Sunshift by guimonpa
SunShift is a twitchy action game, for more info... just play it!
There are 21 levels to beat, some manageable and some utterly nightmarish. Can you make it to the end?
Controls:
Arrow keys to move
You can skip a stage pressing S
--- Post Jam version info ---
The post jam version is virtually the same as the jam, we just fixed one bug for the stage skip that happened on certain occasions and added a version with an alternate control scheme.
In this last one you jump with Z instead of the up arrow. If we just allowed both buttons in the same build it would allow you to do some movement that is not possible if you only have one physical button for the jump, and we wanted to keep things simple and consistent.
Please pick the one you are more comfortable with :)
Sound effects made with chiptone.
Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DOQuVH4eeg)
Rhinoceros Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
There are 21 levels to beat, some manageable and some utterly nightmarish. Can you make it to the end?
Controls:
Arrow keys to move
You can skip a stage pressing S
--- Post Jam version info ---
The post jam version is virtually the same as the jam, we just fixed one bug for the stage skip that happened on certain occasions and added a version with an alternate control scheme.
In this last one you jump with Z instead of the up arrow. If we just allowed both buttons in the same build it would allow you to do some movement that is not possible if you only have one physical button for the jump, and we wanted to keep things simple and consistent.
Please pick the one you are more comfortable with :)
Sound effects made with chiptone.
Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DOQuVH4eeg)
Rhinoceros Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8z4yphrqksudj7/Sunshift%20Windows.zip?dl=0 |
| OS/X | https://www.dropbox.com/s/35r1wamx4h62tbz/Sunshift%20OS%20X.zip?dl=0 |
| Linux | https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdz8mrrk54g3lav/Sunshift%20Linux.zip?dl=0 |
| Post Jam Version | https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i15oanlkfsz0ii8/AAA8B5rDPDqcQ_jptVTwn1pZa?dl=0 |
| Post Jam Version (alternate control scheme: Z to jump) | https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l2llc5chltf51v7/AABCG2qyqGRzJ_Cdn2xpkep3a?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=35500 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 4.17 | 23 |
| Audio(Jam) | 4.00 | 44 |
| Fun(Jam) | 4.30 | 6 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.78 | 294 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.45 | 254 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.80 | 117 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.24 | 628 |
Not sure you should have considered yourself for rating in audio when the main sound is a Kevin MacLeod track?
Well done!
If I had one criticism it would be this: having up be jump really is never the right idea, in my opinion. It feels weird using the same fingers for movement and an action like jumping. I bet the game would be easier for most people if jumping was spacebar or z or something? Maybe it's configurable, in which case good! But I think it shouldn't be the default either.
But that's really pretty minor and I like the game a lot :)
@spiffl You are totally right, arrow keys felt comfortable for me on my laptop keyboard but I understand the frustration, I'll upload a post jam build with alternate jump buttons tomorrow!
I died 77 times.
I played 14 levels, and I skipped the last 6 (give or take). Most of them are astonishingly hard. I managed to keep my spirits up, but when at the key-shaped level I had to do one parcours twice, but the second time the other way around, you broke my spirit. The game's aesthetics are very well crafted, and the music is nice and hypnotizing. I commend you, great job!
Really good though.
http://i.imgur.com/CQKOgrx.png
Really great work on the puzzles and the pretty large number of levels for such a short Game Jam.
The music was spot on, too.
when i see screenshots - i think what a strange game? dont want to play this. But when i tryed... The game is perfect. The Game dynamic is brilliant. No words anymore. Great entry!
This entry was pretty fun to play around, some levels were easier, some harder, some left very little room for error (esp. the questionmark one) or required quite an endurance, but in the end all were passable and none felt particularly unfair. I just have no idea why sun is involved in particular. ^^'
(also, it's a bit of pity you didn't use some opportunity for untold story; like, the environment getting more and more annoyed at that arrows controller flapping around; there seemed some episode with DIE level followed by some possibly sadistic (?) face, but wasn't eventually brought to conclusion)
Really cool entry overall. ^^
Really polished and well-done, level design is fantastic!
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
Sure thing, it's already up on your site. Thanks for playing!