Mission Mars

Cool concept. Great job.

I got to the boss fight! It's hard to figure out the jumping at first: you have to just lightly tap as you run. Once you get the hang of that it's really fun. The anti-gravity levels were pretty stressful. Nice job!

Great job! I like the art :)

Nice concept! But I can't figure out how to pass the level with an empty room.

Try to Jump (Up Arrow)

Great idea. Fun to play!

Had a lot of fun playing :) Great job, man.

Are you sure all images you used were made by you during the compo?
This is a pretty cool concept, albeit kinda weird at first (especially the controls take some getting used to).

A very interesting game, I love the humor behind it, and it fits realy well with the theme, the graphics suck though, but somehow it works with the game

Pretty moody, and I like the alarm sound :) But it's really annoying that you have to sit through the entire intro sequence and redo all levels every time you die. Or did I miss something?

I enjoyed it! The controls could use some tightening, but still pretty good and not game-breaking. Good job :)

I liked it, but the platforming controls were a little finicky for my tastes. Notably the jumping and at the tops of ladders. The amount of time the character would spend in the air seemed to randomly differ with no real indication as to why. Nice use of the 10 second theme, though.

There is an indicator of the gravity in level where it changes.
This is intentional that you start from the start. You can pass the intro by holding E or Enter.

funny one but i'd like to have an immediate retry after you die..

@rujo @Frozen Fractal : I've made the game skip the intro when clicking on `Try Again` - I don't want to make the user restart the same level but want to keep that old-school hard-core style :)

Pretty nice platforming controls, feels tight and fast as opposed to some other slow & heavy feeling platformers. Anti-gravity levels were very neat.

Awesome platformer, could use checkpoints at key levels for the faint of heart (like yours truly)... wicked sick otherwise :P

needs to be a larger windows ..

You can zoom with your browser (Ctrl + , or CMD +)

I liked the atmosphere of constantly being in danger of suffocation... or some other kind of evil unpleasant presence.... + for sounds

A great game! I found it frustrating having to repeat all of the levels to get back to the boss fight, but you have already said that is intentional. ;)

One thing I really didn't like was the bullet shield in the boss fight; there is no indication of when it is about to disappear! Making it flash for a second or so would fix this.

Oh, two more things:

The level with the horizontal force needs some graphical indicator of why you get pushed to the side; that one always catches me out.

The 'Try again' button on the completion page does not seem to work.

Thanks for your feedback!
About the boss level I'm aware it is not very polished.. I actually had just 3 hours left to make that entire boss level :( That's still a shame on me to not having made that little polish at the end (that would have taken like 10 minutes). Anyway I was very tired at the end :)

Good guy greg LOOOOL nice dialogues and art. Character movement is a bit buggy, but good enough.

I should mention that I am only telling you these little things because I thought it was a great game in all. Well done. :)

The shifting gravity is awesome! First time I've seen that concept I think!
I kept dying over and over on level 11. It seemed to be the wind blowing me off the platform or something. I did manage to beat that once and got 3 or for levels after that but I still couldn't beat 11 the next time.
The game is small and to the point, with unique concept and keeps player interest very well. I'll definitely try to finish it eventually!

Haha, funny game. Quickly becomes quite hard. Love the story (and that there is a story!)

Nice game. It does get very hard. But it's short, so no big deal repeating once you die. Nice entry.

Also, that was quite the intro.

Good job, I liked that different rooms had different physics, although sometimes a bit unpredictable.

Man, the fact that you have to restart every time you die is really unforgiving, and the boss fight is very difficult as well, didn't actually kill the boss, since I had to restart when he killed my. Good job on the idea and the rest of the implementation though!

Will post video review when ready.

Haha, great intro, I had a good laugh! Pretty fun game! Would be nice to start at the level you died when continuing though.

Very tricky - the old school style is nice, but I would have preferred checkpoints because I didn't want to keep on re-doing my old work in order to beat the game. Overall quite enjoyable, good job

Interesting platforming mechanics, though I'm not a fan of restarting the entire game. I thought by "start at the beginning" you needed to restart each level. :/

Nice game, really felt that urgency.

good job

hahaha! Nice John Williams reference on the siren there!!!
This is just as hardcore as I like my games! ZX spectrum kind of hardcore!

Funny game! The audio is a little annoying but helps building up a tense mood, which I thought was nice!

I couldn't beat it, though, like you said it's very hard! =P

Quite funny game.

Great concept and art

Good guy John :-) Writing is funny, and the theme is well-represented.

Interesting (and random) game. I got to the boss a couple times but could never finish him. Any tips? He eventually just spams like crazy with 100 balls on screen and kills me.

The physics and rooms are a little weird and unpredictable, resetting the whole game on death seems a little punishing for this fact due to all the trial and error. Overall, a fun experience for me.

Thanks for trying to beat the boss! I'm sorry if it's that difficult, I didn't had time to polish it enough (it definitely need feedbacks on hit and life),

So what you don't see is:
- you have 3 lifes, the boss have 10 lifes. (that's too much I know!)
- the pad is alternating each 5 seconds, and if you don't have it, you can be hit by a ball and lose one life.
- you have to touch him with 10 balls to beat him! (less would have been better, shame on me)

Don't try too much that's hard and there is not really an ending in my story. I was really running out of time and didn't manage enough well my time!

I found this game pretty cool, I found the other guy doing our job weird and difficult. I featured it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you would like to check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgU2Iicu2g

With better graphics you can sell it :)

The physics / graphics were buggy and that was distracting and irritating. I didn't like spacebar to cycle thru the chat. I don't think the chat was really necessary and didn't add much for me. Art was meh. Keep at it though!

Art is cool. I like the hand drawn avatars.

I loved the sounds and the intro.. but I'm very bad jumping :(

Fine effort. Brutal but fine. Nice one.

Solid platformer.

it has made me change my mood, it is a funny game. Best of it is the story and how is told.
Great!