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[charlestheoaf]

A 2 player adventurous romp. Players take the roll of rivaling explorers determined to be the first to climb to the top of this or that particular crevice. "What rewards await you atop this hearty slab of rock," you say? Whatever you seek!

WEB PLAYER

Built with Processing, requires Java.

Both players start at the bottom of a mountainous crevice and must make their way to the top. You progress upward by shooting cables from your snazzy horizontal grappling guns, effectively building yourselves a "ladder" to the top. The catch is that each gun has a long reload time, so both players must make use of one another's cables to get to the top. Oh, and pressing "action" while near the other player will knock them down.

If you play a couple of rounds, you'll see a couple surprises.

I've been into indie game development for a while (and have been a long time lurker here), but this is my first real foray into programming. I really wanted to join in on the fun with you guys, and I came up with the idea by thinking "what type of game am I actually capable of coding?"

[charlestheoaf]

Yes, it the game is currently playable. No, it is not currently pretty:

At the moment, the winning condition is jumping out of the screen and crashing the game.

By the way, if anyone knows how I could go about allowing control config options to let people with different keyboards play, I'd love the help! I assume I could store values for controls in a text file, then read that file and pass the values into a variable within the program? That would be my plan, but I haven't figured out file i/o yet.

[charlestheoaf]

Refining the art style, just have a background image in place:

I'm new to pixel art.

The game also now has proper win conditions, replay screen etc!

[Inanimate]

At first I was thinking Ice Climbers, from the aesthetic. I really like the idea, and it sounds mighty interesting; perhaps adding winds the higher you get, even enemies, and perhaps 'unstable cliffs', could liven it up?

[charlestheoaf]

I've been thinking about various ways to add variety with different shaped levels. Wind might be a good idea too.

But for now, I'm just going to see how much of this I can figure out how to program in before the deadline

[charlestheoaf]

I've been bogged down getting a new job and a few other things, but progress is being made slowly and steadily! The game feels solid and has no known bugs (until I add more features, at least )
 
The game will features sounds and a few little ditties from the illustrious Jocelyn Reyes.

[charlestheoaf]

The game is fully functional and feels great. It's somewhat skill-based, but it works well for gamers and non-gamers alike.

It's intentionally very simple, now I am finishing art & animations and m'lady is adding some awesome sounds. I'm also going to spend the rest of the compo adding extra features, like traps or powerups in the environment that you can take advantage of. It'll probably be 2-3 levels that repeat, and each in each "round" different traps will show up.

[RadiationBLUR]

Look's Great.

Pandas for you: 

cant wait to play it!


-RadiationBlur

[charlestheoaf]

Thanks for the pandas!

Alternate snow theme:

[charlestheoaf]

Got a bit of a soundtrack in now. Just trying to add some extra polish, features, and hopefully animations before the deadline!!!

[charlestheoaf]

It's DONE! Check first post for download links & info.

or click for windows download right here: http://www.filedropper.com/creviceclimberswindows

[charlestheoaf]

I've had this theme song stuck in my head all day, I hope everyone else gets to enjoy it as much

Hmm, now that I'm on my Mac at work, I realize that .rar was not a good file choice. I'll put up a .zip when I get home tonight. I'll also put up a web player, at least as long as I don't upset my host for using too much bandwidth 

Would .zip be preferable for Linux as well?

[charlestheoaf]

Put a link to play it in your browser, this will be up until I upset my webhost

New mac build coming soon.

[oyog]

When I try downloading for Windows it's just a loop of clicking "Download" and entering the captcha.

"File Details:
Filename: CreviceClimbers_windows.rar
Size: 0 KB, Type: rar
Date Posted: Monday, 28th February 2011, 01:1javascript:void(0);1"

I'll play the web build when I have a friend around, though.

[Theon]

Download link is broken (windows)