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Crushy by Balduvian Dead

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made by Balduvian Dead for LD 42 (COMPO)

Top Disclaimer: You might die by hitting the corner of a block...

This is Crushy! Made in 48 hours for the compo. You are a cat and you have to jump up the level to escape the crushing walls! Not all paths may be possible so watch out!

Use WASD to move

Use SPACE to menu select

(Use Q to skip intro)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqBJqRo7Sg&feature=youtu.be

Ok so here's the full rundown: Each level has segments that begin closing in as soon as you see them. The levels may not fit together perfectly, but if you don't jump up fast, either the scrolling will catch up to you or the walls will crush you in. Oh yeah, and you can also die from the spikes. Disclaimer: this game is hard, and you'll often run into dead ends due to bad map design. Yeah, i ran out of time for levels, but! But!!! There is hope! The game is completable. The main goal of the game is to of course beat all 4 levels, but the real challenge is to do it as fast as you can. Luckily for you, there's a built-in timer and record keeping system that show you your best time.

I hope all of you playing have fun! Despite the many, many glitches...

Tools Used:

Eclipse, Photoshop, Chronolapse, Audacity, Beepbox, My Unicomp Model M keyboard

Made using Embgine

The fancy name i'm calling my lwjgl and game engine

Source code https://github.com/gatcuddy/Crushy
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/ot0kpfb85p21lq1/crushy.jar?dl=0
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/crushy

Ratings

Overall 379th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 520th 2.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 435th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 369th 3.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 262th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 173th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 239th 2.722⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 212th 3.25⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

Mertios
13. Aug 2018 · 04:45 UTC
Unsure how to play a .jar file. :confused:
🎤 Balduvian Dead
13. Aug 2018 · 04:50 UTC
@mertios
You can run it if you're on windows and have Java installed
batmanasb
13. Aug 2018 · 04:51 UTC
Oh man, the game maybe starts out a little way to hard. You gotta ease people into the mechanics, but this just feels impossible without having built it and knowing the exact steps to take.
Phlip45
13. Aug 2018 · 04:55 UTC
Art style was great. I like how the crunchy music and sound effects really fit the old cr tv SNES style. The game was hard and I did not complete it. I did die a few times to just jumping into the side of a block. I think the game thought I was being crushed but there was nothing else around and I didn't fall off the bottom of the screen. So probably just some wonky hit detection. Overall great job. Have fun out there!
Mertios
13. Aug 2018 · 05:20 UTC
@balduvian-dead I installed Java and managed to play it! The game was good, but I agree with @batmanasb and @phlip45: the first section is way too difficult. Other than that, I loved the graphic style, music, and retro CRT display feel.
13. Aug 2018 · 17:10 UTC
The game is fun and the effects are spot on although maybe a bit distracting. The cat is cute as well. I too had some hit detection issues particularly on parts where two platforms where moving through each other and I was standing on both of them. That said the game was fun and I personally enjoyed that it was challenging.
PopDaddyGames
15. Aug 2018 · 05:45 UTC
Excellent looks! Great effort- keep it up in the upcoming jams! :)
Darkrabbitgames
15. Aug 2018 · 09:48 UTC
Lovely game! Actually, lovely might not be accurate :P It is very tough! Personally, I'd prefer to have a jump button on something like spacebar instead of the up button. But aside from that, Really awesome :)
C0nst4ntin
15. Aug 2018 · 11:20 UTC
Nice Entry!
Omni
16. Aug 2018 · 02:27 UTC
I thought everything fit really well together. The effect was also really nice on with the gameplay. Awesome little game jam game. Good work!
saoi-games
18. Aug 2018 · 08:22 UTC
I tried to play your game my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames, however I couldn't capture the game play.

I have rated your game

The biggest problem I had was with the controls. I'm used to having a separate key for jumping. Since jump was mapped to the up key it actually made it harder to complete the puzzles in a fast enough manner.

It was a cute concept, and I liked how you tried to vary the puzzles. I"m sorry I couldn't get it to be captured on the stream properly.
sylvie
18. Aug 2018 · 11:46 UTC
This was a nice game with a cute kitty. The graphics and music were great. I mostly liked trying to find the correct path through the maps, but I found level 4 a bit too long and difficult.