Mr Plutonium

What’s this? A post LD patch?

Well yes you are correct! it is indeed and it brings something that i felt was lacking. Nothing game-changing, everything is still the same old same old, Mr. Plutonium is till running, crashing and dying as usual, but NOW! There’s a LEADERBOARD Yeah! Compete with your fellow Plutonium addicts to see who can rack up the most meterds and try to hit the TOP 10 list in the new and improved Mr. Plutonium!

Important note regarding Leaderboard submissions

Do not enter a name containing special characters like spaces and or !#"¤"#¤&~~~*\+?? etc. Keep it purely Alphabetical and numerical or you submission will NOT be registered.

###### tiny patch note
I did tweak the difficulty cure a tiny bit as it was ramping way to slowly and it could take 10-30 minutes for the difficulty to increase. This was basicly a simple formula fix, The old way went like this

- I set a milestone in the beginning and when you passed 1k meterds the difficulty would increase
- Then a new milestone would be set with this formula:

newMilestone = currentMilestone + currentMilestone

- To make the game a bit faster i changed this to:

newMilestone = currentMilestone + 1000

- Making every 1000 meterds a new milestone

Lore & Whatnot

Oh no! Mr. Plutonium broke out of his containment pod and is trying to escape! Who scattered all this plutonium around for him? How far will he get? What is even going on?!

In this game you take control over Mr. Plutonium on his grand adventure to freedom or rather his inevitable death, It's a endless 2d platform side-scroller. He's is one hell of a unstable guy, he never seems to be able to decide how to move, except for forwards!
Mr. plutonium is reliant on his plutonium to keep going. In his pod he was given a bare minimum supply to keep him alive, but over time he grew strong enough to break out! He's lust for more is what drives him. But keep in mind! He's a fragile being, should he crash into any obstacles he will loose some, and in the worst case scenario he would die if he had none

Side note! In plutoniums world distanse is measured in meterds which is a measurement of both distanse and time (mostly time) and this unit is used by highly skilles athletes running marathons to determine their overall performance.

#### Tips / Tricks / Controls
- In the top left of your screen the current controls are displayed, every time one is used it will change to something new
- you can use multiple keys at once
- when in doubt move left, keep this one and the jump key in mid at all times and you might get far
- there's a hard edge(invisible wall) to the left and the right, use this to your advantage

##### My Personal Hi-Score in the finished version!

Techy Stuff

As usual I'm using Gamemaker Studio (the old one) as my engine, This is where most of my work happens. Outside of Gamemaker i have been using Piskel and Paint.Net as my graphical tools. For sound this time around I didn't have access to any instruments or any proper recording equipment, so all this work had to be done on the PC. It was a bummer(I really really enjoy making sounds and music for my games), but hey, I got something tossed together!
The tools i used for audio was Bfxr for my effect sounds, for the soundtrack I used Onlinesequencer, never touched it before but it was really easy to get going!
I also had to do a tiny bit of editing in Audacity to get the soundtrack looping "properly".

###### Credits to Nessa for making the gorgeous thumbnail for this game, the one displayed on LD

IG: aart.nessa