POST-COMPO UPDATE #1: I added a basic save function so if you accidentally quit or need to take a break you can resume where you left off! You can find the new version on the Gamejolt page!
Show them all that friendship is the ultimate weapon. The world is filled with lonely skeletons but you the HIGH FIVERER don't see them that way. You know they are really just friends waiting to be made. High Five them to bring out the awesome person that was there all along!
High Fiverer is a rapid-fire-arcade-combo-builder-friend-chaining explosion! Use the mouse to high five your way to victory!
CONTROLS -Left click to dash toward the mouse cursor -Escape to restart the level -F12 for screenshots
INSTRUCTIONS -Dash into skeletons to high five them -Once a dash starts you will only stop if you perform a high five, hit a wall, or have traveled the full distance -Skeletons become Friends when you high five them -New friends will move at a percentage of the speed you were moving and in the same direction -Friends will High Five up to 1 skeleton if they have enough speed -The cheering sound means a Friend high fived a skeleton, this adds a little time to your combo timer -Your dash speed will increase as your combo gets bigger but the time your dash takes is always the same -You will be pulled towards the red circles around the skeletons and those get bigger as the combo increases -The blue circle around your character shows how much combo time is left
HINT: The combo timer does not start until the first High Five of the level, so you can try different starting points and trajectories.
FEATURES
-13 levels! -Make lots of friends! -Combo the whole screen to move on! -Timings! -Super positive! -Tons of visual feedback to parse!
Code, Sound, & Music by TheWzzard Artwork is CC0 Assets from opengameart with some recolors and edits Assets used are collected here: http://opengameart.org/content/high-fiverer
This is a solo project, my first jam and my third game ever.
Music was good. Some of the audio was a bit off. (yeeaaaahhh). Hadn't played a game quite like this before, but it didn't really feel like it had any where to go besides learning to be a bit better at twitch. Some of the levels looked like they'd be more strategic but it was easier to focus on landing your next H5 rather than plan a route.
Interesting game would have liked to have a bit more time to pull of high fives, most likely I am just really bad at high fiving though. Will have to practice
I liked your play on the theme, and the music was good. The gameplay took quite a while to figure out, and once I did figure it out, it didn't feel as polished as it should be.
Really cool concept and super funny. Had a hard time getting combos and making friends. Probably my fault. But a little clearer on the instructions would be nice
Great idea. It's sometimes very confusing where you're currently heading thanks to the frequent zooms but once you get the hang of it you can finish the levels after figuring out the best sequence.
Music and sound effects were nice and fitted the rest of the game.
Really unique idea. Just like others, I had a little issue jumping in on the camera but I see what you were going for. I managed to spam click the next red circle to jump around instead of learning the sequence but that is a good skill to learn :)
Really cool, the music hooks you to the game, "one more time, one more time" :-) Was stuck on one of the last level, kind of frustrating. Also, i accidentally click on the "Main menu" button, and i admit i rage-quitted :-)
But i had a lot of fun on this game, congratulations !
Also, to append my last comment, the zoom-in on the high-five makes it very difficult to aim towards the next direction, since there's less to see. I would appreciate not zooming in that close.
Visual and control bugs appear when the height of the display is less than 768 because the game right now runs at a fixed 1024:768 resolution. I'll be releasing a bug fix for this soon
This was so fun to play although it gets a bit hard to control the player as your speed increases in a combo. Also I do wish there was some indication when the current combo is about to finish (I think it might be there but I might have missed it since the combo timer itself seems a bit too short).
Really nice concept. Great music. But the game is too difficult. The combo timer is waaaaay too short. In fact, if you really wanted to make it that short, you may as well just let the player make only one dash and there's no timer at all. But seriously, I understand that a too long timer would have killed momentum but this 'your combo ended' is worse than that. But yea, nice game anyway. I like the enthusiasm !
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It's sometimes very confusing where you're currently heading thanks to the frequent zooms but once you get the hang of it you can finish the levels after figuring out the best sequence.
Music and sound effects were nice and fitted the rest of the game.
Good game. :)
Original idea!!
Solid particles and feedback. Good job!
Was stuck on one of the last level, kind of frustrating. Also, i accidentally click on the "Main menu" button, and i admit i rage-quitted :-)
But i had a lot of fun on this game, congratulations !
I like the zoom in and the effects, but too bad you didn't apply for graphics.
It's a shame, because I liked what I played. The combo meter is really unforgiving, though.