Comments on: One Final Pre-Alpha

By: rolfkramer

rolfkramer — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:58:46 +0000

Great level! Being a big fan of the original game, I have one important comment though: in the gameplay of the original game, you could phase, fly and choose a direction at the same time. When you do this, the jetman flies in a straight line in the direction you chose. This possibility is helpful at tricky parts where you have to fly between spikes or when you want to phase a wall while flying. When you phase, fly and choose a direction at the same time in the new game, you always fly upwards as well. I found this to be annoying, because flying in a straight line can be a necessary part in levels with much spikes and death traps. You had much more control over the jetman in the original game because of this.

Other than this physics issue, I love the new design, the sound & especially the message box at the bottom of the screen. Well done! I’m curious about the final game. Good luck!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:16:41 +0000

After beating the level I (as an invisible Jet Man) fell into the spike pit, which killed me. The game restarted with the door closed and no gems to collect.

By: Delvin

Delvin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:22:25 +0000

55 seconds? Pfft, try 45 (no treasure of course)

For the record, I also prefer resetting gems (treasure isn’t so critical) because the current behavior reduces level design space for “there and back” -kind of rooms that would just become trivial with the player suiciding intentionally. Also not resetting doors can potentially lead into some impossible situations if a door closes behind the player and he dies.

By: vielhuber

vielhuber — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:38:37 +0000

Is it possible to record a demo in the future?
This would be awesome, everybody can show others
their levels and you can watch them play very good.
Can anybody finish the level under 55 Seconds like me?

By: Saga Musix

Saga Musix — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:39:07 +0000

I think there’s still an issue with the music system… Especially when switchin to a different task (and thus pausing the game), it sometimes happens that in following death sequences, the music will not be muted anymore (so the death jingle and the music are playing at the same time). One time I even managed to “disable” the music completely this way!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:02:29 +0000

Yeah I don’t know if I can fix the alt issue, hopefully there’s at least a way to detect it so I can pause the game.

By: Saga Musix

Saga Musix — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:37 +0000

Robert: I guess the ALT key thing is rather a browser issue, as it is an accelerator key for accessing menus (you can see this when pressing ALT, then down, as the window menu will pop up). I would guess that nothing can be done about this while flash is running in a browser window, as the browser simply steals the focus (or rather, Windows / your window manager does).

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:14:50 +0000

Bugs:

* The ASDW controls cannot be used to teleport or press the blue button.
* After completing the level Jetman can fly around still (while invisible). If jetman dies in this short period then the level is stuck with no gems and no way to finish.
* It is possible to use the jetpack and phaser while dead.

By: amorphous

amorphous — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:12:33 +0000

>And amorphous, I think those ideas are pretty good, though I’m not sure why you would have to drop your fuel if there’s a reserved jump key.
I guess I didn’t make myself clear, I meant that the drop key would replace the special jump key.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:47:35 +0000

Okay here’s what it looks like ALT is doing:

ALT + LEFT/RIGHT makes you run left or right forever and there’s nothing you can do to stop it (supposedly)
ALT + SPACE makes you continuously phase, but you can’t stop phasing (supposedly)
ALT + SHIFT (when you have fuel) makes you fly nonstop (supposedly)

The only way to stop these things, it seems, is to press ALT AGAIN and THEN to press whatever button you pressed with ALT to make it happen. It looks like a bug, because the game shouldn’t have something that you can press and it automatically does things for the player, and because it really does more harm than good, since it’s so annoying to stop, and because ALT was both the original jump/fly key and is right next to the spacebar, so it could end up being pressed a lot.

And amorphous, I think those ideas are pretty good, though I’m not sure why you would have to drop your fuel if there’s a reserved jump key. But those would be for jetpack 2 like you said and that’s a long way off. I do agree that getting something like that to work would be really cool, though.