An Exercise In Futility [Contest Entry]

[saintrunner]

you should make it so the user can choose which 'character' to use! lol I'd be playin' as the jumping bean all the time

[LincolnB]

Haha on the first post, when I mentioned modes, what that is is pretty much different graphics styles, like your character sprite changes, and all the tiles take on a different shape. There's a retro graphics mode, and your character has a cool tail looking thing (slightly different from the screenie in the first post, I changed it to look less like a blatant Graviter rip off), there's a smiley face mode, where you have a bunch of little black smiley faces that follow you around (you can throw them), there's a zero-gravity mode, meant to simulate outer space, there's a jumping bean - type mode, and the final mode is a reverse gravity mode, and you turn into a space ship.

Yeah, it's a little weird Should be fun, tho. (I hope)

[saintrunner]

Sounds really cool! I can't wait to play it

[LincolnB]

Thanks! Update in the first post, with screenie

[saintrunner]

Looks good!

[LincolnB]

Okay, I have a nice 4-scale menu screen up and running, but I'm on vacation right now, so I can't post any screenies yet.

[LincolnB]

*BUMP

Finished! Screenie uploaded, download available later.

[parserp]

maybe put images in [img] tags?

also, I see it is an app. how big is it when compiled normally?

also, looks AMAZING. keep up the good work.

EDIT: and is the munu that slow on calc?

[squidgetx]

Hm, so it's kind of like part-simul,part-graviter/sandland....interesting..I'm impressed as to how many game elements you managed to fit in....you've got the bullet/arrays along with what looks like tile masking and/or intelligent collision checks, etc. Nice job.

[Spyro543]

So will these different modes aid in solving levels/puzzles?
EDIT: Just saw the screenies. Never mind.

[LincolnB]

maybe put images in [img] tags?

also, I see it is an app. how big is it when compiled normally?

also, looks AMAZING. keep up the good work.

EDIT: and is the munu that slow on calc?

Thanks! and no, the menu's a little faster on-calc. I'm releasing it as an app or as a 1450(ish) byte program. Also, I didn't put it in img tags to prevent browser lag...wouldn't have made much difference but whatev.

Hm, so it's kind of like part-simul,part-graviter/sandland....interesting..I'm impressed as to how many game elements you managed to fit in....you've got the bullet/arrays along with what looks like tile masking and/or intelligent collision checks, etc. Nice job.

Thanks! Haha well that's kind of funny because I took heavy inspiration from those three games. All the collisions are completely pixel based, so I didn't "need" the tilemap, per se, it is entirely dependent on pxl-test() commands.

[DJ Omnimaga]

How do you run the game?

In WabbitEmu it freezes on launch (using Doors CS btw)

EDIT: Nvm, apparently it only runs on real hardware...

[LincolnB]

Yeah, I've gotten reports of it crashing on emulators.

[Hayleia]

Do you use Fullrene ? Programs with Fullrene crash on Wabbit (at least on my computer) while they run on my calc.

[parserp]

I love this game!!!
except for the one minigame where the spinny thing follows you around.
I haven't been able to get past it yet.

EDIT: oh, you are supposed to shoot them!