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[J. R. Hill]

Ow, got stuck in a short hallway and couldn't dodge their stars!

[Endurion]

The rewrite is paying off, getting things in way faster than before. Working on the first boss and the main areas.

[Endurion]

Just got rid of the most annoying part, menu, gui, options, etc. There's a new demo for you. In the current progress the player cannot use the rotation powers, he needs to acquire them first (they're still in there, expect complications though).

Options for sound, music and key bindings are there. There are no sound and music though

The settings and savegame are stored in the users application data folder, in a subfolder "GR Games\\The Journey". Would be great if somebody could check if the default key bindings are working off the bat; i've had trouble with that before.

Have fun and let me know of any problems!

Click here for new preview: http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/webmisc/Tigger_Preview1.zip

[Endurion]

Things are progressing nicely. Now it's to design content, content and more content. And avoid dead ends throughout the stages. Gulp.

I've added most music, sounds effects are still missing though. Right now the game plays quite linearely, the explorative parts are yet to come

The new preview is available at http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/webmisc/TheJourney_Preview.zip

[Tempel]

Totally badass.  The beginning area is a little boring; seems like any old platforming landscape, not really taking advantage of the rotating.  But then I got past the first boss and the world got crazy and I got lost.  But fighting a giant ninja by dropping out the ground from under him?  Totally badass.

[Endurion]

Thanks
Yeah, the beginning is sorta bland, but if you get rotation from the start you're pretty much invincible.

[Kazerad]

I can't get past the first boss here . Once I fail a jump over him, he dribbles me on the wall until I'm down to 2 HP.

[Endurion]

I'll look into that! I'll increase the no-hurt-delay so you can "fly" safe outside his collision area.

Note for a safe jump off the wall just press up and only after that left or right.

[Endurion]

Frantically tying bits together and finishing levels. I also still need to do the end part. I'm optimistic on a finished entry though.

[Endurion]

Yes!! It is done! There should be no hard bugs (like crashing or dead ends).

Have fun!



Download here http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/The Journey.zip

[dariusk]

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I can't get past the very first area. I beat the two ninjas, then I go through the hall and I get to the part where I'm blocked. My rotate buttons don't actually do anything at this point and I can't seem to walljump onto the next platform...

[Endurion]

Where are you stuck after the first two ninjas?
In the next room you just need to jump onto the trees and walk through the bottom right part.
On the grey wall part the door on the bridge won't open, just fall down and walk through the entrance there.

The rotate buttons will come in later (there's a tad of plain jump'n'running first).

[Endurion]

Sorry for the inconvenience, my homepage seems to be out since today morning. I'll have the provider looking into it.

[Endurion]

Yay, homepage and download are back up again.

[Pishtaco]

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I can't get past the very first area. I beat the two ninjas, then I go through the hall and I get to the part where I'm blocked. My rotate buttons don't actually do anything at this point and I can't seem to walljump onto the next platform...

I'm stuck here too. I can wall-jump onto the first platform after beating the ninjas at the start (although it took me a while to realize that this was actually a platform, rather than part of the tree) but I don't see how to get on to the second platform. I try to stick to the wall facing it but that doesn't seem to work.

[Endurion]

Sounds like you cannot jump three tiles high? I've actually put some code inside that would give anyone the same height regardless of frame speed. If you can't jump that high I've failed miserably

It's supposed to work simply like this:

[Pishtaco]

Sounds like you cannot jump three tiles high?

It looks like if I hold down jump, my head ends up exactly three blocks high.

[Endurion]

Crapedicrap, I obviously botched it. I didn't experience the bug with 3 different computers.

Please, try the 1.1 version here: http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/The Journey 1.1.zip

[Pishtaco]

Crapedicrap, I obviously botched it. I didn't experience the bug with 3 different computers.

Please, try the 1.1 version here: http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/The Journey 1.1.zip

Now I can jump up to the ledges. The jump is a bit weird; it starts out the same as before, then when I reach the old height there's a jerk and he rises one block higher.

I'm afraid I'm not getting much further through the game. In the room after those ledges, there's a door at the bottom that I can pass through without opening it; then I find something that looks like a mirror, hovering over some platforms, that doesn't do anything; then I go down, into a room with lots of stairs and ninjas, to find some weird big red thing at the bottom right. It's difficult to jump to, possibly because of the stickiness of the wall-sliding, but I made it up there once and then couldn't get it to do anything. No rotating yet, as far as I can see.

[Endurion]

What heck of a machine do you have? Blazingly fast or slow?

The fix was put together rather ugly, so basically when a jump ends I check if there are still pixels missing to the full height. And then I just move the final part. On my machines it was almost always no, 1 or maximum 2 pixels missing (that's why I never noticed before).

The mirror thingy is a save point, press down to use it. The big red thing is a door, press down to enter it.

In hindsight I've missed a few explanations for the game. Call it the learning process

Anyhow, thank you for confirming that the fix kinda works!