Riveroboros: A Frogger-em-up-like game where you see everything on one screen. There are no random logs or stones. Anything that goes off the bottom of the screen will wrap back onto the top of the screen.
How to Play: For the Windows distribution, just run LD31.exe.
For the other distributions, run LD31.py to start the game. Requires Pygame and Python 2.7ish.
Controls: Escape quits the game. Space or Enter advances the Title, Splash, Gameover, and Victory screens. WASD or Arrow Keys move the player.
Try to avoid the water and get to the other side. Once you walk off the right edge of the screen, the level is over.
Due to what is probably a bug, it's advisable not to try to move as your character wraps around the screen. It often registers a death when there shouldn't be one in that case. Just stay still until you are back on the top of the screen and you'll be fine.
Tech: Riveroboros runs at 800x480, with 16x16 sprites upscaled by 2x making it equivalent resolution to the NES, if the NES ran at 16:9 ratio. It also uses the original NES palette. Music was created using a Famicom soundfont. It was created using Python 2.7.3 and Pygame. All art assets were created using PyxelEdit. Sound effects were made with sfxr.
Note: I've converted all the audio to .ogg from .wav, so the download size has been dramatically increased. This was suggested by several of the reviewers.
Holy hell that's difficult to play! The staggered scrolling screw you up lots! Pretty fun, but I didn't possess the the will power to attempt level 2. aha :D
Man that jerky movement really hurts my eyes. If you are really careful, you won't die, but it is interesting how the warps and movement really disorientate you.
I just pushed a quick update to LD31.py to add a Shebang at the top so you should be able to just pull down the repo local, and run LD31.py on Linux or OSX.
This game almost gave me a seizure. It was really difficult! I know a lot of people that would actually really enjoy this game, but I don't think it's for me. :)
I just pushed a new version with that line removed. It was added to make freezing the Windows executable work, but is not needed to run the game normally.
That was really tough! Even though it was a bit dizzying to look at with the way the level scrolls, I kind of liked tapping up to "catch up" to the pattern of the flowing river, it really felt like I was running haha! I couldn't beat it though, the timing is really precise. Nice use of the theme and the music was really catchy, well done!
Once I understood the mechanic (the bug messed me up and I thought I couldn't go off the bottom), it actually wasn't that difficult. Not a bad entry, but there's not a lot to it once you understand the mechanic.
The graphics were pretty limited, but I see what you were going for with the NES limitations. I'm not sure how well the smooth edges work with that though, I think you would been better off going with zoomed in pixel art to really seal that NES aesthetic. Also, smooth scrolling would have been so much easier on the eyes.
I've just uploaded an updated version using .ogg instead of .wav for the audio. The file size has decreased a ton. Hopefully that helps anyone who wants to play this in the future.
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P.S.: I had to remove the "import pygame._view" line to get it to run on linux.
The graphics were pretty limited, but I see what you were going for with the NES limitations. I'm not sure how well the smooth edges work with that though, I think you would been better off going with zoomed in pixel art to really seal that NES aesthetic. Also, smooth scrolling would have been so much easier on the eyes.
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