doubled its resolution. So to be more impressive I pushed the first few updates back to the second post and dumped a bunch of later screenshots here.
FEATURES IN GAME ALREADY:
- Ledge cling. Crouching. Far jumping. Standing jump is a higher jump.
- 3 sectors. 130 rooms (and 200 empty rooms for the unfinished 5 other sectors)
- Save points and continuing.
- Map rooms that reveal new sections of map.
- Mini map at the top right and a mega map.
- Ability granting via hopping into a cybernetic lion's mouth.
- 4 directional shooting and crouch shooting.
- Catball with cat bombs and bomb jumping including further horizontal bomb jumping.
- 6 different tilesets. Is that a feature?
- Slopes. Catball can roll down faster.
Screenshots and a few .gifs
With this in mind I set an unachievable goal... MetroidVania in 7 days. I've made smaller MetroidVanias in the same amount of time, but that was with an artist. I will take a stab at making a full 30 x 30. I spent the first day retooling the platformer engine to load rooms rather than levels.
* edit * Well I failed to get the game out in 7 days. The game is now a map of 60 x 60 screens and doubled its resolution. So to be more impressive I pushed the first few updates back to the second post and dumped a bunch of later screenshots here.
FEATURES IN GAME ALREADY:
- Ledge cling. Crouching. Far jumping. Standing jump is a higher jump.
- 3 sectors. 130 rooms (and 200 empty rooms for the unfinished 5 other sectors)
- Save points and continuing.
- Map rooms that reveal new sections of map.
- Mini map at the top right and a mega map.
- Ability granting via hopping into a cybernetic lion's mouth.
- 4 directional shooting and crouch shooting.
- Catball with cat bombs and bomb jumping including further horizontal bomb jumping.
- 6 different tilesets. Is that a feature?
- Slopes. Catball can roll down faster.
Screenshots and a few .gifs
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