Play as Vupu the space hamster and run away from the vortex devouring space-time behind you! Collect Time Crystals to keep your timer from reaching zero.
>WASD - directions >J - Roll-dash >K - Jump
- Game by Lee Griggs and Calum Garlick(Twitter: @limitiv) - Music by Alex Ellis
Special Thanks to: - BatteryJellyfish for his palette, Battery24 - Ryan Nielson, for his PixelCamera2D Unity package - The Unity3D team
Difficult, but very fun! The main highlight of the game is certainly its graphics, as the game is gorgeous. Fits the theme well and offers a lot of depth!
As the others say, cruelly hard but very fun. Could maybe use some checkpoints. Dash-jumping feels great, to the point where it basically doesn't need the regular movement and would maybe work as like a 2 button infinite runner. I also really like the art, gives me great kirby vibes.
@dangerbackwards @pass-me-the-controller @agsilverag We're probably going to be working on this game further after LD42 is over so we appreciate the comments regarding the difficulty. Truthfully, the level chunks were sort of slapped together last second so they're not what you might call balanced, although in a final product we hope they will be :)
I'm a sucker for gorgeous games and this Vupu definitely fits the bill! I agree that it's extremely hard, but someone better at these kinds of games than I am would probably have an easier time. The controls felt really natural and were easy to learn. Other than the difficulty, I really don't have any critiques for this game. The graphics are amazing, the music & SFX are both perfect, it fits the theme, and the game itself is rather fun. Awesome job!
Wow! A very high quality runner game! It also fits the theme in 2 ways! Not only are you escaping space, you are also constantly running out of space to platform! It was challenging, but still interesting and very fun! The graphics and music were great, keep up the great work!
Something about that screenshot above made me want to play this game. Really enjoyed it. Just a few pointers:
-- While dashing, disable gravity on the hamster. This is what most platformers do. -- Enable dashing, while in mid-air -- This following stage i feel is super-difficult. I thought i left the void behind but it catched up super quick.
The game is gorgeous and sounds really good. Too bad there's no death animation, it's kinda frustrating. Otherwise controls are neat, you probably still can tweak them so they feel great though.
Very Nice game, the art is so cool, the game plays nice, nice sounds everything great, I was missing like a end screen with distance when you die and like a death aninmation or something. Death feels so sudden. But great game overall.
Really polished, it's clear a ton of effort went into this. Graphics and sound are really nice, the player controls well, (I actually agree with @agsilverag in that this could be a good 2-button runner). Like people are saying, it's very difficult, both in good and bad ways sometimes. There's a part near the beginning where you can get stuck under a jump block, which doesn't feel great. Still, good job all around!
Great game! The character sprite extremely good, the controls are great, and the level is very challenging and interesting to learn. The dash jump is extremely powerful and feels great to fly through the level when you know exactly what jumps to make. I found some of the hitboxes to be a little to harsh, especially on the round enemies. It felt like I was dead before I touched them sometimes. I'd also say that I don't like it when holding jump causes a jump to come out. Several times I died because I was holding jump to get up a ledge and as soon as I got over the top the I launched straight up into spikes. Oh, nice music as well :)
Really polished, in fact incredibly so. Minor issues: I'm not a fan of how the character keeps jumping if I don't release the jump button. The layout is also very tight, not a lot of room for a mistake, especially in the beginning.
I would've liked more easing in, although I have to admit your approach does contribute to the atmosphere of "Holy crap, I've got to run the hell outta here!"
I really like graphics and game feeling. It needs self explaining tutorial and more intuitive controlling. Sometimes i got stuck and need to move back which is frustrating (should be probably :)) and at first i completely had no idea what would kill me and what should i collect or omit. In the other hand, controlling is really responsive and fluent. Overall its really great and have potential! Keep going :)
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We're probably going to be working on this game further after LD42 is over so we appreciate the comments regarding the difficulty. Truthfully, the level chunks were sort of slapped together last second so they're not what you might call balanced, although in a final product we hope they will be :)
-- While dashing, disable gravity on the hamster. This is what most platformers do.
-- Enable dashing, while in mid-air
-- This following stage i feel is super-difficult. I thought i left the void behind but it catched up super quick.
Overall, the game is solid!
I would've liked more easing in, although I have to admit your approach does contribute to the atmosphere of "Holy crap, I've got to run the hell outta here!"
Overall its really great and have potential! Keep going :)
Beautiful art and very cool music.
Good job!
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