Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Seasons change and so does gameplay. Move from season to season to find your way to temporal singularity. Or is it nirvana? Who knows.
How to run: java -jar wol.jar
Controls: left-right arrow keys to move, up arrow to jump.
Implemented features: * Platform challenge, find your way to the centre * Seasons affect gameplay * Radial movement in four directions * Gravity * Jumping * Imperfect collision detection (buggy and slow, but gets the job done) * Colourful background * Colourful character
Would be nice to have, but time seems to be running out: * Extending gameplay, branching maze, essentially more platforms to jump on * Optimising collision detection (walls shouldn't be sticky or penetrable)
Goals too far to reach: * Moving platforms * Textures, sprites etc * Sounds * Environmental particle effects * NPCs * Smooth gameplay
Sourcecode is included in the jar file.
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A post-competition port to Android is now also available. The port was not done solo, so that's why it does not comply with competition rules.
Web version is a good idea, also I suggest using an existing framework and not spending time on writing collision detection ;) So next time I think I'll go for Dart and Phaser.
Nice game that could be so much fun if the collision detection was that little bit better and the seasonal effects were slightly more pronounced. Cool level design though.
About frameworks/collision detection - you should probably make a fully functional simple engine from scratch once, so you could easily do the same if you'll need in future. Then, you're free to use any framework you prefer, without even thinking about those low-level gears, that keep game running :)
Yeah, I see what you mean about the collision detection. I fell through floors two or three times, but not usually during the big important jumps. Overall it was easy to figure out how to play the game, through it took me until Winter until I noticed the effects of each world at all. I think out of all of them, I liked Autumn the most.
I love this game, if only because it works so well and annoys the hell out of me when I miss a jump. It's really cool and hope it can be expanded later
Nice little platformer, though from the mention about different seasons I expected a bit more variety. ^^" I wonder, will the world be much larger in the Post-Compo version? You mentioned NPCs, too...
Thank you all for your nice comments! At nights I'm now seeing dreams about collision detection, huge rotating worlds, snowmen, butterflies, pixel art, smooth curves, rings, circles, polar coordinates, Xbox controllers, Steam controllers, Android gamepads, HTML 5, achievements, storyline that really has an impact, believable female characters and online gameplay. Or perhaps just a bit bigger world.
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Really looking forward to seeing where this ends up going :3
I had fun with it. : )
I wonder, will the world be much larger in the Post-Compo version? You mentioned NPCs, too...
Or perhaps just a bit bigger world.