In this game (which is not quite finished, so please keep that in mind) it is meant to, well... avoid the pushers. Every time the world regenerates, more pushers will spawn, making it harder for you to reach your goal. The difficulty level isn't really increasing yet, and because there is no scoreboard yet (or at least: it isn't shown), it makes it less interesting than I intended.
Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy what I did finish :)
Edit I: + Added Linux download.
Edit II: - Note that this game requires Java. If you do not have java installed yet, I recommend you doing so before you try to run it. Games made in java are awefully difficult to play without java installed.
The Pixel Art and game concept is interesting. It is a little weird that you can go off screen to reach certain buttons. The pushers are cool but don't seem agressive enough, I expected them to push me way more and faster :D Overall, nice game
Nice idea. I like that the pushers are just sort of inconvenient rather than malicious. It's unusual. It looks like the screen should wrap, but you seem to die (or crash the game?) when you go past the edges.
@WhoaConstrictor The mob spawning after each generation is the start of adding a difficulty level. I wanted to make things harder after each generation, e.g. having to stand on the red tile longer, having more mobs and more difficult mobs that will start attacking you etc.
@ElectricSeagull Yeah, the going out of the screen and wrapping of the player is a bug. Fortunately you can walk back and it will render you normally again.
@All thx for the nice comments and feedback, I really appreciate it. This is my second LD and my first submission.
Interesting idea as how the game stars also. Seems to lose my character when I get out of the screen borders. Restart button would be aprecieted. Good work!
Nice one, I liked it… almost skipped it, because there was no OS X download, but the "windows" version played just fine as it is Java. The pushers really crept me out as soon as they run towards you. When I went out of the level on the side it seems to have crashed. Walking two directions at the same time is SO necessary!! ;) I can see the potential!
I found that in many of the worlds that were generated, pushers spawned in walls, and there were a number of cases where my destination appeared on the other side of a wall that I simply could not cross past. Additionally, not being able to move on diagonals felt weird. I don't want to leave you with only negative feedback, so I'll note that you did a good job introducing the game. A lot of LD games either fall back on the giant wall of text to explain their game, but breaking it up into sentences that are displayed one at a time makes the intro feel a little less daunting and easier to get into.
Unfortunately, I think I have experienced the "unfinished" part mostly : got two in a row world with the "red thingy" surrounded by walls (and I didn't figured out a way to reach it), I went off the screen, I get stuck in a wall after a pusher do its thing on me.
The whole was pretty frustrating, because the art is somehow good, and the concept was simple enough to get something good.
I'm sad :( I will wait for the post jam version I guess :(
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The pushers are cool but don't seem agressive enough, I expected them to push me way more and faster :D
Overall, nice game
It looks like the screen should wrap, but you seem to die (or crash the game?) when you go past the edges.
@ElectricSeagull Yeah, the going out of the screen and wrapping of the player is a bug. Fortunately you can walk back and it will render you normally again.
@All thx for the nice comments and feedback, I really appreciate it. This is my second LD and my first submission.
The pushers really crept me out as soon as they run towards you.
When I went out of the level on the side it seems to have crashed. Walking two directions at the same time is SO necessary!! ;)
I can see the potential!
Nice level generation and pushers pathfinding :3
I don't want to leave you with only negative feedback, so I'll note that you did a good job introducing the game. A lot of LD games either fall back on the giant wall of text to explain their game, but breaking it up into sentences that are displayed one at a time makes the intro feel a little less daunting and easier to get into.
The whole was pretty frustrating, because the art is somehow good, and the concept was simple enough to get something good.
I'm sad :( I will wait for the post jam version I guess :(