EDIT: the game now works with IE (100% tested on IE 10.0.15), and should work on Safari and Opera too. Sorry for the inconvenience, and have fun playing it!
IMPORTANT NOTE: It seems like the game will not work on anything besides Chrome or Firefox because of the use a non-standard function. As porting to others 'platforms' is allowed past the submission time, I will have an updated version up by tomorrow I think. Thanks for checking my game anyway, and please come back later ;-) .
In UnderTheLibrary (yes, camelCase is mandatory), you play as a humanoid robot thrown in the basement of a library.
Your ultimate goal is to find a way back to the surface (because let's be honest: being trapped underground is a little bit scary).
On your way, you may find books with some interesting content inside. Collecting them all will yield absolutely nothing.
Neat little platformer, very polished in places, I did keep getting stuck on the first drop following the button, for some reason, if getting too close to the wall? otherwise overall a great game. Love it.
I loved the visual style and the "computing" dialogs :) Unfortunately I didn't reach the end due to getting stuck twice after the first drop. Is this done on GameMaker ? Collision code is a bitch, I should know, I lost about 10 hours with mine this week-end ;)
Thanks for your feedback! I did push this button a lot to playtest the rest of the level (before I remembered about moving my spawnpoint), so I am not too sure about what is happening here. I will try to find out as soon as I come home.
@Seyroth: I used JavaScript and Phaser as my game engine (and that was because I lost So much time with collision code the first time too T_T)
Apparently, this is because I used Math.sign(), which is not supported by all browsers at the moment. Could you please tell me which browser/version yo0 used when encountering the crash ?
This was pretty cool, the art was substantially pleasant to look at and it is a really interesting idea. I seemed to fly through the walls somehow a couple times, which is obviously a bug, but that's not a big deal. Great job!
For some reason it seemed that the collision worked better on the original, maybe it was just a coincidence. Interesting little game, didn't get any books though.
@IcyLava the onyl difference between the two version is that I implemented the Math.sign() function myself on the second version. No collision code was modified, all that is done in the Phaser engine I used.
@Team-Kwakwa that has to do with how Phaser checks for collision. I has the same problem on LD27, and did away with shortening the delay between collision checks. However, it was easier to deal with when I was doing the code myself :S
This game laggs terribly in firefox for me, and in chrome I don't have audio :( But what I heard was well done. Although the dialogs (monologs?) are funny, I wish they were skippable or faster. And I'm not sure if it's supposed to be like this, but I found some books and they didn't seem to be hidden, but rather have been on the way to the end.
@klianc09 the game ran fine on my PC and my Surface RT; then again, it is written in JavaScript :S ... About the audio: I actually forgot to test it again (had some music on while testing), and it seems to not work in IE either. I may look at it, but it seems to be something in the Phaser engine... For the books, at least one is put on the way to the end, and at least one other is really hidden (try searching for rats).
This was a very solid entry. The art is all very fitting. The spiders gave me the creeps. Gameplay was challenging but not impossible. Required some non-linear thought to complete. Good amount of humor: the messages kept me engaged with the story.
Possible ideas for improvement: R to reload from the last checkpoint. Also the first checkpoint where you learn to use book ladders sends you back before you read the text, which is a little annoying since you can't just skip the text outright. None of the others I ran into seemed to have that problem though. You could have made another puzzle to solve as you antigrav'd out. :)
Very polished platformer. Good story and it was just plain fun exploring after you started to pick up various books. My only complaint would be how loose falling left and right were when certain areas required precise controls. Otherwise, great job!
I liked it. Some dialogs are in a bad position because they are located in places where you can die 2 or 3 times and you have to read them each time ,maybe you could find them a better position or deactivate them the first time they are opened.
Fun platformer, though the one thing I could pick a hole in would be the extreme inertia in the air coupled with no inertia on the ground, going down the shaft on the second map was rather annoying...
It's a cute little platformer with nice graphics and an impressive amount of polish, though it was a bit slow and wordy when explaining some of the basic concepts like the enemies. I still had fun with it, though - good job!
Maybe next time try building level in a way so you can see ahead enough without taking a leap of faith. Right now I sometimes just had to walk or fall right into an enemy without actually knowing it was there. Nice little game though.
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Gameplay is not bad and fun to see a game taking place in a library.
@Seyroth: I used JavaScript and Phaser as my game engine (and that was because I lost So much time with collision code the first time too T_T)
Great job, this is a very well-rounded 48 hour entry!
Bonus points for the TPP reference! :D
About the audio: I actually forgot to test it again (had some music on while testing), and it seems to not work in IE either. I may look at it, but it seems to be something in the Phaser engine...
For the books, at least one is put on the way to the end, and at least one other is really hidden (try searching for rats).
Possible ideas for improvement: R to reload from the last checkpoint. Also the first checkpoint where you learn to use book ladders sends you back before you read the text, which is a little annoying since you can't just skip the text outright. None of the others I ran into seemed to have that problem though. You could have made another puzzle to solve as you antigrav'd out. :)
The jump behaviour is a bit odd.
I liked the game
(some collision bug)
The rest is good :)