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[Hempuli‽]

Hello, gentlemen!  

It seems it's time for another platformer-with-a-twist, this time in a similar fashion to Flickerstrings! Jump, Copy, Paste features a mechanic that at least I haven't seen earlier, and it circles around copying and pasting parts of the game levels. The game was supposed to have a story of some sort, but due to an immensely infuriating and nonsense glitch I decided to get done with the game quickly.

* CONTROLS *

A + D = move about
W = jump
Left mouse button = choose the area to copy, release to perform. After copying, you can select a new area with another left click.
Right mouse button = paste the copied area.
R = restart
Esc = Quit

Hey! There is a slight chance that you'll encounter a very random and weird-looking graphical glitch. If you do, please report what you did before the glitch appeared!

Download the game from this link.

Download page.

Screenshots:

[TwilightVulpine]

Interesting gameplay concept, but letting the player copy areas of indeterminate size makes it a little messy. Why not to restrict the copy to multiples of the tile size used and, when pasting, to snap it to a grid?

[J. R. Hill]

I loved it, took about 40 minutes.

I think on the first copy bit, it would be useful to specify "drag with left mouse button" because (through a glitch) just clicking with the left mouse tends to copy the entire screen.

[Zaratustra]

I loved it

I loved it.

Kind of weird how pasting "background" will erase some things but not others.

[TheDustin]

I'm looking forward to playing this when I'm not on a Mac, will give detailed criticism after I get a playthrough or two in.

[Dom2D]

Looks great, plays fine, great mechanic. TwilightVulpine has a good point, you could really create great puzzles with a limited or predetermined size for the copy paste. But still, good job

[Hempuli‽]

Dom2D, TwilightVulpine: Indeed, that would allow some nastier puzzles, but I wanted to give the player as much freedom as possible while still having some sort of puzzle elements around. I'm not sure how well I managed at that, though.

Zaratustra: Could you explain a bit, apart from the player, what you couldn't copy?

Jr Hill: Sure thing, I'll fix those!

Thanks for the comments!

[TwilightVulpine]

Zaratustra: Could you explain a bit, apart from the player, what you couldn't copy?

I think he meant some objects can be only copied, but not erased (by pasting background over it. You can't erase portals and boxes, for an example I suppose that lamps shouldn't be erased, but copying them by mistake can make the level unsolvable(at least until you die) and I did not see a purpose for copying them. I'm not sure if doors and coins should be copyable too.

[Hempuli‽]

Everything you see there, apart from the guy and the counters, are copiable, unless they've been fixed to darker wall tiles. But yeah, I see what you say about the lamps. They serve no purpose other than decoration, but I didn't think anyone could get stuck with them.

[TwilightVulpine]

Everything you see there, apart from the guy and the counters, are copiable, unless they've been fixed to darker wall tiles. But yeah, I see what you say about the lamps. They serve no purpose other than decoration, but I didn't think anyone could get stuck with them.

I thought I couldn't paste over lamps, but checking again I think I was mistaken.

Edit: I will check again later. I remember having some problem with the lamps in a level with boxes and portals, but I need to make sure it wasn't just something I thought I couldn't do or if I didn't copy correctly before placing over the lamps. Either way, it doesn't stop from placing walls, so it wouldn't be a problem, I think.

Edit 2: Just checked. The game is fine, I was the problem.

[Fifth]

Heh, nice stuff, once again; clever, and very well executed.  There were some tricky puzzles in there, and it was enjoyable to the end.

And I think the messy nature of copy/pasting by eye was just fine, and am glad you weren't restrictive about the size of the copy/paste box.  I think it's best when games keep the restrictions off of their interesting central mechanics, and instead find other ways to keep things challenging.