MiniLD #72 : elympics — hosted by dollarone — February 2017
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A deviously hard platformer, with the aim of getting to the top of the tower as fast as possible.
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S to jump, press S again to double jump, Left/right to move.
M to mute music. R to quick-restart the level.
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So, this is my first Ludum Dare, and the first time I've actually shared a game with others, and I am very happy with the result. Thank you all for commenting and playing, I kinda messed up the level design, making difficulty an issue, putting people off. I guess it was me and a few friends being huge fans of games with high difficulty, which I guess made sense with the competitive feel of the LD topic, but I should have made it much more arcade-like.
This LD has motivated me to take part in many more in future, so hopefully, I'll learn from this experience and make something much better for you guys in future.
No matter the score, I'm very grateful that you played my game, thank you for all your feedback and thank you for playing~!
(If you want to see what I make in future, or see the creation process of these games, or just chat, swing by my Twitter. I'm always active. @Bedstuck)
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The game looks really good, but feels a bit punishing right from the start.
I like the super meat boy vibe. Hope you work on this game more!
Hey guys, thanks a ton for all the feedback! I've made a few bug fixes, but I'm gonna try and refine this game as much as possible before the deadline. Thanks for playing!
Somewhat punishing, but still amazing! Love the art and hope to see this developed further :D
It was really hard. It reminds me of a game made from the user ulixava a few years ago. I got a 410 seconds and I thought I was doing good.
Man you guys on the highscore are insane! 20 seconds being the current 10th slot makes my score of 180 seconds look impossibly far away from ranking :P
Thanks for including the checkpoints though. I found the first area the most difficult. After clearing that the rest seemed easier to me. Just glad at the moment to have been able to see the end.
wow that was indeed pretty brutal, can't believe my 60s didn't even make the top 10. Anyway fun game, the hardest bit does seem to be right at the beginning though and almost put me off. Liked the art, and the music adds a bit of ambience. All good
Just wow. I would really want to see someone mastering this game. Excellent work!
awesome! I love the pixel art, really has a great atmosphere and the music works perfectly.
difficulty is brutal though, as dollarone said. but nothing wrong with that :)
This is a little, but polished platformer game with pretty responsive controls, so I like it. It is really intentional that the timer is starting on the first orb?
It is a tried and true formula and so much fun! Learning the limits of the controls (super fast double jump is key) and mastering each checkpoint individually to finally put it all together feels amazing.
Simple, well made fun. Good job!
Great game. Though, I have a bug to report;
If you are able to make it to the top without hitting the first checkpoint, you will get '0' on your time.
Hey Erokaution! Thanks for the report, yeah there's a lotta people that have abused that lmao, it's been on my to-fix list for a while now, but only just got around to it.
The collision box for the orbs is now taller, and there should be no way to skip the first orb.
Thanks to everyone else for the feedback, i love you mwah x
nice game, great graphics and great music. This kind of platform games are really cool to get some plays and try to beat the scores. But I am far from the top 10 ^^ 30 seconds :D toooooo slow man.
This game was fun even if it was a bit unfair... anyway my first try i finished it in around 60 seconds... not a bad game at all.
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Man this game is BRUTAL :D
very nice game for a first one! Jumps are a bit quick for my taste but you've added checkpoints, which is great.
I'll try again to climb a bit higher...