Upright by BoltKey
You can accelerate only in two directions. But what if you want to get to the other two sides? To help mr. Green reach finish in each level, make clever use of the environment, which can either help you, or kill you, and on top of that, endure all of mr. Green's never ending comments and allusions.
This game gets hard pretty quickly and is suitable for experienced players in this genre, don't be surprised. Can you finish all 15 levels? Good luck.
Controls: up and right (duh)
EDIT: So, apparently, I made this game way too hard. This exact thing happened with one of my older projects. It seems like I'll never learn... Anyway, I decided to quickly make a walkthrough/speedrun/whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuV5ur1HG64&feature=youtu.be. Don't mind the watermark, I wanted to upload it ASAP and didn't want to look for proper tools. So if you want to see how it's done, or want to see some of the later levels, check it out. I hope this kind of stuff is not a violation of LD rules.
This game gets hard pretty quickly and is suitable for experienced players in this genre, don't be surprised. Can you finish all 15 levels? Good luck.
Controls: up and right (duh)
EDIT: So, apparently, I made this game way too hard. This exact thing happened with one of my older projects. It seems like I'll never learn... Anyway, I decided to quickly make a walkthrough/speedrun/whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuV5ur1HG64&feature=youtu.be. Don't mind the watermark, I wanted to upload it ASAP and didn't want to look for proper tools. So if you want to see how it's done, or want to see some of the later levels, check it out. I hope this kind of stuff is not a violation of LD rules.
| Web (original LD release) | http://boltkey.cz/upright_ |
| Web (Post-deadline release on Kongregate with new level pack) | http://www.kongregate.com/games/absolutel/upright |
| Source (Github) | https://github.com/BoltKey/ld34 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=50511 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 60% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.57 | 233 |
| Audio | 3.08 | 285 |
| Fun | 3.43 | 278 |
| Graphics | 2.41 | 804 |
| Humor | 3.77 | 55 |
| Innovation | 3.86 | 98 |
| Mood | 3.16 | 347 |
| Theme | 4.07 | 184 |
It was super difficult, but the little quotes kept me from raging (too hard). Excellent job! :)
But wow, well implemented, love the humor and the idea with the two directions + bumping, very neat and well done (although the music sounded kind of familiar)
But really haaaaaaaaaard
Little bit of critic:
Maybe not using such plain colors (or atleast not red)
Maybe adding a option to skip a level as someone might
be stuck in one
Maybe making the text the square tells pop up more
Love your game too. A bit too hard for me but it was fun playing! Funny texts are really nice addition. Music is great.
Overall nice work there!
But it feels kinda slow. Maybe if that game had something like coins in mario, that would guide the player that would help. And I also think the gamespeed could be a little higher.
I'm not that much of a fan of your graphics, but it is 100x times better than having bad textures (which is common around here...).
The box talking is fun, but I had hardly time looking at what it said.
The pixel's comments are a really nice touch.
You could try ramping up the speed or having some visualization of your expected trajectory.
The commentary from the player adds an extra bit of charm. The audio is listenable I guess, but those graphics kinda hurt to watch.
With all that in mind, I see potential in this with some more work.
Well done oh and this:
"Hi random stranger... you are not supposed to read this, go win the game. If you are reading through my code, I am sorry for all the ugly duplications and similar evil things in my code. I am learning... But I am glad someone is interested."