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[jotapeh]

FINISHED. This game is, for all intents and purposes, finished. This was my first stab at making a game with a proper beginning and end, and my first ever contribution to a TIGSource Compo (or any competition, really!)

Thanks so much to everyone who offered suggestions, support and a very special thanks to the talented artists and musicians who contributed such amazing and inspiring assets for Part 1.

I've learned a lot, had tons of fun, and I can't wait for the next one.  

Final Contest Submission: http://mushroomer.wegetsignal.ca/

credits:
Sprites, Tiles - Arachne
Font -Rynen10k's "FatKidDL2" Font

Music (Wind FX Intro) - jrhill
Music (Boss theme) -  cheapshot
Music (Cave theme) - JorgeBoscan

[Joaquim]

looking great.

[jotapeh]

Thanks. I couldn't put this down so I spent the last several hours fixing up collision detection and adding some other neat goodies.

Music may take a while to load! But will do so in the background as you 'play' (although there is no objective yet, heh.) 

[SirNiko]

Looking good thus far.

If you jump up against a wall and hold towards the wall, you can "hang" from the wall. Glitch or intentional?

I like the idea of a "Get out fast" game. Hopefully you'll get us an updated version with some obstacles next!

-SirNiko

[jotapeh]

Most definitely a glitch! I'll be hammering that out soon, because the next step is to add ramps and so forth. Then booster items that will increase your speed beyond normal running capability... and of course, enemies!

Also, the level format is XML, so if anyone would like to take a run at designing a level, it's not too hard! I could even be prodded into making a proper editor.

[György Straub]

That cloud effect in the background looks fantastic; very nice touch.

[X3N]

Looks cool.
Needs grappling hook  ?

[jotapeh]

Thanks guys! Yeah, the cloud effect is something I am particularly proud of. Because Flash isn't particularly fast at dynamic noise processing/blurring/color transforming, the cloud layer is completely preprocessed and revealed by a shifting perlin noise map as the alpha channel. I was quite happy with the result.

I love the idea of a grappling hook, X3N. I will definitely try to include something like that. Wouldn't it be awesome if you could grab a speed power up, run, leap and grapple over an otherwise impossible gap, thereby shaving valuable seconds off your time and saving your life!? That would be excellent.

Unfortunately, a man's gotta eat so updates will have to wait til later tonight.

[saluk]

Game is unplayably slow for me I think it might be the clouds, but I'm not sure.

[jotapeh]

Game is unplayably slow for me I think it might be the clouds, but I'm not sure.

If you could be so kind, please let me know which version of Flash you are using, as well as your system specs?

Despite being a Flash game, this does take a bit of horsepower. Browsers will find it hard to cope if you have a lot of windows open, especially if other flash pieces are running. So far I've tested it on a number of Intel Core 2 Duo Macs, it runs well on all of them.

The clouds are definitely the most graphic intensive part... I may include an option to disable them if lots of people find this runs sluggish.. or I may try to find a way to optimize them even more... hmm.

[jotapeh]

Minor updates tonight:

1) Collision works better now (no more grabbing walls)
2) Press the 'e' key for a surprise!

[cheapshot]

I think this game needs a BOSS!

[saluk]

I'm using flash 10 I think, firefox 3.5, windows 7. I thought I would right click on it to try and lower the quality, but then it froze and I had to force-kill the browser. Lol @ windows. Although I'm quite certain it wouldn't run very well on my linux machine, which struggles with youtube, hehe. Most flash runs just fine on my windows machine, I'm not sure why this one is such a hog. My browser actually freezes while loading the game too, which is pretty strange.

[X3N]

Thanks guys! Yeah, the cloud effect is something I am particularly proud of. Because Flash isn't particularly fast at dynamic noise processing/blurring/color transforming, the cloud layer is completely preprocessed and revealed by a shifting perlin noise map as the alpha channel. I was quite happy with the result.

I love the idea of a grappling hook, X3N. I will definitely try to include something like that. Wouldn't it be awesome if you could grab a speed power up, run, leap and grapple over an otherwise impossible gap, thereby shaving valuable seconds off your time and saving your life!? That would be excellent.

Unfortunately, a man's gotta eat so updates will have to wait til later tonight.

Does anyone here know the name of the indie game which featured much grappling? I can't remember if it ever came out, only saw videos.. I think you were a chick and you flew around at high speeds inside a cave shooting at things. Not Metroid, not BionicCommando, Not YGTGH, Not HookChamp. Could be good reference?

cheapshot: I think this game needs a BOSS!

Just throwing ideas out here, but what if you didn't fight the boss directly, but had to lead it into other monsters / pits / lava pools with your excellent mobility? Maybe said boss could wallwalk and doublejump 

[cheapshot]

cheapshot: I think this game needs a BOSS!

Just throwing ideas out here, but what if you didn't fight the boss directly, but had to lead it into other monsters / pits / lava pools with your excellent mobility? Maybe said boss could wallwalk and doublejump 

There's an idea!