Volcano Dave by acehk
Trapped in the heart of an erupting volcano, your only hope is to propel yourself to safety using your oxygen tank as a jetpack. Move with W / D or the arrow keys. Hold down Spacebar to boost. This game is tough, good luck!
FIXES: Made some tweaks/fixes to address how unintentionally difficult the game was, plus a couple other bugs:
- less buggy grounded test resulting in the initial jump boost being more reliable
- interactable blocks darkerned to differentiate from non-interactable rock walls
- lights were getting stuck before. Now the red glow rises with the lava properly. Like above fix, this helps with obstacle visibility
- fixed typo in GUI message
- made reset 'R' instead of 'any key' to avoid accidental resets immediately upon winning or losing
FIXES: Made some tweaks/fixes to address how unintentionally difficult the game was, plus a couple other bugs:
- less buggy grounded test resulting in the initial jump boost being more reliable
- interactable blocks darkerned to differentiate from non-interactable rock walls
- lights were getting stuck before. Now the red glow rises with the lava properly. Like above fix, this helps with obstacle visibility
- fixed typo in GUI message
- made reset 'R' instead of 'any key' to avoid accidental resets immediately upon winning or losing
Ratings
| Coolness | 50% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.36 | 372 |
| Audio | 2.81 | 534 |
| Fun | 3.25 | 372 |
| Graphics | 3.79 | 198 |
| Humor | 2.78 | 343 |
| Innovation | 2.74 | 783 |
| Mood | 3.00 | 530 |
| Theme | 3.15 | 659 |
Feedback
Garris
28. Apr 2014 路 03:31 UTC
I see a lot of potential here. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I couldn't seem to get past that first switchback.
Danman9914
28. Apr 2014 路 03:32 UTC
Very difficult right off the bat! Nice graphics and animation
馃帳 acehk
28. Apr 2014 路 03:41 UTC
It is extremely difficult. I was low on time so I knew I wouldn't be able to make a long game with lots of levels, so I went for 1 really tough level. You know what they say: Difficulty over Quantity. Anyway, it is beatable. I managed to beat it after about 25 failed attempts.
TeamPurpleDolphins
29. Apr 2014 路 01:17 UTC
Good feel, though the controls are certainly tricky to master. Excellent animations and graphics. Enjoyed the 3D side-scroller format.
jayemjee
29. Apr 2014 路 01:28 UTC
...oy. This one's rough. The overall look is very well done, however, it's really, really hard. *Too* hard. Controls are a little stiff, and there's no indicator as to how long you can stay aloft.
sugarbyte
29. Apr 2014 路 01:34 UTC
First game to make me laugh out loud with joy! So much fun, nice job :)
VDOgamez
29. Apr 2014 路 01:38 UTC
This game feels really nice to play, even though I keep missing the jumps. The game's very hard. The graphics have a charm to them.
馃帳 acehk
29. Apr 2014 路 01:42 UTC
@jayemjee: agree on all the criticisms. I had very little time to actual test the game. I spent most of Saturday night trying to get swinging rope physics to work, then gave up and swapped to jetpack on Sunday.
Phobos001
29. Apr 2014 路 02:02 UTC
Very difficult, but so satisfying when you do beat it. I don't know why you made an idle animation though, because if you stop for even a nanosecond you DIE.
perfect victim
29. Apr 2014 路 19:52 UTC
HARD but verrrry addictive!
Stepperz
29. Apr 2014 路 19:58 UTC
I tried and failed about 30 times. It's impressive how addictive a difficult game can be!! I might just go and play it again :)
tacs
29. Apr 2014 路 20:02 UTC
Found it very hard but still fun to play :)
JavadocMD
30. Apr 2014 路 07:55 UTC
Haha, tough, but fun. Very nice graphics. Adding a glow effect to the lava might help to make it "feel" hot.
rylgh
30. Apr 2014 路 08:57 UTC
christ that's tough. better too tough than too easy, though
Gamepopper
30. Apr 2014 路 16:32 UTC
Well animated, good graphics. Fun simple platformer right here.
http404error
30. Apr 2014 路 18:40 UTC
Fourth try! I do feel like beating it was an accomplishment, though.
shatley123
01. May 2014 路 06:49 UTC
hilariously awesome
clearlyspam23
01. May 2014 路 13:55 UTC
"Found it very hard"
bentog
01. May 2014 路 23:47 UTC
After about a thousand tries, I completed it! Maybe you should make it gradually become more difficult and have a bigger level. I mean, you have to play for a long time to win as it is, but the time you win takes less than a minute of playing. The graphics were impressive for the particles and the fact that the character has animation. Would be a lot less frustrating if the character had no friction. Hey, we both made platformer games where you have to escape a volcano!
馃帳 acehk
02. May 2014 路 01:27 UTC
@bentog - Woo Volcanoes! I wish I had more time to make multiple levels or a longer level with a difficulty curve. As far as friction goes, I don't even know how, but there is 0 sliding in Unity, yet the web player, the ground feels a lot more slippery. No idea why tbh D:
馃帳 acehk
02. May 2014 路 01:28 UTC
in the web player*