WIP: Platformer (iOS)

Hi

I’m working on a platformer for iOS, which will hopefully be released by the end of 2013.

It’s made in Unity and 2D Toolkit.

Here’s a video of the prototype, using placeholder graphics (select the HD setting for best quality):

http://www.diorgo.com/

Kinda cute. For me, any platform game wins or loses purely based on the control system. If the jumping is too long and slow or walking is too slow it loses my interest. It looks to me like your jumping is a bit on the slow side. Also maybe the running may be a bit slow? If it’s also the kind of jump algorithm where you press jump and the player moves a fixed height and distance then that can at times get annoying, it’s nicer if you can implement a variable jump distance based on how long the key is pressed? It’s interesting to see it running with no art in it, though… to get a feel for gameplay. What will your graphics theme be like? Otherwise seems pretty cool.

I agree with @imaginaryhuman, if you make your game more “faster”, surely it could become more addicting. Also you should create your game’s identity, something that makes your game more differentiable. Anyway nice job, I am always looking for new platform games here :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for the feedback :slight_smile:

The game will have a speed setting to allow the player to change the game’s speed.
Some elements will not be scaled by the speed (e.g. some enemy reactions).

Still need to decide on the graphics theme.
Currently, mainly focusing on the gameplay.

cool stuff, have to agree with the boys above that speed and jumping for platformers are the keyfactors for me. I used to play an old game called blackthorne for the SNEs i belive, incredibly slow movement but it worked becasue of how the game was layed out.

in my current project we’re actually making graphics and movement at the same time since we’re tuning the animations to follow the moevemtn at all times. its underwater so theres some “wiggling” going on with the charatcer:P

this looks solid tho, interested to see ur graphics when u decide!

Here’s another video of the platformer I’m working on. It shows the player attacking enemies.