A puzzle-platformer with a trans-dimensional window keeping the worlds connected.
Controls:
Mouse: Move the trans-dimensional window WAD: Move/Jump the green player Arrows: Move/Jump the purple player R: Restart level Left Click: Trigger levers (green player) Right Click Trigger levers (purple player) ESC: Exit game
Install instructions
You need Java to run the game. Get it at https://java.com/download Then run the game by clicking the .jar file or by console command java -jar "Through the Trans-Dimensional Window.jar"
Wow, that's cool! Very challenging to juggle all the controls and the tiny window, but it's pretty rewarding to solve each room. Unfortunately, I think I hit a dead end on the big stairway room because I sent the first guy through before the second guy was able to get out. Great work!
I like the use of a Fringe reference as the central mechanic. I was a little confused about what to do at first before I realized that the player was the little rectangle. I'm impressed with what you were able to do with the minimalist art and I like the transdimensional window idea a lot.
Nice idea. Level 3 or 4, I don't know, I catch the key with the window and go to black door, so my first guy don't have any key to open the gate, so, I stuck here. just put an "reset level.
That was really cool! I wish that that controls had been a little easier, since it felt like I needed three hands, but towards the later levels I got why you did it that way. Also, it would have been nice to have keybindings and/or instructions in the game. I quit and had to restart before I saw the note about using the mouse for levers. So it goes.
Nice job, though there was a few issues with the next level starting, and had to restart. Great idea to view the other world with the mouse-controlled window.
Interesting take on the theme! Pretty good minimalistic puzzler. My gameplay got a sudden end when I somehow lost the dimensional window somewhere outside the game area and couldn't move it back to the gameplay area anymore. Some button to reset it back to the level or something could be useful.
Great idea, basic on the general principal of two world interaction but the window and the flow of this one, create a powerful game feel. Some mechanisme are hard to understand, but the look/sound are so great that we could play hour. The switch between the deux controllers is the weak part of the game, because it's build for three hands (two control and the mouse).
But what a great ground to make a powerful game grown.
Love the concept! I included it in part 19 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/ljAqElzAd_Q
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Thanks guys for all the feedback :)
Level 3 or 4, I don't know, I catch the key with the window and go to black door, so my first guy don't have any key to open the gate, so, I stuck here. just put an "reset level.
And nice plot twist at the end.
I might be using the wrong java version. which one should I use?
Especially interesting when I had to have an enemy pick up a key in one world, and send it to the other one to use it!
Thanks! :)
Some mechanisme are hard to understand, but the look/sound are so great that we could play hour.
The switch between the deux controllers is the weak part of the game, because it's build for three hands (two control and the mouse).
But what a great ground to make a powerful game grown.