sfernald sank his teeth into the game engine for my LD#16 entry – the light in the end of the tunnel and the results came out swinging!
He’s used the game engine better then then me, making some winding, fun, hard to beat, acid-filled caves.
Check it out:
Source: http://www.bitjets.com/thelight2.zip
Win32 exe: http://ippa.se/games/the_light_2.exe
Maybe I’ll make a sequel too since the original game was so tiny. Actually I already started hacking on it. Some ideas/goals:
- The collision detection wasn’t perfect (for example you couldn’t jump while running into an obstacle)
- I’m thinking level-building from One big image instead of several small, but there’s quite some things to work out before that’s possible.
- More interaction with the world, could be levels to pull, buttons to push, doors, modification of terrain or living enemies, not just acid pools/drops. Preferable additions that don’t complicate the level building to much, now it’s basically drawing a new image and creating one class — liberating easy.