The theme kind of stymied me so I entered it into an anagram generator. The one that stood out was Lo Eye Gun No Toy. And who only gets one eye? A CYCLOPS! So this is the adventure of the cyclops Eyyegon who is trying to rescue his family from the evil El Tony and his minions.
edited: replaced link to make the game a zip instead of gamemaker installer, no changes made to game
edit2: spoiler space dont read until you tried at least once to figure it out on your own
hint ahead:
hint 1: You can right click to to detach the eye after you start moving, if you do that hitting ledges no longer stops your motion and you slide much further.
hint 2: teeter totter launchers shoot further based on how fast you are going when you fall on them
The controls are a bit weird, it would have been nice to just have the pull action automatic maybe? left click and hold shoots and pulls maybe. using left clicking for two separate actions was odd
I like the idea of the mechanic and the story made me laugh, but the drag-yourself-around mechanic feels a bit tedious in practice, unfortunately :/ could do with a bit of jinking around to get it to feel smoother?
I really liked this. Very different, and fun to figure out the puzzles. After about fifty tries I did give up on the end boss. I figured that I had to get up onto the platform to get to the rocks, but I never got above ground level, despite many, many, MANY attempts. I couldn't seem to chain eye-swings together, and the large collider around my body kept... arg. I guess I just did it wrong.
Considering how stripped-down this was, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
You get an extra plus on the graphics and simple game-play. Maybe I'm not quite the puzzle-solver but dropping a gunman after having introduced the solution (going around) and not having any way around was a bit of a downer. Gave up there.
I like the gameplay. I got stuck at the last level though. I feel that thinks could have gone a lot better if you could swing on the eye for a bit instead of having it lose grip instantly once you get there.
Great game :D I really like the idea^^ The game plays quite well, but I really needed to remind myself of the slide-feature, when detaching the eye. This slide also feels a bit unnatural, but it's predictable, so it wasn't a big problem. Great work!
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But I wonder how do these cyclops move without this eyeball artifact?)
Also normal cyclopsesse have arms and legs so they dont need to use their eyeball as a grappling hook
Thank you for playing!
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc492/Tuskus/eyegun_zps8e3d51a4.png
I should be checking for 2 collision lines at the outside radius of the eye
Considering how stripped-down this was, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
I really like the idea^^ The game plays quite well, but I really needed to remind myself of the slide-feature, when detaching the eye. This slide also feels a bit unnatural, but it's predictable, so it wasn't a big problem.
Great work!