Ludum Dare #51compo

Coupled Explorers

by noam-zeise

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Two brave adventurers must navigate a strange world.
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Despite having seperate bodies, they have been coupled. Each can only act for 10 seconds at a time before they are placed into stasis and the other must act.

A platformer where you must get through each level with two different characters, but the changes you cause are persistent between the characters.

* Source Code: https://github.com/NoamZeise/Coupled-Explorers-LD51
* Itch Page : https://noamzeise.itch.io/coupled-explorers

Controls:

* Left/Right or A/D for movement
* Z or Comma for jump
* plus/minus to grow/shrink window size
* r for restart
* esc for exit

debug controls:
* F1 for switch
* F2 for next level
* F3 for prev level

tools used:
* sdl2 + rust bindings
* quick_xml
* lovely composer
* aseprite
* tiled

Tags: #physics

Genres: platformer

Tools: Aseprite, Rust, SDL, Tiled

Comments8

FootLettuce3 Oct 2022, 17:10

This, for me, was an unintentional rage game. I was determined to see it through to the end. The later levels require big brain strategy, and forethought as to where each character would be able to land for the future. Tough, but good! (Proof I saw it through to the end)

kory3 Oct 2022, 19:56

Nice game! The jumping felt a bit floaty, but I really liked the core idea. It was fun having to jump while moving to keep platforms up, but also be careful to dodge the holes in the ground :O)

red-stake4 Oct 2022, 07:24

I liked the idea of switching between characters that handled differently, but I did kind of struggle with how floaty the jumps were, maybe because I'm not great at difficult platformers. I think the core idea is a good one - you could have a lot of interactions between the two characters based on when they freeze (e.g. jumping off each other).

Gooz6 Oct 2022, 09:13

Fun game machanic and levels need too focus, I like it picasso

Izzo12 Oct 2022, 18:39

Impressive entry especially considering this was the compo and you made it with SDL
It was rather challenging but fun to strategize what order to use my peops in :)

someone12 Oct 2022, 19:09

Nice platformer. Its a good challenge with a decent number of levels, and they weren't too long as to be frustrating.
I like how the sand blocks worked. It was a fun challenge to get both characters across them.
My main issue was the moving platforms felt quite buggy.

Luka Roli12 Oct 2022, 19:56

Very good, concise project. I'm impressed by all that you've been able to do in 2 days. The platforming challenges work well and it was fun giving a bit of thought to strategy. Too bad the controls were like 90% responsive, causing me to fail a few times. Managed to make it to the end, it was not that difficult. Music and visuals work well. I like the layered background.

epeachyband19 Oct 2022, 03:29

Awesome game. Good challenge. I like it

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