sbirda game about travelling to a black hole and descending into the event horizon...
erytauCongrats on releasing it! Great result for a game made in a week.
I did give it a try even though I’m not great at jumping. With a controller (the game does support a controller 👍) I managed to get a bit farther, but still failed, hah.
A small trick I use to give spacey backgrounds more life is to plop a Particles2D node with tiny-twinkling-floating particles. Takes little effort but improves things a lot. Would be fitting for a space game.
I also think the game would work well as an HTML5 game. Itch supports those, and they’re more convenient and accessible since they don’t require players to download EXE files. People tend to be skittish about downloading things.
Thanks! Which part did you get stuck in? I’m not sure why, but the very last wall jump has some weird issue where it doesn’t register half the time, and there’s nothing different about it. Weird. Or was wall jumping not intuitive enough (it’s pressing the button that is opposite to the direction of the wall, e.g. left for a wall like <-|, right for a wall like |->)
Particles for the spacey backgrounds seems like a good tip, thanks!
not sure how to upload html game. I’ll need to figure that out. Maybe my next game could be an html game :>
Wall jumping was intuitive enough, I’m just bad at timing the jumps. Got stuck further in the level, after doing a few wall-jumping sections, so maybe I just hadn’t encountered the bug you are talking about yet.
Hold on, is it the part where you the ledge was just higher than double jump height and there’s no obvious walljump to get up there? (see the second screenshot, is it that part?) That’s a tricky section where you have to jump to the left wall, wall jump to the right, then double jump. Alternatively, people have tried jumping to the right wall, wall jumping to the left, holding right, and double jump.
Found the place. It was here:
that is the buggy region where it’s difficult to wall jump! I have absolutely no idea why it’s like that, there’s nothing different about it (it’s all just tilemap tiles like everything else…) but wall jumping is very tricky there. In my experience you really have to hold on to the wall before jumping since it doesn’t seem to register you’re on the wall properly