Fission Horse in The Escape From the Condemned Stables

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.93
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.98
You are Fission Horse: A nuclear powered horse developed to prevent horse related criminal activity.

While incredibly powerful, Fission Horse is very unstable. Handle with care.

Several horsies have gone missing.

You must rescue them from the CONDEMNED STABLES

Begin Operation Un-Stable

Controls:

Arrow Keys + Space

Gamepads Supported
Tags: #horses
Genres: platformer
Tools: GameMaker

Comments20

KewDev
KewDev3 Oct 2021, 19:37
Extremely fun to play with friends. It's a really good game and i like listening to my friends rage lol.
Myles Doupe
Myles Doupe4 Oct 2021, 03:22
The only thing I can think of that would improve this game is a soundtrack. So I guess almost perfect?
pcmaster4 Oct 2021, 10:13
Poor fission horsie, how he's sweatin' :D It's very good that it 'auto-saves' at the start of each section/sub-level. Pretty tricky. Very nice. Love the pixel art. Love the sounds. Love the hardcore oldskool physics. I didn't get past the long jump though :thinking: An awesome job!
Pincushion4 Oct 2021, 22:33
Well done! It has a good mix of obstacles. The levels are tuned well. I couldn't save Herman though. That sea of bombs had me raging.
MonkeyFox
MonkeyFox4 Oct 2021, 23:47
Very well made game. I love the effects of the horse sweating and exploding. I'm glad I'm not the only one to do a horse pun game!
BOOtak
BOOtak5 Oct 2021, 13:43
I love the pun in the game name! The game is very well made, it looks great, it sounds great, levels are fun to go through, and the concept is also great. I spent quite some time playing this, 10/10!
Artemy Zen
Artemy Zen7 Oct 2021, 15:11
Cool and challenging platformer. I like the drawing. The theme is revealed in a very creative way. Thanks for an interesting time.
ZachsButt
ZachsButt7 Oct 2021, 15:17
it was pretty tough, but i was able to complete it! at first i felt it a bit tedious to wait after every time i moved, but i think it came together more so in the later levels. solid entry!
dob
dob9 Oct 2021, 07:39
McAfee wouldn't let me unzip this - it's done that with a couple other games, usually .lua files. A shame - I'd like to play it - my game also involves radioactive horses and the unstable joke :-)
CodeRaurus
CodeRaurus9 Oct 2021, 11:37
Very solid entry! I like the graphics and the gameplay feels smooth, once you get the hang of it.
Thieme559 Oct 2021, 14:16
Very funny and enjoyable game. Maybe some graphics (surroundings) could be chosen to better match the game.
lesinvisible
lesinvisible9 Oct 2021, 23:46
Surprisingly, it's not the first horse related game I came upon this LD) The game was very nice and smooth, I liked it.
goldey210 Oct 2021, 04:55
I really liked the unique and slippery physics paired with a fragile protagonist. I thought the spiky wall timed sections were especially interesting to navigate. Would have been cool if a bit more of the level design harnessed the high speeds. Overall though, this is a very good platformer!
BGDC
BGDC10 Oct 2021, 13:38
The quality of level design and graphics are outstanding for a compo game, it's even better compared to some Jam games! great job :thumbsup:
Epiphaner10 Oct 2021, 15:08
Very fun to play, although the last level was a bit sadistic :smiling_imp:
I liked that you even added a secret!
It felt very polished for something made in 48h.
victoriaogino10 Oct 2021, 21:05
Wow super addicting game! The physics were hard to get used to, but that's what made it fun and challenging. I loved the sound effects and the pixel art, particularly the sweating animation was cute :D
pickens-inc
pickens-inc10 Oct 2021, 23:00
What a compelling entry! I really rather enjoyed that. A silly and enjoyable concept with a great mix of takes on the theme. Worth it for the pun alone. I found the controls rather difficult and the experience was marred only by a few small things. Some feedback beyond UI for your approaching overheating or too much speed would have been great, and I think two ways of dying in addition to the standard anti-horse hazards was enough, the addition of the spike wall on occasion was a little bit too much to keep track of. But overall, well done, lots of content and a great game for a compo entry.
Sheol
Sheol11 Oct 2021, 04:50
Really fun! I like how you even managed to put in different block types and varying levels! The last level was brutal though 😭 Took me a while to complete haha. Still, I think it's an amazing entry for a compo game! I can't really tell but I would have liked if there was some coyote time for the jumps :x just to make it feel better haha. Overall, great job!!
Honey Pony
Honey Pony21 Oct 2021, 14:24
The physics in this game are extremely fun. I think this is because of the contrast between your lowest speed and your top speed. At least in my experience, platformers always seem more fun when you start to crank up the player speed, but then as that speed becomes "normal" it becomes less exciting. So, because this game has a normal speed that's pretty low, when I do accelerate to be really fast it remains exciting.

I found the addition of the carrots, especially the secret carrot, to be quite fun. I especially like the way that the secret carrot requires components in all three levels.

The game is pretty hard, but it's ultimately not that bad. After playing through it once it becomes quite a bit easier to get through it again, so I was able to get all the carrots and secrets.

Overall I think this is a really good entry. The only thing really missing is music, but that didn't take away from the fun gameplay or level design.

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