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Splitted by CodeHat

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made by CodeHat for LD29 (COMPO)
*EDIT* Made jumping slightly easier and reduced gravity a bit. But it's difficult anyway ;)

HayHo,
before you play my game
I recommend to read the description,

in "Splitted" you are a person who has lost his soul.
He was splitted into two parts.
- His body (it is on the surface)
- His soul (it is beneath the surface)
You control the body and the soul AT THE SAME TIME
and you have to try to merge with your soul.

Controls:

- Movement: Left/Right Arrowkey
- Jump: Up Arrowkey

Important:

- Stone Bricks: Can be pushed by going against them
- Spears/Spikes: Will kill you and you have to restart
- The camera only follows your body, so if your soul
is out of the screen, you have lost!

This was my third LD and was really funny. I have learned
how useful Tilemaps are ;)

The game is short but hard to play :D
Maybe I'll continue the game and port it to Android.

Tools I have used:

- Programming: Construct 2
- Art: Assprite/Paint.NET
- Sounds: SFXR
- Music:
~ Rain/Thunder background sound from http://freesound.org
~ Game music made with Figure for iOS
- Fonts: All from http://dafont.com
Web (HTML5) http://games.mc-carrot.de/LD29
Source (.capx) http://games.mc-carrot.de/sources/LD29.capx
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=25062

Ratings

Coolness 83% 2
Overall 3.10 640
Audio 3.00 394
Fun 2.61 912
Graphics 3.32 451
Humor 2.03 844
Innovation 3.15 487
Mood 3.08 468
Theme 3.77 147

Feedback

TowelKing
28. Apr 2014 路 07:43 UTC
Very cool game, I enjoyed playing it. I liked the puzzly elements and the overall graphical look of the game.
Mihael Medan
28. Apr 2014 路 08:27 UTC
I like the graphics and the mood, but pixel jumps are so hard to do correctly..
LewisW
28. Apr 2014 路 08:33 UTC
Very nice audiovisual presentation and a great concept. I feel like the jumping is WAAAAY too unforgiving though. Maybe I just suck but its very frustrating getting stuck when you know what you are supposed to do but can't get the precision timing and positioning right to actually make it through. Could have maybe used checkpoints or something.
馃帳 CodeHat
28. Apr 2014 路 08:34 UTC
I know jumping is a bit hard. The collision polygon aren't the best. I will look if I change the collision a bit.
donan
28. Apr 2014 路 08:38 UTC
Really col game :D
Pixel collision makes it a bit hard but the overall its really good.
jorgemoag
28. Apr 2014 路 09:18 UTC
Wow, and html5? very cool
Reinkout
28. Apr 2014 路 09:18 UTC
Great graphics, and i have to concur with the people about the jump. Other than that. Really great job in just 2 days! :)
CustomPhase
28. Apr 2014 路 09:20 UTC
Pretty ok game, didnt take my interest for too long though. And yes, the jumps are way to hard to implement.
madhoe
28. Apr 2014 路 09:29 UTC
Really well polished game with nice art, but really hate the jumping.
Shire
28. Apr 2014 路 09:56 UTC
cool idea, give a little more wiggle room when jumping please
馃帳 CodeHat
28. Apr 2014 路 10:16 UTC
Uploaded the updated version: Better jumping with slightly lower gravity ;)
shuanDang
28. Apr 2014 路 10:26 UTC
ooh, it is pretty tough, I think im stuck on the 6,7th spike
lonewookie
29. Apr 2014 路 00:29 UTC
Very challenging. I love the music, and the concept/mechanic is really fun!
Tanner
29. Apr 2014 路 12:35 UTC
It's really hard!
mess110
29. Apr 2014 路 13:43 UTC
i like it. for some reason it was using a lot of chrome's resources
WhiteVoidia
29. Apr 2014 路 13:44 UTC
Pretty difficult! I can't say that I haven't seen this idea before, but I love the way it's executed :D
oal
29. Apr 2014 路 13:48 UTC
This game is hard, but I think it fits the mood. Kind of dark and scary. The music is simple, but doesn't get annoying even though it loops very often. Good job!
kmakai
29. Apr 2014 路 13:48 UTC
That one jump is really hard, but I like this a lot! Great music too.
hexagore
29. Apr 2014 路 13:49 UTC
Enjoyed the music for this, also like the dual character mechanic a lot too. Tricky!!
馃帳 CodeHat
29. Apr 2014 路 13:55 UTC
Maybe I'll make some more levels ;)
renatopp
29. Apr 2014 路 13:58 UTC
I think the movement could be more polished, but is a good game with a good theme. Would love to play a polished game in this style
blockbot
29. Apr 2014 路 14:02 UTC
I really wanted to get farther into this game but jumping over some of the obstacles was almost impossible. Really cool art, nice concept, I think this just needs to be tweaked a bit to make it more playable.
XrXr
29. Apr 2014 路 14:53 UTC
Very challenging! I spent a good 30 minutes on it. Was pretty frustrated at first because the jump doesn't feel quite right, but I pulled through :D Game is well done!
Gamepopper
29. Apr 2014 路 18:04 UTC
Like the challenge of controlling two players at once, although the level design is a bit tight early on. Makes some jumps really difficult.
PaperBlurt
30. Apr 2014 路 06:53 UTC
This is best way to use the theme so far.
But harder then f**king Dark Souls.

