The Story: You play an astronaut that is flying to space the next day. You go to a bar, drink a lot. You wake up and realise that you overslept. You manage to get to the rocket but have only 10 seconds left. You climb the rocket but it's too late. You get caught in a rope and here starts the actual game...
Controls: Click and hold left mouse button to move the player. Grab stuff you need with your hands, don't get hit!
Not my jam this time. A lot of frustrating difficulties. At one moment my chair broke :D
I had the grand vision that you would travel through space and encounter more and more hazards and get new status bars on the side. Temperature, radioactivity, hunger, etc.
It's a bit unclear where the helmet/health needs to hit in order to be collected - like helmet to head makes sense, but the health would often hit the body and just bounce away. It's also frustrating that collecting health destroys the helmet.
It would be cool to see this expanded in the way you're thinking - more status bars. Nice effort
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Pixelboy_8528 Aug 2013, 08:14
You have to catch everything with the hands, not the head :)
Ohhhhhhh... ha ha, I couldn't tell. I'll have to play again with that in mind. Maybe it was misleading because the head is much larger than the rest of his body? Maybe if his hands grabbed at objects it would become clearer?
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Pixelboy_8528 Aug 2013, 14:08
Yeah, you're right. There is a lot I could improve to make things clearer, but I won't :D I don't think I can make this a good game. I learned a lot with this project though. Check out my other games for a bit more fun.
The first time a space helmet fell out of the rocket, konked me in the head, and broke the helmet I was wearing made me laugh. Same goes for the first time I realised you can stay at the far left and be invincible...until I got smoked by a meteor. Kinda sucks that health crates can damage you, but realistically, it makes sense. Pointy corners and whatnot.
It's a bit unclear where the helmet/health needs to hit in order to be collected - like helmet to head makes sense, but the health would often hit the body and just bounce away. It's also frustrating that collecting health destroys the helmet.
It would be cool to see this expanded in the way you're thinking - more status bars. Nice effort