Crated is a jumping-based platformer where everything(except the sky) is created out of crates and your goal is to get to the "home" cube(it has an H on it)
GamePlay: A, D and Space to move; Escape to pause
Editor: WASD to move scroll wheel to switch between blocks LMB to place block RMB to break block Arrow keys to rotate cannons Escape to pause the blocks with the red rectangle around them is the player spawn
It's a good attempt, but you should work on the controls in general. It feels really awkward to not be able to control yourself in the air in a platformer. It also makes even the very first 2 jumps in the game really annoying.
For whatever reason, the game won't even start when I double click on the .jar, and the batch file gives me an error, saying "Java" isn't an executable file. If it helps, I'm on Windows 7.
I'm impressed with the platforming physics. The jump-run height trade off would actually make for a deep game, if finished. Is this an issue on my end, but it's playing really slow for me: ubuntu 12.04-3.60ghz? Am I missing a library?
-Gravity Games: Do you have Java? -William Bundy: when you are playing(not in a menu) the game will print out (a number) Ticks if that number is close to 40 it is running fine(unless you were talking about FPS) and no its not a missing library
The level selection screen is somehow bugged or I don't understand it. I like that everything is crates. If it would be polished a little bit more, especially the controls and the levels, it would be a nice platformer (and maybe beatable too).
The game as too much inertia for my tastes, the crate with arrows on them is good idea, but I could not go very far in the game. I was already trying very hard dying every 10 seconds then the game sent me on a black screen with a very punishing "you failed" & no way to restart. It was a bit rude :D Apart of that the platform engine itself is pretty clean.
Level 4 was quite tricky but I finally got the timing right. I couldn't select blocks in the editor with the mouse wheel and was only able to place blocks (WinXP, Java 1.7). Being able to save mid level is maybe excessive but together with the level editor it feels very complete.
Comments20
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/thepattybeastlabs/ld26/LD26Launch : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
also aglie updating java should fix it
-William Bundy: when you are playing(not in a menu) the game will print out (a number) Ticks if that number is close to 40 it is running fine(unless you were talking about FPS)
and no its not a missing library
I couldn't select blocks in the editor with the mouse wheel and was only able to place blocks (WinXP, Java 1.7).
Being able to save mid level is maybe excessive but together with the level editor it feels very complete.