Moon Summit
1.0 Basic Description of Game/Movement
Two lovers, separated by the distance between the moon and lands, raise the very earth so that the player can go skywards. Traversing between 2D rising islands as well as controlling certain platforms to make way for their journey to the Moon! No matter how many times the player falls, gets pushed, or are zapped, they will continue ever forwards, to reunite the passionate love of these two separated soul slime mates!
2.0 Controls
3.0 List of Sources
Dead Revolver, (2024, Nov 20th) Pixel Prototype Player Sprites. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-prototype-player-sprit...
FeonY, (2023, Nov 27th) Animated Pixel - Art Backgrounds | Free https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/environments/animated-pixel-art-backgro...
War (2022, Oct 7th) Slime Enemy - Pixel Art https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/slime-enemy-pixel-art-228568
GWriterStudio (Jul 12 2022) 8 Bit Music - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/music/8bit-music-062022-225623
Pixel Skies Demo background Pack (Aug 18 2022) - Digital Moons - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/environments/pixel-skies-demo-backgroun...
Thaleah Pixel Font. (April 5th 2019) Tiny Worlds - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/fonts/free-pixel-font-thaleah-140059
4.0 Features
Player Movement is something that has been extensively explored before, but also mentioned is the player controlled platforms. This feature allows the player to control certain platforms in set range of motion. This allows neat gameplay, and can be shown in the gif below
5.0 Help With Scripting
There are a few scripts included to make this game operate and work throughout. I will acknowledge that ChatGPT was used to work out some kinks with code and to comment as well. Some of these issues with the scripts helped by AI was issues with the moving platforms, issues with wall jumping, issues with the timer and a few minor issues here or there.
I would also like to acknowledge that the Youtubers: Bendux and Dawnosaur were really helpful in teaching 2D movement concepts and a lot of the philosophy and coding of the movement was helped significantly by their videos, so I wished to reference them here as well:
Another person that influenced the use of movement and was a great base game to be inspired by, suggested by Ian, was the Itch.io game project OVERDRIVE V1.0 by Flynn Delta. This game greatly influenced how I designed levels, how the movement worked, as well as the choice to not include the swinging feature for the sake of flow. This game does include a swing, but arguably can halt momentum at some points. I was never able to achieve a swing close to theirs however, so still very impressive. I highly recommend anyone that would like to play something similar to my game to play theirs as well: Flynn Deltas: OVERDRIVE V1.0 https://flynn-delta.itch.io/overdrive
6.0 Thank you for Playing
Thank you to everyone who tested, gave feedback and played my game. It was truly fun to make and in the future I might try to make even more levels with the tools I have crafted here. Thank you!
Development log
- Assignment 3A -Checkpoint 6 - Testing23 days ago
- Assignment 3C - Documentation + User Guide28 days ago
- Assignment 3B - Game Testing35 days ago
- Assignment 3A -Checkpoint 5 - Polish & UI35 days ago
- Assignment 3A -Checkpoint 4 - Presentation & Graphics40 days ago
- Assignment 3A -Checkpoint 3 - Enemies and Interaction46 days ago
- Assignment 3A -Checkpoint 2 - Basic Level Blocking54 days ago
- Assignment 3A - Checkpoint 1 - Player Movement61 days ago
Comments
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The game treads a balance between fun/challenging and frustrating, and for the most part stays in the former. The audience definitely skews towards more skilled players looking for a platforming challenge, and leaves little for players like myself who need git-gud. Checkpoints helped with this, but maybe an even easier introductory level for peasants like me would have been appreciated.
The W key seemed to be dash instead of space like the in-game instructions suggested, and while I remembered this, i did find myself expecting to jump when pressing W and I think that was the cause of my inability to play much of even the easier stuff.
In any case, the music is funky and the graphics are generally good but a bit more polish on that front would have been nice. Still an enjoyable game for the right audience with heaps of content in terms of levels etc, so well done.
Movement for Platforms.
Pink ground platforms - J for left and L for right
Red platforms - I for Up and K for down
Might change depending on form, will polish alot more in the future
Player Movement -
A - Move Left
D - Move Right
W - Dash
Space - Jump (Can double jump as well)
Wall Sliding - Press Movement against wall
Wall Jump - Press Space while wallsliding, can also do another jump or dash after