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[Ninja Dodo]

My brother and I made this game for Molyjam 2012 last month. Created in 48 hours. We built it in GM8 and then ported it over to HTML5.



Play it here: http://www.ninjadodo...yjam2012/html5/

Rob your enemies of their momentum!

Controlled with ARROW KEYS and SPACE (plus R to reset). The game was inspired by the tweet: "What if the pause button was a weapon? Until developers think outside the box we're going downhill."

Edited by Ninja Dodo, 14 December 2012 - 03:46 PM.

[OMGCarlos]

I didn't think you meant "Rob your enemies of their momentum" literally haha so it took me a minute to figure out. Awesome job, the levels get hard quick!

[Ninja Dodo]

Thanks!

[Smarty]

This is actually a very novel idea, and - at times it works out as a strategy, and at other times as action. The action part can be a bit tricky because it requires accurate timing sometimes. I do feel that the rather tight collision masks are somewhat limiting on the player experience. In fact, the platforming element in itself also leaves a something to be desired, it's a bit unforgiving. But given the 48 hours, what can you expect. It would be nice to see it extended into a fuller, more feature-rich game.

Well done on the graphics, they're really good-looking - especially in that short time frame. If you ever find the time to build this idea out then I'd suggest working on the animations a bit, because at times it is difficult to spot if a pirate actually dies or not - it's just a pirate bobbing down.

[Ninja Dodo]

Thanks for the feedback!

I do feel that the rather tight collision masks are somewhat limiting on the player experience. In fact, the platforming element in itself also leaves a something to be desired, it's a bit unforgiving.

Do you mean the hitboxes are too unforgiving in that you are missing jumps or in that you are being unfairly hit by enemies or cannons?

[Futhark]

Ahem ... err ... I don't seem to quite "get it"

I mean, I was able to finally get the guy in the first level to run after me, and eventually he fell overboard. The second level is ... well ... just a tad too hard for me

What I haven't quite figured out is what is so special about the PAUSE function (and that is probably why I'm having issues.)

After reading the couple of descriptions in the previous comments, I was expecting the PAUSE to work in such a manner that if I time it correctly and the enemy is in mid-jump then he would fall down (when paused) but apparently it doesn't seem to do anything except just PAUSE the game (I'm using Chrome btw in case that matters(???))

HAYLP?!

[Smarty]

Do you mean the hitboxes are too unforgiving in that you are missing jumps or in that you are being unfairly hit by enemies or cannons?

The latter. Enemies, specifically. The players may need to be cut some slack. Then again, I may just be slow.

[Ninja Dodo]

@Smarty: OK. Maybe this will get tweaked but we'll have to playtest this some more.

@Futhark: Odd that it didn't work for you. I've tested the game on Chrome and apart from some occasional variations in game speed it seemed to consistently work as it does in Firefox.

What the Pause function does is stop all momentum as shown in this video. So if you pause while an enemy is mid-jump over a gap, he will fall down into the water. It could be you were pausing when the enemy was already nearly on the other side... otherwise I'm not sure.

Maybe try the downloadable version?

[Scarecrowman]

Awesome painted artwork!

[chance]

This is a great looking game, so +1 for that. But it was way too hard (for me at least). I couldn't get past the first pirate.

[Overloaded]

Damn, that was quite hard, but I beat all the levels.

[Jakyl11]

took a minute or two to figure out the mechanics.but its a very interesting idea.
i like it.

[Futhark]

@Futhark: Odd that it didn't work for you. I've tested the game on Chrome and apart from some occasional variations in game speed it seemed to consistently work as it does in Firefox.

Woo hoo! Now it works! Cool game :-)

I'm glad the poster above re-discovered this game, I couldn't remember the name of it

[Ruub]

After you find your flow the game seemed rather easy, since I got my flow with the cannon balls only one stayed alive and I barely had to do anything after that. Funny game though, if you would continue it maybe the pause button would cause a slomotion which would give it a little extra.

Also the tweet is silly, just populair opinion based on bias.

[GreekArachnid]

I played your game
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=0WLJjc5ehow