It's a puzzle platformer with portals. The portals act like tunnels: the player places one end of some blocks, and another portal opens at the end of the blocks.
UPDATE: I added an enhanced version!
It features original music from the composer for endeavor, 3 new levels with a new mechanic, a level select screen, a portal-funneling mechanic, and lots of bugfixes.
CONTROLS:
A and D to move
W to jump
Mouse to aim and shoot portals
R to restart a level
Q to return to the main menu
Your character is automatically aligned with the tile grid if you aren't moving left or right. It's much stronger if a portal if a portal is nearby below you. You can use this to make landing in portals easier =D
The instructions were impressively smooth. The game, overall, was very polished and very innovative. The audio contributed to the game, but ambient music would have added more. This game was really impressive, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks for all the positive feedback! I had a lot of fun making this game. I'm working on an enhanced version with a few extra levels, and maybe someday will flesh out the idea further. I'm also having a friend write some music for it (the same person who did the music for endeavor). Thanks for playing it!
Very nice. recommended by your brother. got stuck once, http://i55.tinypic.com/21njx2o.png, and had to restart. A checkpoint system with the ability to return to the most recent checkpoint would be nice. It does seem like you kind of already had the idea planned, and just twisted it to fit the theme, but most games in this compo are like that anyway.
Clever. I got stuck in a wall once, but I guess it happens. Anyway, an enjoyable mechanic, though it's a little apparent you were hoping for a different theme, here.
Very nice game. The momentum bits were a bit annoying sometimes when you didn't line up properly, but still it was a lot of fun to play through. Great game, well done.
Amazing! The portals could be more forgiving, though. It gets a bit frustrating trying to line it up right, even with the auto-correct you have. Instead maybe you could have him go through the portal anyway even if he is off by a bit? Anyway, really cool game and fun puzzles!
This was awesome, a totally complete high class experience. What I fricking hated were the momentum puzzles - conceptually, I really liked them, but the auto-aligning always tried to align me to the wrong tile. Not that it was wrong, I was, but it still led to dozens of attempts for even basic puzzles. Maybe instead of auto-align, it should have "scoop you into a portal if you're close". But I persevered, because it was so interesting, and then came the next kind of challenge, and it got even more interesting! That was after I thought it would've ended, being an LD game. It's 5 stars.
Really good :) Interesting approach to the portal theme. I almost stopped playing at the end of stage 1. Glad I didn't. However I got stuck inside a wall in the house stage. Keep enhancing this, it's a really good mechanic!
I discovered a bug in one of the bonus levels... Despite shooting something which should open the portal, the game insisted that it was an impossible move. :\ But the game is still awesome.
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matthias_zarzecki8 May 2011, 19:33
The "it's over"-screen is as brilliant as it is dangerous. There are probably some people who quit the game at that point.
Really solid. Very well done. The interface would be slightly nicer if the line showing where you are aiming was above the tiles instead of underneath. Perhaps highlighting the tile you will hit in real time would be good. Also, making the portals more forgiving when you are moving at high speeds would probably make things easier without compromising the challenge of the puzzles.
Good game! Surprisingly hard!! Some of the puzzles were a bit too tight to be enjoyable, since part of puzzling for me is trying to figure out clever ways to defeat it, not just finding my way through a very rigid maze. But a very good entry.
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Although, maybe I should just focus on figuring out the puzzles you've already made . . .
Good luck to you!
~Brotide
I got stuck in a wall once, but I guess it happens.
Anyway, an enjoyable mechanic, though it's a little apparent you were hoping for a different theme, here.
*spoiler*:
I love the way the portals allow you to super jump.:)
Absolutely brilliant.
I completely bypassed most of the window levels lol.
Great work, but I'm gonna need a walkthrough to clear it. :)
You twisted and extended the portal mechanics to the point that my face started to hurt. Excellent puzzles for such a short timeframe.
Interesting approach to the portal theme. I almost stopped playing at the end of stage 1. Glad I didn't. However I got stuck inside a wall in the house stage.
Keep enhancing this, it's a really good mechanic!