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Jetpack June and the Tower of Power by geeitsomelaldy

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made by geeitsomelaldy for LD 39 (COMPO)

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It is the far future...

Ten years ago, Maximus Maximillian, the worlds richest man, and the worlds only Maxi-millionaire, went into seclusion within MaxCorp headquarters

The Year is now 2001, and life is stirring within MaxCorp Tower...

The tower lights up, draining all the power from the city. Only Jetpack June can ascend the tower and stop what ever nefarious scheme is going on inside... The Tower of Power!

Source on Bitbucket (git)

Developer Notes

So this is probably my most ambitious Ludum Dare game to date, the key component of managing your jetpack energy came right at the start, but making it a difficult boshy-like game came after. That may not have been the best idea as I was making level content for it right up until an hour before I submitted it, and that last hour was taken up by making the intro music.

I usually spend the last half a day making music for LD games, so this was a fumble on my part.

As such I recommend you listen to your own music while playing. I recommend anything by AC/DC, any power-metal, RCHP's 'Zephyr Song', Rocketman, Let's Go fly a kite...

There does appear to be a bug on the WebGL version where the jetpack exhaust doesn't stop when you enter a 2-tile high corridor. The ability itself stops (so you're not wasting any fuel) but the graphic doesn't. This only happens on the WebGL version and I only noticed it after publishing and didn't have time to fix it. it doesn't appear to happen on the Windows version, so if it gets annoying try the download link.

Development Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX82jPFES0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDZL0RsR4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP0XdVkCzW4

HTML5 (web) https://geeitsomelaldy.itch.io/jetpack-june-and-the-tower-of-power
Windows https://geeitsomelaldy.itch.io/jetpack-june-and-the-tower-of-power
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/jetpack-june-and-the-tower-of-power

Ratings

Overall 172th 3.581⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Fun 271th 3.279⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 482th 2.744⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Theme 302th 3.558⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 190th 3.628⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Audio 321th 2.825⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Humor 84th 3.368⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Mood 289th 3.051⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Given 64🗳️ 21🗨️

Feedback

Thorneto
31. Jul 2017 · 18:39 UTC
Controls were a bit too slidey but the game was funny and the intro was really well done. I appreciated the checkpoints.
mutuware
31. Jul 2017 · 18:41 UTC
Liked the intro tunes! But no game music?
Taffaz
31. Jul 2017 · 18:41 UTC
Nice game and difficult in a good way.
Hephyrius
31. Jul 2017 · 18:43 UTC
This game is brutal, Died. SO.MANY.Times! overall it is pretty fun, tho I did end up rage quitting after dying so many times :l
🎤 geeitsomelaldy
31. Jul 2017 · 18:44 UTC
@Mutuware There wasn't enough time to make music that wasn't just a 30s loop. In a game like this I'd rather have no music than an irritatingly short loop.
TheLukker
31. Jul 2017 · 18:49 UTC
Great game.
Demandooda
31. Jul 2017 · 19:11 UTC
Cool artwork, nice story, challenging levels and awesome implementation of mechanics. This might be my opinion, but I thought that the levels were a bit too hard, so it kind of felt annoying to play after a couple of minutes. But overall, this is a terrific game!
Ace17
31. Jul 2017 · 20:48 UTC
Excellent! (except for the jump sound, which gets annoying very quickly)
The levels are quite good (I liked the non-linearish way you connected the rooms), and the graphics are beautiful. As soon as I finish writing this comment, I'm going to resume playing this game, which is as hard as it's addictive!
Bill Zeng
01. Aug 2017 · 21:08 UTC
Funny. Reminds me of I want to be the guy
gonutz
01. Aug 2017 · 21:08 UTC
Really cool game! Very nice, big world, cool graphics, very cool music and sounds (I hear sfxr sound effects).

I love the animations, the title screen is awesome and the intro - man that is really impressive for 48 hours! And the effect that the guy shrinks into the backgrond :-)

Very solid game, only thing I don't know is how to open those doors, do I need to find anything first?
Angela He
01. Aug 2017 · 23:46 UTC
Nice! It was a lot more complex than I expected. The challenges are really well-designed and crafted. It's definitely for someone who loves strategy games, because you could spent quite some time trying to figure out all the puzzles :P Good job.
James Dunlap
02. Aug 2017 · 00:06 UTC
Cool game. I found the jump controls themselves to be a bit annoying.They were obviously coded that pushing space while in the air would activate the jetpack, but in the two tile high corridors, a jump happens so quickly that I often ended up falling down through the hole and getting killed by the sliding spike thing. Died over and over. Also was having trouble getting the doors to open. I got the key that I could get to (the green one?), but it did not open the green door when I went to it.

Great concept, though, and I loved the graphics. Too bad that you did not have enough time for more music.

