Keep The Runner Alive by Life_Lich
2D puzzle game, where you place items on a platformer map, to help the runner through the map alive.
Please note that items can be placed in the air.
I can see alot of people complay that you cant remove single items, you can do it by selecting any item and then click on the item you want to remove.
There is a bug that if you manualt remove one item the remove all items stop working, “i forgot to remove the item for a list that contains items you have plased, so when you remove all items, it gets a null exeption :-(“
| Youtube | https://life-lich.itch.io/keep-the-runner-alive |
| Youtube | https://github.com/LifeLich/LudumDare46 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-runner-alive |
Ratings
| Overall | 883th | 3.63⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 438th | 3.739⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 661th | 3.568⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1650th | 3.455⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1355th | 2.725⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
I would recommend making it so that it's easier to select/deselect items, it's not obvious in the selection screen how to place items.
I would also add a UI for removing single items, it's annoying resetting the entire setup just because one item is in the wrong place.
It's also not intuitive how the jumping platforms work.
The placement of objects need a bit of adjustements I guess. I understood, after a while that you can remove a place object when you have another one in hand but it as it's limit when you don't have any more objects to place.
Love the character choice with differents abilities.
**praise:** I thought I had found a way to cheat by placing jumpers so my character would just jump over everything, but then I noticed the incentive to get all the flags! Very clever game mechanics and level design :)
**feedback:** The game UI could use some polish. This kind of thing is tedious, but it can help improve the feel and experience incredibly!
> Though it was a little annoying that i couldn’t delete just one piece,
@batswigner just noticed that you can delete a piece by "placing" one that was already there.
NOTE: Once you fall from the first hole of 2nd level the character doesnt die (with the undead at least), just lies underwater forever lol, and once you run out of springs you cannot recover tehem, i had to turn back to menu and restart the level.
I was surprised by how complete this game is! Many characters and levels. Well done!
Another pretencious request, add some music! :)
By the way, I liked the monster design, it was original and kind of mysterious