Controls
Use ◀️ and ▶️ to walk, 🅾️ to jump and ❎ to shoot. The longer you press on the jump button the higher you will jump. You are also able to walljump by pressing the jump button close to a wall. You can kill enemies by shooting at them. Hold 🔼 or 🔽 to move the camera and see your suroundings. You can shoot diagonally by pressing ❎ wile holding 🔼.
Goal
The goal is to reach the end of each level. To get a perfect score you will need to collect every coin of the level and never die.
Finishing a level will unlock access to the next one.
Story
You are making your way towards the source of EVIL that ravaged these now cursed lands. Fortunately you are not from this age and with you came the tools you will need to fight not only to survive but to save this world from the biggest threat it has ever faced. Unleash the fire power, make your skills talk and maybe you will be able to banish evil back to the dark realm where it belongs.
Secret
Somewhere in the lands there is a message from a greater power, this message will grant you access to each and every locations this world has to offer.
Making of
This is the first game I'm releasing on Pico-8 and the first time I give a try at level design. There is alot I would like to improve in the game but I have been working on it for a long time and it had to come out at some point.
Feel free to share feedbacks and I hope you'll enjoy the game !
Changelog
Version 4
- Added the "Invoker", a new monster that act as the boss of the 5th level
- Added the possibility to shoot diagonally holding the 🔼 key
- Code factorization to improve the token count
Version 3
- Improved camera to look forward when moving and up and down using 🔼 and 🔽 keys
- Added wall friction that slows your fall when close to a wall
- Added post signs to give tips and help telling the story
- Code has been factorised and every level uses most of the same code from
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TODOs
These are the things I intend to do in the future:
- Add musics to each levels and to to the title screen
- Make the roar of the cerberus more distinguishable from other sfx
- Make a special animation when collecting a weapon to make it look more important
- Add the Survival mode to be unlocked when all levels are completed. The Survival mode would consist of surviving the most amont of enemy wave in maps inspired from the differents levels. There would be multiple weaponds, power-ups to boost damage or increase armor...
- Make a cartrige illustration that represents more the game mood (with the hero killing a zombie)
- Maybe add a bloody medal for when you kill all enemies in a level
Solid game already. Would like to get more camera control to be able to look ahead. Since up and down keys are not used yet, having one pressed could move the camera toward the pressed keys for example. Alternatively, staying in place without touching anything could move the camera horizontally slowly after a couple seconds, as if the player was taking his time to gaze ahead. Might also make for a nice idle animation.
Wall jump is pretty tricky, adding a slight wall friction would help.
Thank you, I really appreciate the constructive feedbak ! I'll look into it to make it feel right.
I'm surprised that this game, which seems tailor-made for speed running, doesn't have a timer.
I think you've got a mostly solid game here, but, in my opinion, the controls need to be tightened up. The wall jump in particular felt very, very bad to me. It didn't feel smooth, it behaved oddly, and I did not enjoy using it. Instead of feeling like a fun addition to my arsenal, it felt like an annoying challenge being thrown in my way every time it came up.
I also think the hitboxes on enemies didn't feel great. If I land and it looks like I have one or two pixels of space, I shouldn't die. Even if I overlap the enemy by one pixel, I probably shouldn't die. Similar to coyote time, a little bit of forgiveness here makes a game more enjoyable.
Other than that, good job. Congratulations.
Thanks for your feedbacks PoorCosmo. I agree that hitboxes are too large and controls could be improved. Allthough I don't think the wall jump is particularly difficult, I made it so that once you touch the wall you don't need to press any directional key, just jump and the player will walljump forward. It is tuned so that in most occasions you don't have to worry about direction at all, to climb up inside a tower for example, just mash the jump button and the character does it all by himself. I thought it was a way of making it easier for the player. But I understand that it is odd when you are not used to it and should be more approchable. I tried the mario take where you stick to the wall but did not felt good, I think a coyote time for wall jump could be a nice addition for forgiveness to the player, I'll look into it and try to make it better. Also the timer is a really good idea.
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