Ninja Escape by Bezza

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made by Bezza for LD21 (-)
Game play instructions:

WASD to move/jump. holding space while moving towards a wall grabs onto it. pressing jump while grabbed onto a wall allows you to wall jump. Left click throws a shuriken and right click throws a smoke bomb.

Tips:
Pick up a thrown shuriken from the ground to be able to throw it again immediately. Use smoke bombs to obscure the guards vision.

Note:
I ran of time and couldn't add as much as I had planned and I'm aware there are a few minor bugs still in.

Ratings

Coolness 2% 246
Overall 2.18 432
Audio 1.30 338
Community 2.67 207
Fun 2.00 407
Graphics 1.70 452
Humor 1.14 441
Innovation 2.00 415
Theme 1.70 488

Feedback

Hempuli
22. Aug 2011 路 21:00 UTC
Ughh, please no installers. They're such a hassle to handle!
馃帳 Bezza
23. Aug 2011 路 10:41 UTC
My apologies, I have added a version that does not use an installer and should work fine if you have XNA 4.0 and .NET installed.
kavs
23. Aug 2011 路 15:56 UTC
The version I had used the installer, which I actually went through with but it made me /sadface. :( Happy to see you fixed that.

I tried to play this on my laptop and the ninja just glitched around the world, then fell out? Maybe the laptop isn't running well enough to play this game, but it was completely unplayable for me. :(

Except for the menus, at least!
gokuhd
24. Aug 2011 路 18:25 UTC
Hi!, it looks very nice but there are two points I think you should consider: try to put the download file outside megaupload (because of the waiting time), if you got a dropbox account would be nice to put it there, the second one is more important, I think, I downloaded it and played it but... is there any possibility to jump higher than the first big wall? I could not, not sure if I'm very bad playing or that is a bug, check it and I will try again :).
馃帳 Bezza
24. Aug 2011 路 19:36 UTC
@gokuhd Thanks for the advice, I'll look at uploading the files to dropbox. For the wall you're supposed to get over it by making use of wall jumping. Just hold the space bar and tap jump while moving in the walls direction.

@kavs I asked a friend of mine with a slow PC to check it out but it ran fine for him so I'm not sure what is causing the problem for you but it most likely boils down to bad programming on my part.
ExciteMike
29. Aug 2011 路 22:31 UTC
The first time I played, controls felt kind of stiff, but it was quite playable until about the third checkpoint at which point the ninja started glitching all over the place. After restarting it was fine for a complete second playthrough, though. It's odd having wall-jump be a different button than regular jumping, but it was easy enough to get used to.
Shigor
30. Aug 2011 路 20:34 UTC
Some parts are frustratingly difficult (jumping on the walls with plasma on every step, or guard who'll see you if you're not extremely careful) and thanks to sliding the controls weren't exactly good. But you've put a lot of checkpoint, which reduced the difficulty to manageable level and tried to spice the platformer a bit - so even for my ramblings I rate is as good.

And as gokuhd already said... please, next time no megaupload, especially for a tiny half meg file. (it would be probably best if you changed the download link somewhere else even now, a lot of people will be put off by forcing them to wait a minute, then wait a minute...
Jacic
01. Sep 2011 路 00:04 UTC
@kavs: I had the same problem.

If this gets fixed then I think this game has real potential.