My entry is inspired by an italian cartoon called "La Linea" or "The Line", where the protagonist is a silhoutte of a man walking on an infinite line. This should be minimalistic enough, right?
It's a very simple and short game, it's a action/platformer...just keep moving forward and remember to use all the controls!
I used HaxeFlixel to develop this game and it was really a challenge since I usually work with Game Maker Studio. Still, I learned a lot!
Very cool idea. Got stuck at the guy throwing projectiles, but I can see this kind of thing being very interesting, especially with spline shapes or vectors.
I also wasn't sure whether I beat the game or not, I thought the blue screen effect meant that I took a water wave to the face, but apparently it means that I hit the guy.
Fantastic visuals, this is really something different! Took me a while to find out that one can switch to the other side of the line. Also, on my qwertz keyboard, the controls are a bit awkward to reach. But other than that this is pretty much perfect - great work!
Great art and concept! Kept falling through the floor though, and wasn't sure what was going on when I hit the wolf with the sword and the screen flashed blue.
This was very good indeed! Captured the minimalist theme quite well while still allowing for gameplay. I was really happy when I found out about shifting the line. Very cool indeed.
I really like the artstyle and the concept in general. However, it wasn't very playable due to the controls (the animation that makes you freeze for quite a while when switching sides and the fact that jumping automatically makes you tavel horizontally makes it really hard to control).
Fun little game. Did I get stuck in an endless winning screen? Great sound and graphics. Controls copuld be improved (jumping was not so intuitive and zxc is bad for German keyboard layout where y is the z)
Interesting idea, one thing that I didn't like was that you had forwards momentum when jumping even if you weren't moving originally. That just made it somewhat unintuitive for me..
I like it. It might lack a little polishing here and there (especially the fighting), but all in all it's a nice minimalist take on "save the princess"-style adventure games.
Seeing the character traverse from one side of the line to the other to dodge obstacles and combat amused me. If you continue to develop this, have you considered exploring the other illusions of the line a little more?
Wow, 5 stars for graphics. That style is really nice and really wel done! And nobody else did a minimal style like this I think. The game worked well for me so I think you know HaxeFlixel well enough.
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@tacograveyard If you reached the end of line, then you beat the game ;)
As you said it's buggy sometime, but it remains a nice small game.
Great sound and graphics. Controls copuld be improved (jumping was not so intuitive and zxc is bad for German keyboard layout where y is the z)
And nobody else did a minimal style like this I think.
The game worked well for me so I think you know HaxeFlixel well enough.
Great game btw.