Todo the Tea-Mouse - Prototype 1
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davidnFor a few weeks now, I've been saying that I'll put something playable of Todo up, but I just never got it into a position where it felt remotely presentable, even with the caveat that this was not complete work. However, tonight I think I've got it to a pretty good place to call a first prototype - most of the interface works and you can complete a task, so you can see the rough mechanics of the game. Have a go at this!
http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/games/todo/zip/todoprototype1.zip
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire a "PipeBit" (which you can't use yet) and collect all 71 available Quest Points. Use the arrow keys with X to jump, and Up to interact with things - Q brings up the menu. You'll find that the game has some holes of varying degrees of hilarity and you have a couple of abilities which you won't really have from the start of the game, but feel free to poke around and do the unexpected - you may be surprised at what I've thought of (or more likely what I haven't).
It may seem slightly disappointing that I've been working on this for a few weeks to achieve roughly three minutes of gameplay, but so much of that time has gone into the backend - taking the base Crystal Towers 2 engine (which you'll see evidence of) and doing it... right. I've grown to love the Hatogate scripting engine as it grows more and more into what the game needs it to do - the game is pretty easy to expand now, and the game so far serves as a decent showcase of what it can do in terms of interacting with objects and characters. The scripts and rooms are all plain text in the "rooms" folder, so you can open them up and fiddle around with them if you like. Best of luck with that.
I haven't been as pleased with my game creation in a long time!
http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/games/todo/zip/todoprototype1.zip
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire a "PipeBit" (which you can't use yet) and collect all 71 available Quest Points. Use the arrow keys with X to jump, and Up to interact with things - Q brings up the menu. You'll find that the game has some holes of varying degrees of hilarity and you have a couple of abilities which you won't really have from the start of the game, but feel free to poke around and do the unexpected - you may be surprised at what I've thought of (or more likely what I haven't).
It may seem slightly disappointing that I've been working on this for a few weeks to achieve roughly three minutes of gameplay, but so much of that time has gone into the backend - taking the base Crystal Towers 2 engine (which you'll see evidence of) and doing it... right. I've grown to love the Hatogate scripting engine as it grows more and more into what the game needs it to do - the game is pretty easy to expand now, and the game so far serves as a decent showcase of what it can do in terms of interacting with objects and characters. The scripts and rooms are all plain text in the "rooms" folder, so you can open them up and fiddle around with them if you like. Best of luck with that.
I haven't been as pleased with my game creation in a long time!
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Date: 2013-08-21 01:53 pm (UTC)They've pretty much been imported from Crystal Towers 2 as-is just now, so the distance they hurl you is definitely off (the gravity values have been adjusted from CT2 but those haven't). Deciding what to do about the distance travelled if holding/not holding away is a tricky issue, because some players will habitually hold towards the wall and others won't...
I noticed the awkwardness of jumping at them from below as well, and just thinking about it, the idea of the feel of grappling on and hanging still for a moment before gradually accelerating down is great - I'll see how that works out.
The boundary at the edge of the stage was intentional, to prevent players accidentally moving between areas if you reached the edge while jumping... I hadn't considered that people might want to do it intentionally. It raises a few issues with how to handle it which may not be as simple as it first appears, but I will bear it in mind.
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Date: 2013-08-21 02:04 pm (UTC)How would you reach the edge of the screen accidentally by jumping? It seems like putting in invisible walls to work around a level design shortcoming is a strange way to approach it, if I'm understanding right?