4 replies to this topic

[Batch]

Pangaea
An adventure platform made for the GMC Jam 3.
Created by:

• CubinJ - Programmer
• Linx - Spriter
• Ravenmonkey - BG artist, Level Designer, and Spriter

Adventure, Platform
File size: 9.39 MB (cuz of .mp3s)
GM8.1 (vista compatible)
Fullscreen (F4)


Click HERE for a sneak preview!

Pangaea Download
Description

The difficulty of the boss correlates to the number of enemies that you kill.
Can you tell how?

Please, please, and please leave comments, criticize, bash at us, as we are going to revamp this game completely and bring you back a game better than before!
Comment! Yeah?




Controls:

Spoiler

<Left> and <Right> arrow keys to move.
<Up> to jump.
[F] is the universal action key (pickup items, select option, interact, etc.)
[S] is to defend.
[Space] is to attack.

GUI:
Top Right:
Health Counter (20 Hit Points) and Sapling Counter (25 needed in order to reach the boss).

Upper Left:
Shield Counter (4 total) - one is used up per block, regenerates every 2 seconds, as long as you don't shield.

Wall Slide:
Move towards a wall while mid air to slide down the wall, slowing down your vertical velocity with friction.

Wall Jump:
Simply press the Jump Key while Wall Sliding.

Bugs:

Spoiler

• For those of you who feel that one of the caves is "impossible," it's in truth a puzzle.
  If you can't figure it out, here's the vid: Wall Jumping
• On one of the levels, in the upper areas, you may get stuck by walking onto a map. To avoid this, jump when changing maps.
• Saving doesn't work - it's been removed.
• A few extra saplings (27 total); but I doubt that you can find them, so don't worry about it.

With your lover dead, you resort to any means to get her back. You must overcome the Titans!
Scour throughout the continent in order to find the saplings needed to summon the final titan, Altus Lignum Malum.
Defeat his 3 main eyes and claim victory!

[Screen 1] [Screen 2]

-CubinJ

Edited by CubinJ, 31 January 2012 - 10:32 PM.

[True Valhalla]

The art obviously stands out as the best element of this game, but while the platform mechanics were a little rough there was some good code there too. Level designs was repetitive but well designed generally, and the atmosphere was fantastic. Combat was a little unvaried but, again, held it's own. Good work guys

[seal]

the games visually pleasing, and killing enemies feels definately satisfying. but as the dude above said, some things could use work, such as collisions when you hit something above you while jumping. Otherwise I'm looking forward to seeing how this project goes in the future. good work!

[Batch]

Thanks guys! And yeah, the camera was really bugged, especially when ledge climbing.

And yeah, level design took up a huge portion of the time (we were still fixing levels with 20 minutes to go haha).
If you've heard of the game Swords&Sworcery, on the iDevice, that is our "ideal goal."


We want an ambient, atmospheric, story based game, where graphics and sound play a HUGE deal.

We hope to improve combat in some way, but we could use some help.
Anyone willing to throw out ideas with their criticism?

@Seal:

Yeah, the collision with blocks above were a problem, I admit.
We really, really hope to finish this one with a bang!

Here's a sneak preview for those of you who read this topic:

Spoiler

One Man, Four Titans, but who's the real Antagonist? Was Lover's death natural, or was it a"coincidence" that the Sprite appears while Man is at his weakest?

Find out! Keep updated!
We will have large updates for each segment; one per Titan and then a few to finish the game itself. Of course we will have minor updates to fix bugs that you guys find.

Thanks for supporting us! Any criticism or comments will definitely help us!

Appreciate the comments guys!

-CubinJ

Edited by CubinJ, 04 August 2011 - 08:40 PM.

[ParodyKnaveBob]

Howdy! I apologize that it took so long to deliver my review of your game. In attempt to greatly speed this up, I decided awhile back to simply upload my raw materials for the 37 games I played and reviewed. Originally, I recorded audio of myself playing so that I could go back through and type out my live reactions and feelings; however, I changed that plan and instead have been just giving everyone the audio itself.

Note that during the long reviewing process, I wound up changing some of my goals and recording+playing methods. Therefore, your review may or may not contain the following elements:

• Good, clear audio talking about your game.
• Terrible, spotty audio talking about your game.
• References to +1 and -1 etc. (which I had originally used for part of my review process for judging -- before the vote time ended).
• Concise descriptions of what I like and don't like.
• Long rambles about what I like and don't like. $:^ P
• Emotive grunts and hurrahs.
• Outspoken aggravation at some game-breaking bug(s).
• Disqualification (from my competition judgment/vote) for copyright infringement.
• Unrelated tangents from my mind wandering.
• An extra text file or recorded "post script" stating more about the game as an afterthought -- after I thought I'd finished reviewing.
• Long spans of time with no real audio -- which usually means I was quite engrossed into your game! Good job there if so! $;^ ]
• Long spans of time with terrible, spotty audio, in which you can tell I'm trying to tell you something, but I didn't do a good job recording. Wow, sorry if this is the case for yours. $:^ (

This link ( http://www.mediafire.../?67g4j40c2xwn2 ) will take you to my list of all the reviews. You can download yours -- along with anyone else's in case you're curious and/or want to compare. $:^ J

If you would like me to replay and re-review your game -- either because my audio is atrocious or because you've greatly improved your stuff since that summer jam many moons ago, or even something like somehow I missed something and you have information that you feel would change my whole view of your project -- just let me know, and I'll see what I can do. ~nodnod~

Many regards,