Hermes
Hermes
A 2D vertical platformer game based on Greek mythology~Introduction
In this game, you will play as Hermes, the messenger of the gods. Your task is to deliver an important message from Zeus to Hades. However, the journey is not an easy one, Hermes must goes through different realms and obstacles in order to reach Hades.Once Hermes delivers the message to Hades successfully, the game ends.
The game takes place in a 2D world, where player falls from the sky while avoiding obstacles and collecting blessings.
How to play
When playing the website version, please run on Full Screen to get best experienceDownload PCbuild3.zip to play on PC or play the website version!
Use WASD to move and click to continue with dialogues.
(only in level 3) Pressing shift to activate Iris's blessing, you may teleport to any block.
The game starts with Hermes jumping out of the sky and falling through different realms, including Olympus, the mortal world, and the underworld.
Along the way, Hermes must avoid fall into the abyss without standing on the platforms or move too slow touches the top of screen.
* The goal is to reach the end of each level, where Hermes will deliver the message to Hades.
As Hermes falls, he will encounter different items such as
* Golden apple: increase maximum health
* Heart: recover health
The player should successfully deliver Zeus's messages to Hades before it is too late.
Character Design
Levels
Realms 1: Olympus
In this level, Hermes falls through the realm of the gods, where he can gain golden apples and hearts.Realms 2: mortal world
In this level, Hermes will meet Iris, and gain a teleport skill from her. In this realm, you will meet some special platforms which will move up/down/left/right or break and disappear. Be careful and make wise decisions.Realms 3: The Underworld
In this level, Hermes falls through the underworld, where he must avoid bats. There will be more special platforms here. Be prepared for challenges!Contribution
Programming: HOW4RD, SapphireStar, QinYuqiArt: Allie, UZUZ, Michelle_go,
Level & UI Design: Michelle_go, UZUZ
Story script: cedaoan, H_Chloe
Attribution
Sound:
https://opengameart.org/
Graphics:
For graphics, our artists made everything except platformer blocks (listed below)
(https://www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2H7N4b1m2A0G6G6_spikes-spikes-pixel-art/)
(https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/fdagrs/transport_belt_pixel_art_for_a_school_project/)
(https://www.kenney.nl/assets/platformer-art-deluxe)
Comments18
For some reason it was often that I would spawn somewhere unsafe (right on the top) after getting hit somewhere at the bottom and as a result - instant death even with 2 hearts. Plus Bats in underground seemed to hit me twice for some reason too (maybe also wrong spawn). Would love some immunity timer for such occasion. Couple of seconds would do so you can escape whatever it is actually about to hit you while you spawned and still disoriented.
Overall liked the concept a lot. Quite nice difficulty raise, though checkpoint or couple (thinking about after you reach goddess) would be great!
The music sounds nice and fits the overall vibe of the game. The character designs are really charming. In order to improve the look of the game, you should have the same scale (1pixel = 1cm for example) for every pixel on screen. Everything would be more cohesive that way and hightlight your animations, which work really well.
This one is a really good entry!
* Hint to use WASD made me think there is no jump in this game. I spent some time playing before finding out you can jump using space.
* Text sometimes has the some color as background, so I was unable to read that entering door is on E and had to mash through my keyboard.
* Hermes sometimes spawns outside the screen (already mentioned in other comment).
* Several times I jumped into abyss but it turned out that there is a platform like half a screen under the actual screen.