To The Core

by paulsams

co-authored: @denissobolev, @mirka-chan

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.15

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.52

A puzzle platformer with a portal gun and shooter elements that tells the story of a failed journey to the center of the earth.

Embark on a journey to the center of the earth and don't forget the portal gun. Watch out for huge jellyfish and remember: "Corporate ethics prohibits wearing the Black Mesa insignia".

Walhthrough:

The last room with arrows:

TIP:
Look at the arrow at the back of the room and at the arrow at the bottom. They are very closely related. And the third arrow from the top indicates the drop height.

FULL Walhthrough:
after the checkpoint, we jump down and put the portal on the back on a large surface, then we fly to the mushroom, where it is already on the ice and two more mushrooms, and we get back on the ice and from this ice we fall down to the portal where the arrow is, and turning back we put the second portal under the second arrow and at high speed we fly over the whole room.

Tags: #atmospheric, #first-person, #gravity, #short, #singleplayer, #unity

Genres: puzzle, shooter

Comments22

Yanergy27 Apr 2021, 12:51

This game was awesome. The graphics were really good. I liked the "being launched and quickly try to save yourself" aspect. It is reminiscent of portals but you are constantly moving so you have to act quickly. though it was sometimes a bit hard to see where to go and where to place the next portals. But overall, a really cool game.

felixmreeve27 Apr 2021, 12:54

Haven't given you a rating yet since I downloaded it and it didn't seem to work with my mouse input? The mouse was registering since the view through portals was moving but the character viewpoint was stuck?

kasalooo27 Apr 2021, 12:58

I really liked it, like the graphics are really good, mood and ambience also, but the constant dying was kinda annoying since i wanted to experience the game some more. Overall really good, probably the best by now

Iluvatar27 Apr 2021, 12:58

Hands down the most interesting game I've played so far. I can't believe you have made something like this in only 72 hours. The graphics are just unbelievable and you even managed to make The Portal game??? How??? That's just incredible.

PS: Extra points for that first slide in the beginning, that was such fun :)

Archie Evans27 Apr 2021, 13:16

There's a lot done here for 72hrs! Really fun but crazy hard! Wish I could've gotten to the end but I kept being killed whilst entering the portals in a long section between checkpoints and couldn't make it to the next part of the level. Both the mood and the graphics for the gun where also great.

DenisSobolev27 Apr 2021, 13:49

@felixmreeve It happens. Try restarting the game and wait for the initial animation to complete before pressing T.

Escortti27 Apr 2021, 14:59

The graphics of the game were really great. The dim environments gave the game a good underground ambience. The slowdowns felt odd at the beginning but they were a good choice for making it easier to land those tricky portal shots.

Paulsamsauthor27 Apr 2021, 17:56

@felixmreeve We understood the cause of the bug and fixed it. Although it was difficult, because he appears very randomly. You can try to play again.

Janetheodd27 Apr 2021, 19:42

Loved the jellyfish! Other than that I died a lot but I believe that's not the game's fault ;)

JCMonkey28 Apr 2021, 05:52

there were spots where i kept falling through the world, and also you should put in a game exit for instances like that.

Paulsamsauthor28 Apr 2021, 07:35

@jcmonkey I will check the collision so that you cannot fall out of the world. But why close the game for a restart? You may not have seen, but at the beginning of the game there was a tutorial, where it was written that there is an "R" button, which returns to the last checkpoint.

JCMonkey28 Apr 2021, 07:39

when you fall out of the world, your stuck alt tabbing to kill the process

DenisSobolev28 Apr 2021, 09:11

@jcmonkey You can reload last checkpoint by R button.

Ekaterina28 Apr 2021, 18:39

Довольно интересная игра с потенциалом. Пока есть сложности с прицеливанием и пониманием, сможешь ли ты долететь до портала или горки, и попадешь ли ты в них или приземлишься в сантиметре от нужной точки и погибнешь. Это довольно часто совсем не очевидно. В некоторых моментах ты ловишь флоу и получаешь удовольствие, но эти моменты не так продолжительны как хотелось бы. Так же не всегда очевидно в какую сторону вообще нужно двигаться. Понравилась общая атмосфера и настроение, светяшки красивые, но отвлекают внимание от геймплейно значимых элементов вроде горок и мест для порталов.

Fearawl29 Apr 2021, 14:22

The game is good, looks great and is perfectly played. The only thing that spoils the impression a little is the difficulty at the last stage. With a competent difficulty curve and a slightly steeper level design, the game would be top.

Игра хорошая, прекрасно выглядит и прекрасно играется. Единственное что немного портит впечатление - сложность на последнем этапе. С грамотной кривой сложности и чуть более крутым левел дизайном игра была бы топ.

Scrawach29 Apr 2021, 22:00

It's very addictive, but there are nuances with orientation in space. Nice visual & gameplay!

Manan30 Apr 2021, 04:10

It seemed very cool. Sadly, I could not figure out how to beat the first level. I liked the flying jellyfish a lot though.

somnolentPumpkin30 Apr 2021, 08:09

Really fun game! The gameplay reminded me a lot of the Surf maps from back in counter-strike: source. But, like, if you also had a portal gun.

katamary1 May 2021, 19:25

Nice work! But I often fall past the gutter. The game seems too difficult due to level design errors.

Christian Camargo3 May 2021, 21:10

I have an idea what you were trying to do here. I was able to figure out what to do, but took a bit of trial and error. The graphics are pleasing and I thought the pacing is nice and steady.

CORRUPTOR20374 May 2021, 10:36

Looks supercool
But it is very hard to understand what you should do
There is a reason why Portal levels are compact and static - all puzzle related places are near by and you have plenty of time to think

asfdfdfd7 May 2021, 19:47

Wow! Ambitious entry. Good luck!

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