Save the Pixels [Video Demo]

[beshr]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to demo my first LÖVE game, I've been working on this for the past couple of weeks and I would appreciate any feedback

Updated video [July 7th]


Edit:
Downloadable .love file: http://d.pr/f/oO6m [Updated July 5th 2012]

[Robin]

Let me fix that for you:


Anyway, welcome! Your game looks nice. Why don't you upload a .love to the forums?

[beshr]

Well, thank you Robin

I edited the first post to include the .love file.

[Robin]

It would be nice if you listed the controls, because they're not obvious at all.

It appears I skipped the introduction too fast.

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Waa, it's pretty intense! I'm not really sure what to do with Q and U, how they work, and in the introduction for the third(?) level, you say zooming is with Z and X, while it's actually Z and C.

[beshr]

Thanks Robin,

I actually didn't list them because I wanted you guys to discover them gradually in the game. I wanted to see if it makes sense or if players are going to be able to get it from the help text i wrote.

Anyway, here's the full list:

Help text:
- Space: Continue

Head:
- I: up
- J: left
- K: down
- L: right
- U: freeze in place

Tail:

- W: up
- A: left
- S: down
- D: right
- Q: freeze in place

Camera:
- Z: Zoom in
- C: Zoom out

[beshr]

Waa, it's pretty intense! I'm not really sure what to do with Q and U, how they work, and in the introduction for the third(?) level, you say zooming is with Z and X, while it's actually Z and C.

Thanks

Well, U just holds the head in it's place, it basically just stops it from moving while it's pressed down. Q does the same for the tail. I'm planning on having some levels where you have to freeze the head (or the tail) and move with the other side to save some green pixels that are jammed in positions that are hard to reach.

And you're totally right about the zooming keys, will fix that now and reupload.

One note: I only made 6 levels and I was too lazy to show some "Game Over" message, so for now it's going to throw an error "level7.lua not found" or something it's going to reset to level 1.

Thanks again for the feedback

[beshr]

Would really love any feedback you guys have on the game.

You can download the .love file from the first post.

Thanks

[Zeliarden]

bug in löve 0.8.0 in windows 7? stops working on this line

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gameMusic = love.audio.newSource("sfx/nostalg2.mod","static")

I tried Boolsheet´s (beta?) build from this thread and that made it work viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9769

You insta die when you hit the walls sometimes
Gamepad support?

[bartbes]

bug in löve 0.8.0 in windows 7? stops working on this line

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gameMusic = love.audio.newSource("sfx/nostalg2.mod","static")

There's been a few fixes since 0.8.0, and if it works with Boolsheet's build, it works with the current (repo) version.

[beshr]

bug in löve 0.8.0 in windows 7? stops working on this line

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gameMusic = love.audio.newSource("sfx/nostalg2.mod","static")

I tried Boolsheet´s (beta?) build from this thread and that made it work viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9769

Thank you for this. I'm actually doing development on a Mac so I didn't encounter this problem, but sure hope this release bug fix (in an official release) soon.

You insta die when you hit the walls sometimes

That's because if you keep hitting the wall. Maybe I should add some bounce effect for the pixel?

Gamepad support?

Sure, planning on that. Just trying to figure out a way to get that damn XBox 360 controller working on my Mac. I might just get a new one and get it over with.


Thanks for the feedback