Bubbles by thaaks
What a Halloween party! But what's that? Not your bed, that's for sure!
You wake up in a maze full of monsters and your only weapon is some soap bubbles?!
Charm all the monsters with your beautiful bubbles to open the exit on each level and make it past the final exit to get back to freedom and your king size bed with tons of pillows!
Bubbles is a peaceful low resolution platformer with lots of functionality (Jumpthrough and moving platforms, double jumping, wall jumping, checkpoints, moving monsters, hazards) and currently contains 5 levels to play.
You can play the game in any HTML5 browser. Press F10 to play it full screen! Seems not to work with the LD embedding but on my site (see link below) it does work.
[EDIT]: I fixed the collision and checkpoint stuff in a post compo version which you can play here:
http://www.rightanglegames.com/bubbles-my-post-compo-entry-of-ld-32.html
But for rating please play the original version first - just to be fair!
You wake up in a maze full of monsters and your only weapon is some soap bubbles?!
Charm all the monsters with your beautiful bubbles to open the exit on each level and make it past the final exit to get back to freedom and your king size bed with tons of pillows!
Bubbles is a peaceful low resolution platformer with lots of functionality (Jumpthrough and moving platforms, double jumping, wall jumping, checkpoints, moving monsters, hazards) and currently contains 5 levels to play.
You can play the game in any HTML5 browser. Press F10 to play it full screen! Seems not to work with the LD embedding but on my site (see link below) it does work.
[EDIT]: I fixed the collision and checkpoint stuff in a post compo version which you can play here:
http://www.rightanglegames.com/bubbles-my-post-compo-entry-of-ld-32.html
But for rating please play the original version first - just to be fair!
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.50 | 264 |
| Audio | 3.06 | 361 |
| Fun | 3.52 | 214 |
| Graphics | 3.42 | 335 |
| Humor | 3.25 | 287 |
| Innovation | 2.76 | 780 |
| Mood | 3.00 | 484 |
| Theme | 3.82 | 187 |
@all: Thanks for your reviews ;-)
Also, i don't know why, but some commands made the browser window (latest Chrome) scroll all the way down removing the game from the screen.
It took a while to figure out I could double jump.. and the checkpoints seem a bit useless since I need to go back after every death and beat all the enemies before I can continue..
I really like your weapon choice! It is a good weapon in real life too, it melts even your worst enemies :)
Good variety of platforming elements. The charm with floating hearts is nice; reminds me of stunning Vorticons in Commander Keen. Bubble blowing is cute.
I would've liked to see the bubble floating used as a puzzle element, like needing to float bubbles to locations you can't access or having bubbles directed by wind flow. Still, the game's very complete as-is. Good work!
I also created a platformer/Metroidvania thing with similar jumping mechanics, hope you have time to give mine a try too!
Really enjoyed your entry, top marks!
Thanks again!
Spike jumps with low roofs are tricky - maybe have a one block solid nearby for practice? Gets tedious if you fail near the end, some checkpoints cause death immediately if you're moving before. Platform movement is weird if you jump from under.
One thing to note though is that the checkpoints don't really matter much since all the enemies get uncharmed when you die. Maybe keep track of the enemies you charmed in the checkpoints, or alternatively make the levels smaller and more compact so that they're not needed to begin with?