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Matter
by jbarba109
You suddenly find yourself in an unknown declining advanced citadel of an unknown planet. Without weapons or resources, the only thing you've got to survive is a device that generates matter, but what if the sole usage of this device unleashes an unknown dark ancient power? Help this lost explorer to reach the way out of this powerful darkness in this abandoned citadel.
With this matter device as your only way to survive, deal with challenging puzzles and dangerous enemies, find hidden places to discover the dark story behind this doomed citadel or to discover hidden power-ups for the matter device.
Immersive pixel-art
Old-school inspired visuals with some modern techniques will make you feel that you're inside this lost world
Challenging levels
Being able to place your own platforms and walls is a big plus, and you will need id
Upgradable device
You can enhance matter properties to deflect enemies shoots or to explode as timed mines
Story in the visuals
Let the game tell you about what happened to this citadel and why everything is against you in this place
Changelog:
- Improved camera control on events, so the camera can show stuff when button is pressed, improving conveyance
- Added action cameras to levels 2 and 4 and 5
- Decreased time of camera swing
- Created actions enabled with keys
- Created multi-trigger system (need to enabled more than oone even triggerers to activate actions), mechanics not applied yet
- Microtutorial UI has to be improved
- Delay between damage animation and damage itself
- Stairs need friction over player to prevent him to slide down
For next demo release
- Reworking and improving artwork (working on this currently)
- Create settings panelto avoid using the Unity dialog
- Improve toxic water
- Finish SFX and place music
- More levels
- More mechanics and puzzles
- More powerups (some other powerups are ready but I haven't placed in any level)
Roasts
PotionGames 5 years ago
Game Graphics ControlsThe Good:
-This game looks great. I love the world/character art. Its incredibly strong, you should be proud!
-The general idea behind this is great, I love platform/shooter/puzzlers like this. Keep it up!
The Bad:
- jump sound got really annoying really fast. "hup-uh" should maybe just be "hup".
- if I die in the water in the tutorial (or any early level), I shouldn't get teleported a few challenges back. Put me right back to the start of the water challenge.
-..same with falling to death on level 2, after going all the way up, then I fall down that hole. I should be put back to the top of that hole. While teaching the player mechanics (ie: fall damage), it shouldn't be super painful (ie: having to go to start of level).
- there is a delay on input that makes it unplayable, it looks like with the jump, It processes a few frames, to see if it should do a big jump, or a short jump. Check out Mario to see a better, more responsive way to do that. There is also a delay on walking left/right. You can have some acceleration, but it should be much shorter.
-more indication that you're about to die from creating too much matter would be good too. Some sort of "alarm" sound, or make the edge screen overlay be red (rather than yellow), might go a long way. Else, you could make the UI for the "remaining matter" be the length of the screen at the top, or something.
-This game looks great. I love the world/character art. Its incredibly strong, you should be proud!
-The general idea behind this is great, I love platform/shooter/puzzlers like this. Keep it up!
The Bad:
- jump sound got really annoying really fast. "hup-uh" should maybe just be "hup".
- if I die in the water in the tutorial (or any early level), I shouldn't get teleported a few challenges back. Put me right back to the start of the water challenge.
-..same with falling to death on level 2, after going all the way up, then I fall down that hole. I should be put back to the top of that hole. While teaching the player mechanics (ie: fall damage), it shouldn't be super painful (ie: having to go to start of level).
- there is a delay on input that makes it unplayable, it looks like with the jump, It processes a few frames, to see if it should do a big jump, or a short jump. Check out Mario to see a better, more responsive way to do that. There is also a delay on walking left/right. You can have some acceleration, but it should be much shorter.
-more indication that you're about to die from creating too much matter would be good too. Some sort of "alarm" sound, or make the edge screen overlay be red (rather than yellow), might go a long way. Else, you could make the UI for the "remaining matter" be the length of the screen at the top, or something.
jbarba109 5 years ago
The good- Thank you dude! Even now I keep improving this and continue creating new art, specially for the world, so levels are not that repetitive.
