Bottoms Up!

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Community★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★1%
After coming so far, link finds that he is so close to the castle, yet must overcome a few obstacles. With the help of his trusty cape, he sets off on what is to be an epic adventure.

Can you make it to the castle? Probably...But it will take you time!

Spacebar to change the gravity.

Alternatively, (A) on an xbox pad. (The game has 360 support)

This is the first time I have build a full game from scratch and my first (of many) Ludum Dare. Thanks for testing my game, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Fatality674
Adam Faldo
adamfaldo.co.uk

Comments15

excrulon1 May 2011, 20:36
inspired by a boss in wow...?
fatality674author1 May 2011, 21:56
Sorry, I don't follow. I play wow but have no idea what you mean :D
TellusE2 May 2011, 03:30
Hey Adam, I can't start the game. Barring my distrust (hate is such a strong word) for ClickOnce installers it just dies on me before ever starting :-/

Can get you a crash report if need be.
fatality674author2 May 2011, 15:19
If you wouldn't mind sending a report that would be fantastic. I have tried it on multiple computers and it worked. just extract the rar to your desktop and install from there. If that doesn't work I don't know what will.

Thanks for the heads up.
quickfingers
quickfingers2 May 2011, 15:54
nice game, only thing is its waaay too hard for me! very unforgiving hit boxes, but good concept
athanazio
athanazio3 May 2011, 02:16
sorry only can evaluate web or mac :\
TellusE3 May 2011, 21:36
fatality674: found the problem.

The game also requires Windows Media Player to be installed. I hate the program so I feverishly remove it every time I install Windows. Activated it and the problem was gone :)

F'in HARD game, man! The graphics were missing quite a bit of direction, but although the style was all over the place I couldn't help but be in a very safe place every time I looked at that plant life... blue... cool... colours...

And the music was pretty good, too.
fatality674author4 May 2011, 00:58
For the graphics I aimed to have a smooth "cartoony" art direction, Just didnt want blocky characters. The bold colours were a must. This is all I could come up with using my limited skills in photoshop :)

Thanks for the comment and for figuring out the problem. Didnt realise it would need WMP. Did you manage to clear it in the end?
Dark Acre Jack4 May 2011, 06:05
Nice twist in the intro, and the allowance for gamepads was nice.

Not the biggest fan of "do it again, silly" mechanisms, but I could see the appeal for other players.

Congrats on finishing the Ludum Dare!
DivideByZero7 May 2011, 15:49
Very nice animations, quite challenging too but also addictive.
Kynrael7 May 2011, 17:52
Too hard for me !
Interesting take on the theme though.
Switchbreak
Switchbreak8 May 2011, 21:11
Interesting, way too difficult for me. The bounding boxes on the collision seem to be very unforgiving. Not sure if using the Zelda theme jives with the rules of the competition.
mwest
mwest11 May 2011, 20:18
Looks quite nice - well done on finishing something!

The difficulty just made go aaarrRRGH!!! :P
KermAmrek
KermAmrek14 May 2011, 00:52
VVVVVVV Much? It was ok but I didn't understand where the hamster came into the equation.

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