Planet Hopper
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I've been a software engineer for 10 years, and a game programmer for all of 2 weeks. Not sure why I thought entering a game jam when I can barely stop my character falling through the floor was a good idea! I just need to find a theme that turns my programming bugs in to features...
In Planet Hopper you have been turned in to a giant by a freak industrial accident. Without your space ship you need to find a way home by hopping between planets and asteroids, and using radioactive mushrooms to shrink down to normal size to collect fuel to power a rocket, or solve other puzzles to help you progress. Controls are the usual ASWD or arrow keys for movement, and space to jump. If you want to reset your lives press 'o', or to instantly complete a level and get back to the galaxy press 'p'. Sadly only had time to make 2 planets as it took me waaay too long to work out basic controls and movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQkQUgENIw
The sprites and sounds are mainly free ones, but there are a couple I bought as I'm so bad at art I miss when trying to paint a barn door!
But, my first attempt at a game and I'm fairly happy with it in spite of dodgy colliders (with a bit or work I can probably turn them in to hover boots...) and freak gravity problems. I think I learnt more this weekend than in the past few weeks trying to learn how to program games!
- sound
* Download Version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1R8XA8Ok9OHMlRGbWd6MVhZeTg/view?usp=sharing
In Planet Hopper you have been turned in to a giant by a freak industrial accident. Without your space ship you need to find a way home by hopping between planets and asteroids, and using radioactive mushrooms to shrink down to normal size to collect fuel to power a rocket, or solve other puzzles to help you progress. Controls are the usual ASWD or arrow keys for movement, and space to jump. If you want to reset your lives press 'o', or to instantly complete a level and get back to the galaxy press 'p'. Sadly only had time to make 2 planets as it took me waaay too long to work out basic controls and movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQkQUgENIw
The sprites and sounds are mainly free ones, but there are a couple I bought as I'm so bad at art I miss when trying to paint a barn door!
But, my first attempt at a game and I'm fairly happy with it in spite of dodgy colliders (with a bit or work I can probably turn them in to hover boots...) and freak gravity problems. I think I learnt more this weekend than in the past few weeks trying to learn how to program games!
Event: Jam
Opt-outs:
- graphics- sound
Links
* Web Version: https://itch.io/embed-upload/460613?color=333333 (takes a while to load)* Download Version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1R8XA8Ok9OHMlRGbWd6MVhZeTg/view?usp=sharing