Jack Deadly - 8 bit-wars comp entry

Started by therevills, February 08, 2019, 09:44:29

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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  ;D


bye
Ron

Imerion

QuoteGlad 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

Quote from: Imerion on April 12, 2019, 23:18:01
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.

Quote from: Derron on April 12, 2019, 20:53:58
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!

Quote from: Derron on April 12, 2019, 20:53:58
PS: You use screen fading in a palette limited game ... tzt  ;D

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

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

Whatever works  ;D

Qube

QuoteYou 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"
Mac Studio M1 Max ( 10 core CPU - 24 core GPU ), 32GB LPDDR5, 512GB SSD,
Beelink SER7 Mini Gaming PC, Ryzen 7 7840HS 8-Core 16-Thread 5.1GHz Processor, 32G DDR5 RAM 1T PCIe 4.0 SSD
MSI MEG 342C 34" QD-OLED Monitor

Until the next time.

Derron

Quote from: Qube on April 13, 2019, 03:10:34
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

#115
Thanks to all that voted for my little (hard) game  ;D

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