Jack Deadly - 8 bit-wars comp entry

[therevills]

And Level 3:

[therevills]

And the final level:

[Imerion]

Wow, that was hard! But also fun! I really like the level design and graphics. Can also confirm it works great under WINE in Linux.

[therevills]

Glad you like it - so did you complete it? How many lives did you lose? 

[Derron]

Now I understand what they moaned about the "confusing/needs-to-get-used-to" controls :-)


PS: You use screen fading in a palette limited game ... tzt 


bye
Ron

[Imerion]

Glad you like it - so did you complete it? How many lives did you lose? 

Not yet, it was indeed challenging. But in a quite fair way once you figured out what to do. I did lose many lives just to get through a bunch of screens into the first level though. But it was satisfying to prevail, so I'll probably go back and try to get further!

[Derron]

Should I wait for the laser and "move back" or just rush through? Most of the time such lasers in games are there to force you to "run and don't stop" - somehow this didn't work out everytime in my tries ;-)


PS: do not do screenshots of the "throw to screen death animation", poor boy scales ugly as hell (pixel-meat-mashup) :-)


bye
Ron

[therevills]

But it was satisfying to prevail, so I'll probably go back and try to get further!

Great to hear Yeah these type of "try-again" platformer are challenging but once you get further it is satisfying.

Now I understand what they moaned about the "confusing/needs-to-get-used-to" controls :-)

You guys! You wouldn't even stand a chance with the originals!

PS: You use screen fading in a palette limited game ... tzt 

True... but the spirit of the game is still there 

Should I wait for the laser and "move back" or just rush through?

Whatever works 

[Qube]

You guys! You wouldn't even stand a chance with the originals!

Give it another decade and you'll be hearing ( in a whiny child's voice ) "This games is too hard... It want's me to move around and do stuff"

[Derron]

Give it another decade and you'll be hearing ( in a whiny child's voice ) "This games is too hard... It want's me to move around and do stuff"

Generation T(witch).
.. let others play for me.


Bye
Ron

[therevills]

Thanks to all that voted for my little (hard) game 

With the comp over, v1.02 is re-released!

Added simple control mode, as some players found the classic controls too hard!

Z: Shoot Laser
X: Roll Bomb
Down + X: Place Bomb
C: Punch

https://therevillsgames.itch.io/jack-deadly