King of Coins by SandPile
King of Coins is a fun and satisfying puzzle game made by me (https://twitter.com/SandPile).
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_yW47APTX4
DESCRIPTION: - In this game, you are going through levels with only a backpack to help you. Although seemingly useless, this backpack will be your key to progressing through the levels. Pick up coins and put them in your backpack. Your backpack will be really heavy, but you can take your coins and throw them to new places! drop your backpack and use it to climb up high ledges, or do whatever else you might need to do, to achieve victory in King of Coins!
DEV NOTES: - This was a fun game to make. I took me two days to complete, and a lot of that time was spent during nights. I almost regret it, because I am really busy with school work. But it was really fun to program a game, as it's been a while since I last did it.
I am very happy with how the sound effects turned out. All of them were made by me on a Zoom H1 microphone.
I wish that I had more time to create more levels, but I am a one-man team, and i got too tired towards the end.
Sorry that i can't build for MAC! I don't have one, and too busy to emulate it. :(
If you want more levels, please tell me in the comments, and I might get to it soon! Sorry for the lack of levels :(
KNOWN BUGS: - The display icon that hovers over backpacks will disappear sometimes if you reload the scene. The game will still be beatable, but if it bugs you, reload again, and it might come back. - If you have too many coins on the screen, any text will glitch out.
DEV LOG: - Added splash screen, and .exe icon. - Limited resolution changes to 16:9 aspect ratio only to fix UI bugs (Thanks, @holyblackcat!)
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qzdruilrebdzwr6/AAATyATcEARHf2NGkfGMM-0ma?dl=0 |
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/king-of-coins |
Ratings
| Overall | 111th | 3.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 112th | 3.895⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 161th | 3.711⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 292th | 3.778⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 429th | 3.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 189th | 3.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 853th | 2.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 656th | 3.167⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 13🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
I enjoyed this a lot. The puzzle design is good and the art and sound work together well. The increasing weight is a great way of using the theme.
## Suggestions
I didn't see a way to do this, but some way to reload the level would be nice. Just a quick button press to start over.
There is a bug though, the edges of the screen are clipped on low resolutions, making it impossible to see the gui and parts of the level.
Glad you liked it :)
I gotta check your game out!
Trying to balance the load between several backpacks while your coins keep bouncing back at you isn't the most compelling part of the game, but I guess one gets used to it over time. Maybe using the second mouse button to drop your coins with less power could be a nice option, though.
Great work anyway, I would love to see more levels added.
- Gameplay is smooth as butter.
- Audio is great! (Did you do it all by yourself?)
- The game is fun to play and the puzzles are good.
- Over all a very well made entry.
I sympathize with the feeling of neglecting other things in favor of LD for a while.. :D
If theres any one thing which had me confuse for a bit was how to drop down from platforms, which I would assume was going to be the arrow down key, but it was actually space + arrow down key, but really thats just a small detail, overall I thought it was a great entry.
Nice work!