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[BENJAMUS]

Howdy, Game Maker Community! I'm excited to tell you that at last I've produced the final public demo of Vertex, which has been in development for years!   Vertex is an action exploration platformer in which the player explores the province of Halcyon to fight against the unknown force behind the attack on the Vertex. This demo includes the following, and more:

• an average of 2 to 3 hours of gameplay
• a working inventory and shop
• original sound, music, and graphics
• 5 major areas, plus multiple minor areas and secret areas
• Numerous boss battles

This game has inspiration from Nintendo's Super Metroid, Derek Yu's Spelunky,  Pixel's Cave Story, and a lot more games mentioned in the credits.

You can download it here. File size is approximately 36 MB.

Here's a peek at what the game looks like:





Additionally, here is an old teaser video for Vertex:


Enjoy the demo, and stay tuned! All feedback is welcome.

Edited by BENJAMUS, 25 March 2012 - 11:21 PM.

[spader555]

The boss is so hard

[Summoner99]

I love this game!

[Explicit]

amazing

not much to say because of that though..

[BENJAMUS]

The boss is so hard

Yeah, I have a tendency to make my games a little too hard I wanted him to be challenging, but if he's too hard I can alter him (for instance take out the mushrooms, if that would make it better). Were you able to get past him?

[skunkchop]

I suggest keeping the boss as it is. It's fine.
The graphics, gameplay AND level design all remind me of Cave Story. I suppose that's a good thing.
I think I did everything possible in the demo. I got 30 of those blue things and I upgraded my health to 13.

[RCCarThief]

Very nice game; excellent graphics, good level design from what I saw. The boss is a little difficult, only because of the mushrooms though. They're a little hard to see and I tend to die walking right into them before I even know they're there.

I'd like to watch this progress, it's a very nice game so far.

[BENJAMUS]

I suggest keeping the boss as it is. It's fine.
The graphics, gameplay AND level design all remind me of Cave Story. I suppose that's a good thing.
I think I did everything possible in the demo. I got 30 of those blue things and I upgraded my health to 13.

You're pretty darn close to having everything. The only thing you're missing is that your max HP in this demo can go up to 17, and there are two golden things (don't have a name yet ). But you have maxed out on the blue ones. Thanks for giving it such a thorough play through!

[BENJAMUS]

So! It's been a long while since anything has publicly happened with this game. I'd like to announce that a new public demo is ready for play! Here are some updates in the new demo:

• Movement system doesn't suck anymore. AKA you can run, jump, and attack at the same time. You still have to be standing still to switch characters though.
• Gemsteel Mine area, including one boss.
• Improvements in the town.
• In-development pause system (which, I'm hoping, will eventually include an inventory and an advanced map system. Press 'Enter' to pause).
• Varor's Barter Shop is now completely functional, but only accessible after you complete the Gemsteel Mine.
• A hidden Lake area, found in the Garden (currently there are no enemies in the lake, just some cool gimmicks).
• A bank system, so that you can store your money in the bank and not have to run to some area and collect hundreds of moneys every time you want to buy something.
• The beginning of the Master Tower area, including two minibosses. Note: the second miniboss comes after only about 2 rooms of the tower. I intend to make him come much later.
• Some adjustments to some of the graphics. Mainly just the garden tileset and the dungeon bricks.
• Sounds have been added. Some are definitely to be tweaked, though

These are in effect in the second demo, along with many many bug fixes.

Edited by BENJAMUS, 26 June 2011 - 05:42 PM.

[BENJAMUS]

The new public demo is available! See the previous post for info. Download link

[Keiferr]

I wish I had a pixel artist like you working on my games.

Upload to another host bro, couldn't get it from yoyogames.

[BENJAMUS]

I wish I had a pixel artist like you working on my games.

Upload to another host bro, couldn't get it from yoyogames.

Roger. Download from Box.net added to the original post.

[Jade]

The boss is so hard

I hope you didn't mean the first boss, cuz I beat him the first try.

Awesome game, I wonder if we'll see it in the Staff Choice or that new thing they got going there.

[Lithium]

Nevermind, durr.

Anyway excellent movement and graphics. The game feels smooth.

Edited by Lithium, 31 July 2010 - 10:37 AM.

[CrashingThunder]

I played until I beat the first boss and I was already very impressed with everything! The only thing I suggest is to fix some of the sound effects with the dialouge. They sound a bit annoying at times.

[BENJAMUS]

I played until I beat the first boss and I was already very impressed with everything! The only thing I suggest is to fix some of the sound effects with the dialouge. They sound a bit annoying at times.

Really? I like them. How would you suggest I change them? Like, do you think I should take them out completely?

Thank you all for the comments!

Awesome game, I wonder if we'll see it in the Staff Choice or that new thing they got going there.

That would be completely awesome, if I do say so myself. At least, for me it would

Edited by BENJAMUS, 26 June 2011 - 05:43 PM.

[ninja_sheep]

There's a slight glitch when you find the 2nd chracter just before the first boss fight. On the last page of dialogue with her it replays the noise to say you've "picked her up" over and over until the textbox goes.

[abyssaltwilight]

Game froze up at first boss for some reason, fun game and good graphics all the way there though.

[BENJAMUS]

There's a slight glitch when you find the 2nd chracter just before the first boss fight. On the last page of dialogue with her it replays the noise to say you've "picked her up" over and over until the textbox goes.

Right, I forgot about that. I shall get right on that. Thanks for reminding me

Game froze up at first boss for some reason, fun game and good graphics all the way there though.

Yeah, there are a couple glitches with Gunnar's opening cutscene. I think I'll just reprogram that cutscene for the next demo.

[Zeddy]

This game is beautiful and pretty solid. My only gripe is that the camera lags behind the player rather than the far preferably options of being locked dead-center or looking a bit ahead. I hope I don't have to explain why seeing more stuff behind me than in front of me is a complete waste of screen-estate.

Also, it would be nice if the punch made some sort of sound.

Also, I get error reading real when loading game.

Other than that, the game's pretty much perfect so far.

-I've got to say that the Frog-Dragon looks considerably more like a Penguin-Dragon.

-How does one load game without dying? It seems inconvenient to go kill myself at the spikes each time I boot the game up.

-Oh motherf- I died on the second boss because I accidentally hit up on the door (while airborne, no less!), so I couldn't control my character while he was reassuring me that the door was, in fact, locked. Then I got lasered in the face. The extra salt in the wound is the fact that I had the boss down on his last hitpoint.

Oh well, not like he was particularly difficult.

Edited by zeddidragon, 03 August 2010 - 10:20 AM.