Spike: The Egyptian Curse

Spike the egyptians curse is my second competition02 game, and it plays similar to the Legend of Zelda (yes the first game) with graphics that where created 100% by me, but looks like they would easily fit it LoZ. Overall there are 5 dungeons spread out across Egypt, 3 for the main game and 2 to explore after you have defeated the main quest. You can battle with 3 weapons, a sword, bow and arrow, and bombs. However the bow and arrows and bombs must be found.

Story:

Spike was no ordinary child, he was born on the day of the great festival, the festival of the Gods, and always seemed to miss evil. 30 Days after his birth, Spike was harmlessly playing, when he stumbled into a bush of cactuses, miraculously he came to no harm, and that is how he was named.

12 years had past, and again the festival was on. Spike was out in the waste lands, practising some attacks on cactuses for the great parade he would take part in. Little did he or anyone else know that the parade would never go on…

In a great flash, the people of Egypt turned into the animal they most resemble, most went mad and they started to attack each other. However, Spike stayed sane, he looked at himself with disbelief and told himself he would fix everything.

But the curse affected more than Spike realised, The strongest creatures created new powerful weapons and took other holy buildings.

Link:
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/33649

Screens:






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Version info:
Version 2, created with Game maker 7

It was alright, really wish it had a minimap though.

Only things that need work are:

Movement: it seemed a little laggy.
Navigation: A minimap or something to help - not a fan of those wandering around type games.

Overall 8/10.

Edit: 9/10

Oh, and, not to do with the game, but your sig is completely off. 98% is highly exaggerated.

Thanks, im thinking of a minimap, but then it would take away half the fun as finding the temples are a big part of the game itself. Also the movement shouldn't feel laggy, it works fine on my competiton.

And about my sig, yeah it does sound a over exaggerated, but i didnt make the sig. Anyway im changing my sig soon.

Thanks for the great rating of 8/10

Well if it was my pc that had laggy movement, then I can't deduct anything for that.

my rating system is normally weird: for each negative thing I deduct 1 from a 10/10. So I'll edit my last post.

And as for the exploring, optional minimap?

Try this game, gmc.

hmm.. mabey il add a button that opens up a minipap.
but it wont show things like dungeons....

Wow Meziathol, another game from you. I'll be sure to play it when i return from the real-world.
Hold on a sec.. bombs..? In ancient Eypt?

yeah lol.
In the beggining of the story it says that they created new powerful weapons... (bombs in mind)
but still... i know it sounds mad!

Well I've played it and I have to say it's good. The graphics are retro, as you say they are, the music is very good, the gameplay is quite difficult from the start but not frustrating and you have a decent storyline!
I'm looking forward to a sequel!

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Nice story, but looks like a Zelda clone. Ever played the original?

aaaaaaaaaugh I had a longish reply written and I accidentally pressed back on my mouse. I will summarise it:

-I like the graphics/character of the game.
-The programming and maybe the design let it down.
The movement is really glitchy. Make it good! A good starting point is (step event) if (keyboard_check(vk_left)) {x+=3}
The enemies randomly appearing right on you (or really close to you) can be kind of dumb. They should probably appear farther away, to make it seem more fair. Also, the difficulty at the start of the game is kind of high. Those enemies should probably go slower.

Evaluation: I would like this game to be well-programmed so I can enjoy the cute story and graphics.

Thanks guys. I will do my best to fix the glitches after the competiton.

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Worth trying. The graphics were excellent for the retro theme, and music was alright. I liked the intro pictures and stuff, nice way of telling the story. When you die, you should make the player go back to the menu instead of exiting the game. I had to keep on loading the game over and over. The major flaw here was the balance: it was just way too hard. Enemies on the overmap appear right in front of you, it's hard to hit them when they're attacking you, and they kill you way too fast in my opinion.

I only got to one dungeon, which took me about five tries to even get there. I died on the boss, which was extremely hard to hit with just your sword without getting hit yourself. The dungeon design wasn't really the best either. Overall, this game has the potential to be quite good I think, the balance just needs some simple tweaking. I really look forward to future versions if these things are fixed.

thanks.

I like the sequel better

I wonder why
Thanks again for all the help with the sequel

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Good game.

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