Nice job!
BadgerPriest
30. Apr 2014 路 09:24 UTC
Cool concept, but man is the difficulty extreme. Maybe the hitboxes on the sprites should be a few pixels smaller.
oatsbarley
30. Apr 2014 路 10:58 UTC
Smaller hitboxes on hazards and a little more power in the jump would make this a lot less frustrating. Nice idea, though!
TeamEagle
30. Apr 2014 路 17:06 UTC
this is pretty hard :D
pancakecity
30. Apr 2014 路 17:25 UTC
I only was able to get past a few spikes before gettingfrustrated at the low margin of error and quitting. I really want to play further since this looks like an awesome game, can you change the jump's 'hang time' or something?
rnlf
30. Apr 2014 路 21:29 UTC
I honestly tried to finish it, but it is not hard, it is CRAZY HARD. But what I've seen looks really promising. If just the jumping was a bit easier...
mtrc
01. May 2014 路 00:54 UTC
Really hard to play. I couldn't jump over even the first set of spikes :( Nice work though.
Oddly Shaped Pixels
01. May 2014 路 10:27 UTC
Great concept but too hard to be really enjoyable. You should make the player jump higher and give him some 3 life points cause permadeath is too frustrating.
SaintHeiser
01. May 2014 路 10:45 UTC
Ok. I understand. This game not about beneath the surface but about pixel-hunting and precious jumping =)
csanyk
06. May 2014 路 03:07 UTC
Interesting idea, but very difficult. I think the body character at topside blends much too much with the background, making it very difficult to judge when to jump. It's hard enough with the attention split to judge exactly when I can safely jump in both worlds. Making the graphics somewhat larger would help, but you really need to improve contrast between the character and the background.
whalebot
07. May 2014 路 20:01 UTC
Blah blah blah the jumping... ;) Other than that, cool game.
rincewind_cz
08. May 2014 路 15:43 UTC
Movement should be bit faster ;)
namuol
11. May 2014 路 20:58 UTC
Nice atmosphere, concept, and graphics, but I have to agree with the others; the platforming is -painfully- touchy.

If you ever have the time, read through the "Sonic Physics Guide": http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide

It's a little on the long/detailed side, but it's a great reference whenever you're implementing the jump/run controls of any platformer.

You don't have to copy the same "physics" of the Sonic series, but there's a lot of subtle tricks they use to make the run & jump -feel- a lot more "natural". I've never seen a better write-up on the subject.

Cheers!
jsmars
17. May 2014 路 17:36 UTC
Fun game but really unforgiving! I actually thought we would se more games like this, I had a similar idea from the start too.. you did it really well!
Daniel X. Moore
17. May 2014 路 19:31 UTC
Super challenging platformer.