Shwift : The Maratron by Kerdelos
France, 3.am, the five students know their mid-terms are coming. Oh yeah. They know it well. Too well. But the truth is...they don't care. For three days and three night, they've been working proudly, with only one goal. Create. Create a game that would change for ever our conception of Life, the Universe and Everything. This game. This is....THIS IS JOHN CENA.
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Well, guess what guys. I'm tired.
Seriously, we are proud to introduce to you our game Shwift !
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Shwift is a cooperative or competitive puzzle game. For 2 to 4 players! The goal is to reach the finish line, we've been brainstorming quiet a lot on the theme and guess what? WE MADE A GAME ABOUT SQUARES CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES. HOW ORIGINAL. (Please don't stop reading yet).
Shwift is a three actions based game, you can move left and right, switch shape, and use the special ability of a shape. As I said before, there are 3 shapes, squares can dash, circles can jump, and triangles can invert gravity! But wait ! There is more. Each time you switch from a shape to another, so does other players ! And when you trigger your special ability, this ability is also triggered on other players after a small delay ! So ... be smart. Play with or against your mates, but reach the end!
We hope you'll like it.
Cheers.
KerDelos, Shadocalex, Tyrannas, Valerian and Winnilis.
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GAME MODES
Coop Mode : All players must reach the finish line, if one dies, everyone gets back to the beginning of the level.
Versus Mode : The first one to reach the finish line wins.
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CONTROLS
Left and Right to move.
Up to trigger shape skill.
Down to shift shape.
Circle skill : jumping.
Square Skill : dashing through some types of blocks
Triangle Skill : inverting gravity.
Player 1 : arrows
Player 2 : zqsd (sorry for qwerty keyboard owners, WASD keys are also enabled in the postjam version)
Player 3 : ijkl
Player 4 : tfgh
Some keyboard may not allow that many input at once and we plan to add gamepads support later.
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CREDITS
KerDelos : game design & programming
Schadocalex : level design & programming
Tyrannas : art & level design
Val茅rian : music & sounds
Winnilis : level editor & level design
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POST JAM VERSION CHANGELOG
-Gamepad support ( A to trigger action, X to shift shape )
-Solo Mode
-New levels
-Level Editor
-GamePlay Tweaks (shape shifting does not affect other players anymore)
-Bug fixes ( there still are some wild ones left out there for now =/ )
-Ingame UI ( the bottom bar indicates the upcoming actions )
-Neon trail
...
Well, guess what guys. I'm tired.
Seriously, we are proud to introduce to you our game Shwift !
---------------------------------------------
Shwift is a cooperative or competitive puzzle game. For 2 to 4 players! The goal is to reach the finish line, we've been brainstorming quiet a lot on the theme and guess what? WE MADE A GAME ABOUT SQUARES CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES. HOW ORIGINAL. (Please don't stop reading yet).
Shwift is a three actions based game, you can move left and right, switch shape, and use the special ability of a shape. As I said before, there are 3 shapes, squares can dash, circles can jump, and triangles can invert gravity! But wait ! There is more. Each time you switch from a shape to another, so does other players ! And when you trigger your special ability, this ability is also triggered on other players after a small delay ! So ... be smart. Play with or against your mates, but reach the end!
We hope you'll like it.
Cheers.
KerDelos, Shadocalex, Tyrannas, Valerian and Winnilis.
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GAME MODES
Coop Mode : All players must reach the finish line, if one dies, everyone gets back to the beginning of the level.
Versus Mode : The first one to reach the finish line wins.
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CONTROLS
Left and Right to move.
Up to trigger shape skill.
Down to shift shape.
Circle skill : jumping.
Square Skill : dashing through some types of blocks
Triangle Skill : inverting gravity.
Player 1 : arrows
Player 2 : zqsd (sorry for qwerty keyboard owners, WASD keys are also enabled in the postjam version)
Player 3 : ijkl
Player 4 : tfgh
Some keyboard may not allow that many input at once and we plan to add gamepads support later.
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CREDITS
KerDelos : game design & programming
Schadocalex : level design & programming
Tyrannas : art & level design
Val茅rian : music & sounds
Winnilis : level editor & level design
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POST JAM VERSION CHANGELOG
-Gamepad support ( A to trigger action, X to shift shape )
-Solo Mode
-New levels
-Level Editor
-GamePlay Tweaks (shape shifting does not affect other players anymore)
-Bug fixes ( there still are some wild ones left out there for now =/ )
-Ingame UI ( the bottom bar indicates the upcoming actions )
-Neon trail
| Windows | http://gamejolt.com/games/shwift-the-maratron/141981 |
| Windows ( PostJam version + level editor ) | http://gamejolt.com/games/shwift-the-maratron/141981 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=30088 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.50 | 304 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.33 | 301 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.36 | 338 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.61 | 386 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.48 | 526 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.58 | 190 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.38 | 325 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.70 | 261 |
Changing the shape's color when changing the shape feels (to me) like you're substituting characters instead of shape shifting, I think it would be good to show the shape morph from one type to the next.
I really like the name Shwift in general, but I don't see how it connects to the game itself.
Great job (now go study)!
Midterms exams are now over and we spent few hours to improve Shwift!
We've listened to you and implement gamepads. Solo mode is also there but we recommend you playing Versus mode with 2 players! New levels are made for it.
You can also create your own level with the level editor: Microsoft Excel (yes, you read it). Just read the README in the folder.
Enjoy playing!
Anyway all the best :D
Go vote mine ! :)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=90478