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A Tale of Two Souls by indigo

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made by indigo for LD32 (COMPO)
A classic platformer with a twist. You have a gun - a soul gun - and after your kingdom was attacked by , you need to . Because the gun shoots your soulmate's soul, you can, at any time, exchange your position and velocity for the projectile's. Can you push this ability to its limits? Will you beat this platformer?

Controls explained ingame.

Written in Python, using pygame. You can run this on Linux (or any other OS) if you have Python and pygame installed. (I would love to cxfreeze this project, but there's a bug that prevents me from doing that, it seems.)
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/kysxzoxgd7qxqg1/ld32.zip?dl=0
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvkrfkdd5efomjx/ld32src.tar?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=45376

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1769
Overall 2.95 752
Audio 2.40 670
Fun 3.10 515
Graphics 2.50 868
Innovation 3.62 224
Mood 2.88 596
Theme 3.67 284

Feedback

Fanttum
20. Apr 2015 路 03:46 UTC
Looks deep. But i'm on mac :/ any web player coming soon?
馃帳 indigo
20. Apr 2015 路 03:56 UTC
You're not missing out on an story, there really is none :)

Unfortunately, I can't make a web player for technical reasons. However, if you have python and pygame installed, I am 99% sure you can just run this as-is on Mac (download the source package and run main.py).
tppr2046
20. Apr 2015 路 04:04 UTC
Fun! but hard, I am still trying..
Nonameghost
20. Apr 2015 路 04:06 UTC
Pretty interesting take on the swapping mechanic! I'd suggest trying to package it in an executable if possible. I'm not always keen on running .bats from the internet haha :D
manabreak
20. Apr 2015 路 05:19 UTC
The controls are a bit wonky, I couldn't really jump anywhere. The idea is solid, just needs some polish. :)
MJaawa
20. Apr 2015 路 15:49 UTC
Good idea, nice implementation. Controls could use some work, but it's a solid puzzle platformer, nice :)
scorched
20. Apr 2015 路 15:50 UTC
Nice, I wish the movement acceleration value was less though
Majsmanne
20. Apr 2015 路 15:54 UTC
Really interesting idea! Just wish the controls where better and it took me quite a while to get the velocity swap mechanic.
nihilaleph
20. Apr 2015 路 16:12 UTC
Great mechanics and idea! Just thought the controls are a bit stiff. Maybe the levels could have some music too!
PyroSneak
20. Apr 2015 路 16:13 UTC
I enjoyed the mechanic of switching position + velocity with the cloud
Cosmologicon
23. Apr 2015 路 03:33 UTC
Cool idea, but unfortunately I think there's a framerate issue with the physics. I keep falling through the platform on the second level. My computer is pretty slow, so I think the timestep is too large. I may try to tweak it myself at some point. Overall the controls feel a bit stiff, but it's hard to really nail platforming during LD.
TeamFlare
23. Apr 2015 路 19:38 UTC
awesome idea :D could have used some music.. but loved the comments between the levels ;)
bossmojoman
26. Apr 2015 路 22:31 UTC
Hard, but fun - good job!