Join our miniature archaeologist as he journeys into the depths of Montezuma's Tomb in search of treasure and the golden statue that is said to lie at the bottom of the tomb. How is this a Tiny World you might ask? Well ... I've managed to fit all of the great Montezuma's Tomb into a 1024x768 box which is pretty small...unless you play it on a 50" HDTV - but then everything is big on one of those.
Instructions: Available in-game
Important Note: Your character can fall roughly twice as far when he jumps so keep that in mind when/if you reach certain areas...
Warning: This game is a bit difficult in its current state... Ease-ification will occur post-compo.
Update #2: I've found a few bugs in the jumping code and have fixed them. V 0.3 is much more consistent with jumping AND you can jump onto adjacent ledges from a standstill. Also added inventory boxes.
I like how you fit so much into one screen. Feels exactly like a Tiny World with all the stuff going on.
It was too hard, though. There's nothing wrong with giving the player few easy successes first. Now I just quit in rage after awhile. The Game Over is also a bit pointless. It could just go on forever.
Also like how it fits on one screen like an ant box. Controls are a bit weired. I have problems jumping left and right.
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Cambrian_Man23 Apr 2012, 22:08
Ahh, super old school. Brutal, though. I might take another crack at it later. A few new-school concessions like infinite lives might've actually made it more enjoyable in the rushed LD context. Still, I keep wanting to go back and play it again so...
I keep getting stuck at the bottom of ladders, and the only way to get unstuck is restart. This happens in both the compo and jam versions. The game looks fun, though. I like the sounds and the oldschool feel.
The jumping controls seem unfairly specific for such an already difficult game. I would look into allowing a person to jump onto an adjacent ledge from a standstill. As it is currently, you have to build momentum first, which can be very difficult on narrow ledges. Otherwise, a decent, albeit brutally difficult, game.
It reminded me a single-screen Metroidvania contest ADVA made a couple of years ago: http://www.adva.com.ar/codear/codear-single-screen-metroidvania/ You already know what it's wrong, so I just say that it's a great tribute to a great game. I miss the 8bit music during gameplay. Congrats.
I like how the whole game is in one screen, but it is too hard for me. I gave up after 3 game overs, and only got the first key once, but never got to use it. There were jumping bugs, and I see that there is a fixed version, but that is post compo, so I don't want to play it. Adding checkpoints would be very nice.
I love these kind of games but the controls really killed it for me. The way you slide on the edges, and the difficulty to jump on a platform if you're next to a wall are very frustrating.
Hi recursor! An old school platformer! Simple and effective grafics, funny sounds (the door opening... ¿is that you recursor? :P ), a quest for a treasure... and difficult as trying to kill a donkey pinching him :) I'll give a bunch of tries and to pick the red key is the most far that I advance ¡argh! :(
I like this game a lot and for sure that I'll try again.
Cheers!
PS.-In one of my tries on the platform where the red key is I fall of f beyond the platform when I jump over the skull and theoretically had to fall safely on the same platform again... and was my last live :(
I'm not a huge fan of the controls or the fact that you can die walking off ledges that you can survive with a jump, but other than that it's not bad. Good job!
Nice Donkey-Kong style adventure game... though tremendously difficult due to the game feel on jumps and drops and ledge collision. I liked the sound effects, they suited the visuals. I couldn't quite tell what the white barrels were supposed to be, but they were menacing enemies due to the one-hit kill design. Nice nostalgic game, and it was interesting to see the whole map at one glance. I wish there would have been some music, though. Perhaps one day... I will find Montezuma's treasure.
The only problem I got was dying if I walked of ledges but survived if I jumped, it felt a little of, that's all. Besides that I really enjoyed it, I love platformers and yours is pretty nice.
The sounds and graphics didn't fit together. It was unforgivingly difficult. Often times I randomly slid off platforms. If you fall off a platform, you die but if you jump from a higher height, you live. None of it made sense. So overall, I hate this game.
Difficult game! But really good, and the "retro" feel, was really well made. One of the few games I had (but this time, actually wanted) to view in fullscreen. The only thing that really annoyed me was that when you were against a wall, and keep pressing left or right, when you jump it would do it just straight. So, grabbing the knife at the beginning was harder than grabbing the key. Nevertheless overall, really good!
I played it last night on my laptop, having some issues with the unity player on my work mac (would be nice to have a straight downloadable). Lots of fun in a frustrating way, old school feel where the jumps have to be exactly right. The bugs kind of kill it, but it makes it more of a challenge, I feel like I HAVE to beat this now.
Pretty cool game, but a couple of tweaks will make it much better. I would say to make a moving jump easier to execute and to kill a person if the run off a ledge.
It was too hard, though. There's nothing wrong with giving the player few easy successes first. Now I just quit in rage after awhile. The Game Over is also a bit pointless. It could just go on forever.
But overall it's a nice complete working game.