FYI, I only saw the jetpack bug once while playing the web version.
Jupiter_Hadley
02. Aug 2017 · 11:07 UTC
Challenging game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AUyAsiiWQQ
Badly Drawn Rod
02. Aug 2017 · 20:06 UTC
I suck so badly at playing this game, but it's reminiscent of Super Meat Boy in terms of gameplay and Commander Keen in terms of looks. The levels seem to be very well thought out, and I always felt that when I died it was my fault. All it needs is a jolly 16-bit tune and it'll be good to go.
nikrt
02. Aug 2017 · 20:27 UTC
The graphics and audio seem really nice. What makes it more interesting is the level of challenge this game provides. The animations make it more visually appealing. Really nice work within 48 hrs👍
jusw85
02. Aug 2017 · 21:16 UTC
I liked it, controls were tight, but it was really hard. I got to the food lab, and was working on the moving platform to get the green key, then I tabbed out and accidentally closed the game :( I restarted then found out I had to start from the beginning then rage quit. I really wanted to finish the game and see the ending, and that just shows how good this game was.
Meta-link
02. Aug 2017 · 21:24 UTC
Great game ! Hard but I liked it, and the style is really cool too :D

Good job !
Knarfux
02. Aug 2017 · 21:33 UTC
Not really my kind of game, but the level design and difficulty is what we can expect for it.
Xerouss
02. Aug 2017 · 22:11 UTC
Great game, had fun playing it. Like the difficulty of the game. I did manage to find a bug inside the tower though where you can go through the wall.
![Bug.gif](///raw/042/9/z/8743.gif)
Agecaf
02. Aug 2017 · 22:24 UTC
Those smashing blocks are so fast you can clip through walls!

![clipping through walls.png](///raw/51a/9/z/8746.png)

The only complaint I have is the corridors that are just as tall as your character, since you often have to jetpack over spikes, and for that you have to jump, but the ceiling is as tall as the character...

Having said that, I found the respawns fast and the checkpoint frequent so that the game feels challenging-ly hard, but neither punishing nor unfair.
🎤 geeitsomelaldy
03. Aug 2017 · 07:32 UTC
@Xerouss @agecaf Glad someone found that. I left it in on purpose. There's one place later where you can do it too for a bit of a skip. Since you can never go up with it (only horizontal and down, if you jump) I felt it was a safe enough bug to keep in :)
eptwalabha
03. Aug 2017 · 19:30 UTC
Even if I give up (for now... damn spikes!), I have to admit that this one is my favorite so far.
Very nice game.
Prabhjot
03. Aug 2017 · 21:57 UTC
well done, this is a really fun game. wanted to smash my head against my desk after playing it after all my deaths.
Dragojt
03. Aug 2017 · 22:01 UTC
Nice platformer introducing the jetpack. In my opinion the character style is a bit different from the level, but everything else is so good. There's a level that I can't go through cuz I don't see the exit.
Good entry!
SVR_Audio
03. Aug 2017 · 22:13 UTC
Very good game, the art was what I liked the most, it is really well made, the sprites, the sprites movimentation, the background, the tiles, everything looks, so good, the sounds are not great, but the good gameplay and cool story makes this game really good, its impressive see a game like this in a compo, great job !
JSMCAG
03. Aug 2017 · 22:53 UTC
Really well done game, but incredibly frustrating! Sometimes unfairly so, requiring the player to make a series of frame-perfect jumps without failing otherwise they have to restart the whole room again (the room with the blue card being my biggest gripe with this).

No music and annoying sound effects are a bummer, but don't detract much from the experience.

Still, very well made! I would just make the character walk less stiffly...
zenmumbler
04. Aug 2017 · 11:45 UTC
It got a bit too "I wanna be the guy" for me with all the spikes and traps and reloads and all, but this is a very impressive entry. Good work.
harusame
06. Aug 2017 · 17:14 UTC
Good entry, very challenging for me ^^
So many "hard" traps ^^

Graphics are good, sound too except the jump sound.
Fun to play, good compo entry :)
simonhutchinson
06. Aug 2017 · 18:07 UTC
Go Jetpack June! This is a great compo entry!

The controls are a touch frustrating. I feel like you should just be able to hold down for the jetpack (not re-tap), but I think that challenge was what you were going for anyway. Really nice work!
pcmaster
06. Aug 2017 · 20:06 UTC
Very hardcore. Very.
HuvaaKoodia
06. Aug 2017 · 20:14 UTC
Whoosh!
g12345
09. Aug 2017 · 11:22 UTC
It's a bit too hard for me, but it's very competently done.
SuperEndeg
19. Aug 2017 · 12:41 UTC
Liked the graphics and humor, but it's way to hard for me too beat: only managed to get into the tower.