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[icymx]

Capsule of Light is a game I made for the first-ever bi-weekly jam, hosted by DanRedux. The competition gives developers a whole week to make their games, but thanks to school I only had one weekend to make my game.

My game is a platformer set in a time when the humans accidentally stole all the light from the sun, and you are a robot that must retrieve a capsule that will restore the light back. Some screenshots:







The game can be downloaded here:
http://bit.ly/CapsuleOfLight

Comments are welcome. Enjoy!

PS. This is my first game. Ever. Be nice

Edited by icymx, 20 May 2012 - 05:15 AM.

[Jasher]

Played it!
I liked the lighting.
it's fun for a weekend game.
Nice and short.

But it can't compete with a month long game
But you already knew that I'm just being a meany XD

[icymx]

Thanks for your comment!

The other games were made in a week, not a month - but I made this in about 8 hours. I'm glad you liked it.

Oh, and you can thank Nocturne for the lighting.

[mAnIk800]

Graphics were a bit simple but i know you had a short time to make it so that ok, i don't really think the music matches the game tbh or that could just be me, but the engine was built nicely and the lighting was pretty cool effect. Also the level design was pretty good too.
Good work

mAnIk

[icymx]

Graphics were a bit simple but i know you had a short time to make it so that ok, i don't really think the music matches the game tbh or that could just be me, but the engine was built nicely and the lighting was pretty cool effect. Also the level design was pretty good too.
Good work

mAnIk

Thanks for your comment. I agree that the graphics were a bit simple but I only spent around 8 hours on the game, which explains a lot
Also, it's funny that you said the music didn't fit because somebody else said that it fits perfectly xD
As for the engine, in my opinion there could be a lot of improvements, like variable jumping for example. Although, it is fine as far as the game goes, I guess. The lighting was just copied off of one of Nocturne's examples.
The game drew 7th with a few other entries, although in reality there were more than 10 entries above it due to the large number of draws in the competition

Thanks for your comment, glad you liked it

[chance]

Nice little game. Simple and short, but fun. I had a bit of trouble with the jumping... but that's just me being uncoordinated.

The character and environmental graphics were pretty basic, but I understand you only had a short time to make it. Are you planning another version with expanded graphics and levels? Might be worth it, since people seemed to like the game.

Also, for some reason the music didn't play for me. However, I could play the included .mp3 files just fine in my media player (winamp). Just not inside the game.

[icymx]

Thanks

I was actualy planning to leave it as is, but now I think about it it might be a good idea to do a new version. I've improved dramatically at spriting since I made this game (although I'm still not fantastic), so I might completely redo the graphics and make more levels.

That's strange about the music, it seemed to work fine for everyone else. Probably a problem on my end, I'll look into it xD

I'm glad people liked this game, as it's actually the first I've released. Thanks for playing

[icymx]

I've added a blog post concerning the remake of the game, but I haven't had enough time to get started on it yet.

[lemon405]

Your game is awesome!
★★★★★

[icymx]

@lemon405 thanks! You do realize this was made in just 8 hours though, right?

[lemon405]

@lemon405 thanks! You do realize this was made in just 8 hours though, right?

thought it was only made 8 hours
it's awesome XD
I have 2 games too but yours better than mine lol