- Definitely will do, I really loved this idea when this came up from my mind and I really want to finish this game.
The bad
- Yea I was thinking even about removing this sound, I placed it just to start with some SFX samples, but the entire SFX requires refactoring and better sounds, for example I'm not convinced with the steps either, and there are tons of sounds missing
- This is quite easy to do, however I'd like to know if you died more than once or twice when getting into the water, if so then this is a must
- Yea, going up there is not that easy as I thought, the more people I see playing this, the more I notice how difficult a challenge was
- Shortening the walk acceleration is something I didn't test long time ago, this is definitely something to check, now that its the very first time a player/tester mentions something not right on it
- This one is kinda tricky to be honest, there is already a red overlay for when you get hurt... I will try both of them being red and see if this feels natural, otherwise I would have to try the UI thing (thank you for that suggestion)... also, I was thinking about placing some humming sound when device is overloading, however I don't know if that would be noticed, or if it would be too disturbing
The ugly
- Oh that bloody jump... I am not able to find the right spot yet, it seems... what if I tell you I already checked Mario to refactor by 4th time the jump mechanics? (yea, it was even worse than now)... Other think I might ask you: how did you feel the overall game performance and which screen resolution did you use? I did noticed that if Matter is running with low FPS, some mechanics like the jump get really affected by it, so that information would be really helpful
PotionGames 5 years ago
-I died only once in the water, but was very annoyed that I had to climb back up. Even though its not a challenging climb, and doesn't take that long (maybe 15-30 seconds), it felt really annoying that I had to repeat myself. Once the game ramps up and gets difficult (maybe after 10-15 minutes of play), its totally fine to make the player repeat themselves, as punishment for failing. But while learning the mechanics (the first 10 minutes will feel like a tutorial), I don't want to be punished at all.-With regard to the jump, I don't think it was performance. I have a Geforce GTX 1070, and a core i-7 3.4GHz, and felt no performance issues whatsoever (no frame hitches or anything). I know its programmatic because if I tap space, he jumps fairly quickly. If I hold space, there is a longer wait period before jumping. Definitely should have 0 delay from pressing jump to when a jump happens. I know its awkward programming it, because you have to check if the player is in the middle of a jump (while in the air), and either add more upward force per frame, or have some sort of scripted movement for x amount of frames, as long as the player is holding jump. Its super unnatural, and doesn't make physical sense. But its so worth it for game feel, its what every other game does, and to do otherwise always feels incorrect. If you don't want to go that route, I'd suggest just getting rid of "hold to jump" entirely, and just have 1 set jump height. That way, you can have him jump immediatley, without parsing the amount of time the button is down.
BREAKINGcode 5 years ago
Game Graphics MechanicsHi,
I loved game art, parallax works quite well being quite simple. Everything fells pleasing...
I must say over time I felt lake of meaning in the game, the mechanics are "ok" but are not really rewarding,
I see great potential in the game, with some enemies and using the "power balls" becoming more like a chanllengue and a smart decision to make, could make a fun game to play :)
I loved game art, parallax works quite well being quite simple. Everything fells pleasing...
I must say over time I felt lake of meaning in the game, the mechanics are "ok" but are not really rewarding,
I see great potential in the game, with some enemies and using the "power balls" becoming more like a chanllengue and a smart decision to make, could make a fun game to play :)
jbarba109 5 years ago
Hello, thank you for roasting my game!I like this style of art, I was even thinking about making more art (but way more detailed) as a way of exploring in between challenges, maybe as a way of rewarding... I'm still thinking about what's the best approach of doing rewards to players, I don't want to extend the scope of the game doing dialogs or animated cutscenes (I'm alone in this project) so I got to be wise on this one or I won't ever finish even the demo
I'd like to ask you: how many levels did you manage to play? so far nobody I knew was able to beat my demo, and it only has 6 levels
KATPRO 1 year ago
Level Design Game GraphicsThe levels great and good gameplay. SUPER
