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[Digital Awakening]

Rush to Adventure is a retro style game inspired by old 8-bit Nintendo classics. You arrive on an island, only to discover it is almost overrun by monsters. Assist the islanders, level up your hero, find new weapons and uncover the secrets of the island. Can you rid the island of its curse?

This alpha release contains about 20-30 minutes of content but offers a lot of replayability. Containing 10 short, action packed levels and 4 difficulties. You are also scored and ranked at the end of each level. Trying to S-rank every level is quite a challenge. Play on insane difficulty at your own risk.

"The feeling of running through a level, nailing every hit, getting perfect jumps, and navigating it perfectly. It becomes a dance. I really, really enjoy that. It's quite a hard thing to achieve in game design. You've done it, and I love it. Can't get enough of this game." @greenlig

For downloads, screeshots and more movies visit: digitalawakening.se

[Ancient Account]

Looks very interesting...
Trying it now!

Edit: This game is fun! Anybody who sees this, must try this.

[Digital Awakening]

Thanks, much appreciated

[Majestic]

 - Initially I didn't understand the icons M I T at the bottom of the main menu screen. Probably should explain what those are at some point or spell them out at the beginning of the game.

 - Might want to put the jump key somewhere on the left to make it easier for the player. My hands felt cramped moving with the arrow keys then trying to jump with the enter key right above it.

 - The exhausted counter is nice

 - I like how you give instructions with the signposts, thats a good touch to give players an idea of whats going on and what to do

 

Overall a nice solid game. Simple and adventurous. I didn't expect to play for so long lol

[Ancient Account]

- Initially I didn't understand the icons M I T at the bottom of the main menu screen. Probably should explain what those are at some point or spell them out at the beginning of the game.

 - Might want to put the jump key somewhere on the left to make it easier for the player. My hands felt cramped moving with the arrow keys then trying to jump with the enter key right above it.

 - The exhausted counter is nice

 - I like how you give instructions with the signposts, thats a good touch to give players an idea of whats going on and what to do


Overall a nice solid game. Simple and adventurous. I didn't expect to play for so long lol

1. M for Map, I for Inventory and T for Time. I guessed them. Press the button M, I, T for opening the respective menu.
2. You can change the controls in the option menu(Esc to open). I have made them:
Up = Up arrow
Down = Down arrow
Left = left arrow
Right = right arrow
Jump = Z
Attack = X
Special = C
Menu = Esc

Hope that helps!

[Digital Awakening]

- Initially I didn't understand the icons M I T at the bottom of the main menu screen. Probably should explain what those are at some point or spell them out at the beginning of the game.

 - Might want to put the jump key somewhere on the left to make it easier for the player. My hands felt cramped moving with the arrow keys then trying to jump with the enter key right above it.

 - The exhausted counter is nice

 - I like how you give instructions with the signposts, thats a good touch to give players an idea of whats going on and what to do

 

Overall a nice solid game. Simple and adventurous. I didn't expect to play for so long lol

Thanks for the feedback

As Blaze06h says the buttons are for Map, Inventory and Time. There's also D for changing the difficulty. BTW, your progress is saved separately for each difficulty. I've been thinking about unlocking these buttons one by one as you play. Or at least have signs for them. But with only 4 map screens for now I don't want to spam the player with more signs. You will be able to configure these later.

As long as you don't connect a controller, up also works for jumping. I only use Enter to confirm. I guess I could have Enter always be confirm and have a different jump button. And as Blaze06h says you can configure the keys as you like in the Options.

[Digital Awakening]

Both download links have now been updated. The new versions have 3 bugfixes:

1. The Broad Sword is now properly read from the save file. Previously it would disappear from the inventory after restarting the game. If it's equipped you can still use it but it can no longer be selected. If you have bought it already you need to delete the save file (from the options menu) and start the game over.

2. On Insane, you can now attack immediately when the hero turns unexhausted.

3. If you hit menu when you land into water etc. and exit back to the World Map. The game no longer transports you to where you were last time when playing the level again.

Some more feedback would be much appreciated

Now I'm off to try to S-rank every level on Insane!

[Ancient Account]

Update! YAY!

[Endurion]

Very nice!

The one thing that annoyed be at first is the huge window with big pixels. I actually had to move back with my stool to look at it properly. An option to lower the resolution would be nice.

Also, it's not immediately obvious that you need to go out the right side. Some sort of exit or stage goal to get to could be added.

Other than that, very nice so far! Played it to the alpha end. I expect some different challenges later on?

[Ancient Account]

Also, it's not immediately obvious that you need to go out the right side. Some sort of exit or stage goal to get to could be added.

In old platformers, the exit was usually at the right side (See: Duke Nukem 2 - it was a platformer, not an FPS game like it's successor 'Duke Nukem Forever').

Though, nowadays games don't work like that, so it's pretty hard to guess.
I like this type of exit, but I think, if there are some background structures that hints that it's exit, it would be great!

[Digital Awakening]

Very nice!

Thank you

The one thing that annoyed be at first is the huge window with big pixels. I actually had to move back with my stool to look at it properly. An option to lower the resolution would be nice.

I guess it takes a bit getting used to. You can change the resolution in the setup file, just open it in Notepad etc. I plan to add options for this in the future.

Also, it's not immediately obvious that you need to go out the right side. Some sort of exit or stage goal to get to could be added.

I thought that would be obvious. An arrow sign wouldn't be hard to add. Could even be automatically placed with code.

Other than that, very nice so far! Played it to the alpha end. I expect some different challenges later on?

I hope you got through the tower?  This is still pre-alpha. There is loads to come in terms of content. For example: If you look at the inventory, there will be a total of 14 weapons. Only 4 in this version. I define alpha as most functions complete and then beta will be a focus on content.

[Digital Awakening]

There's an article up on Indie Games

[S16VATR]

dese graphix r actualy prety sik

[Digital Awakening]

dese graphix r actualy prety sik

Thanks :-) I hope to improve the look for the alpha.

[Digital Awakening]

I got a developer diary set up on my website now. There will be more stuff coming in the near future.

[Digital Awakening]

And right after making that post I noticed that OhMyNugget uploaded a playthrough of the entire alpha. So if you don't want to download and play the game you can watch him play it instead.

[Ancient Account]

And right after making that post I noticed that OhMyNugget uploaded a playthrough of the entire alpha. So if you don't want to download and play the game you can watch him play it instead.

Downloading and playing the game is easier and simpler than watching a video about it.
Everybody should play this game. Nice platformer is nice!

[jdpalmer]

I downloaded this and played it on my Ouya last night and the game is looking great!  Keep up the good work Magnus.

[Digital Awakening]

Thanks guys

Here's a look at the new level artwork I am working on. I would appreciate some feedback on the look.

[Ancient Account]

Nice to see a background landscape. A lot better.