Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022 + Post Jam Update)

Show off your games, demos and other (playable) creations.
Post Reply
User avatar
Gunroar:Cannon()
Party member
Posts: 1143
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:57 am

Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022 + Post Jam Update)

Post by Gunroar:Cannon() »

Get jiggy...piggy?

Image
M-m-m-my game for the 7 day game jam :cry:
Really ran out of time. But the stress was fun in its own ways :)

It's a platformer where you only need to jump. Get bored of a level or find one too hard? Then generate a new one. 1000+ possible levels!! Muhuhahoinkhahah.

Pig Jig
Last edited by Gunroar:Cannon() on Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.

-How to be saved and born again :huh:
User avatar
Gunroar:Cannon()
Party member
Posts: 1143
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:57 am

Re: Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022)

Post by Gunroar:Cannon() »

Piggy Jiggy Jiggy Piggy...*sobs*

It seems I have come across a test in organization...and...management ... and... and DANG IT.

Everything was going sooo well, but then I just had to forget to remove the debugging rectangle that springs draw, "you win" doesn't show up and there's an error somewhere towards the end. Well, at least I added an easter egg of sorts (unlocks! screenshakes! See it?).

Life.

Arghhh...!

Surprisingly enough art was quickest thing for me to do. But you know what wasn't quick Al "these little fixes". Yeah that drained some time.
Image
Level 9 is a lie!!

Let's see the evolution of the stuff!


Early game.

Image

Image

Can you jig?
Image

Characters...

Image

Image

Image

My favorite thing is the menu.

Well, it can be said I've learnt some things, including to code faster. Trick is just to keep on typing as muc as you can then try and run the game(only after typing and typing and OH TYPING) and then fix all the mistakes you made...AND REPEAT.
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.

-How to be saved and born again :huh:
User avatar
knorke
Party member
Posts: 274
Joined: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:06 pm
Contact:

Re: Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022)

Post by knorke »

I tried your game, here are random thoughts:
The download from itch.io was named lovegame.love (use real game name)
My first thought was "Oh, the music is bugged/skipping and repeating the same one second loop."
But now I opened menu2.mp3 and it really is like that. :crazy:

At gamestart I pressed every possible key and nothing happend. Then I used mouseclick and it worked.
I think it would be good if spacebar, return, ctrl and other "common" keys also worked. It saves that tiny bit of frustration right at start that can make people close a game very quickly.

Gameplay itself is decent. Reminds me of Flappy Bird / "Fly the copter" (google it, it is old famous flash game) where you also only have one button to go up and gravity pulls you down.
In those flying games you can push yourself upwards at any time, in PigJig you can only jump when on the ground.
I think that makes the gameplay a bit more simple, maybe too simple? A bit like the Firefox-No-Connection game with the dino but you only play that for 20 seconds while you wait for WLAN to reconnect.
I understand that the simplicity of "one button" is the thing about this game but maybe it would be cooler to have something extra. Like a double-jump ability. Or the longer you hold the key, the higher you jump.

The spitting mouthmonsters felt a bit pointless because I can not vary my speed anyway?

The red "ghost effect" on death is nice. Cool to see where you keep failing.
At one point in level 2 I was stuck in death-loop on a trampoline-thing. It spawned so many particles that the game started to lag.

From technical side it is of course impressive that a playable game can be made in such short time, with menu even. :)
User avatar
Gunroar:Cannon()
Party member
Posts: 1143
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:57 am

Re: Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022)

Post by Gunroar:Cannon() »

Thank you. Bugs under rugs, jigs within jugs I guess. :P
But overall it was a nice stressful experience. :) (Also did it completely on an Android for ... some reason).

It also has infinite levels (sigh) and if you keep clicking on a locked level something lame happens. :(

:crazy:
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.

-How to be saved and born again :huh:
User avatar
Gunroar:Cannon()
Party member
Posts: 1143
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:57 am

Re: Pig Jig (Love2d Jam 2022)

Post by Gunroar:Cannon() »

New
Just added a version that fixed a bunch of problems so the game could be more "complete".

Fixed slow/unstable frame rates
Got some complaints the game was too fast...Well i added an option to make it even FASTER!!
But for real, the framrate fix should fix super natural speed (unless...you use the setting...heheh)
FIXED THAT LEVEL 9!! DANG IT! (Level 9 is endless)
Fixed UI problems, like buttons not pressing
Fixed difficulty modes
Fixed bosses to spit a dangerous projectile once in a while
Hardcore mode boss fights are ... harder
Fish that spit are still slow to hit you. But that's how I made them to discourage careless jumping. Harumph!
Fixed spring drawing a white block behind it
There might still be some bugs, but at least now the nasty ones are gone...Hopefully.

Image

Piggy Jiggy Jiggy Piggy.
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.

-How to be saved and born again :huh:
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 0 guests