[Platformer] Trial of the Imps

[sodacat]

An interesting game. Personally I'm neither a fan of the style (never cared for randomized enemy patterns) nor the implementation (it would be nice if the transformation was a game mechanic. Making it a punishment for failure is silly considering who the intended audience is). That said, for the kind of game you intended to make, it is pretty good.

[MissCapricorn]

Originally Posted by sodacat

An interesting game. Personally I'm neither a fan of the style (never cared for randomized enemy patterns) nor the implementation (it would be nice if the transformation was a game mechanic. Making it a punishment for failure is silly considering who the intended audience is). That said, for the kind of game you intended to make, it is pretty good.

I'm my own audience.
And I know I don't like intended transformations.
I'm a fan of forced, evil, dominating transformations, so this is the best way I could go about it.
Also animating each transformation would take me decades.

Originally Posted by PyroWildcat

Very nice; I especially love the ending.

*SPOILER*
*snip*
*/SPOILER*

Hope you don't take any offense, just getting that opinion out there on the off chance it could be remedied.

EDIT: Oh, and maybe a way to use the level select to go into a level with fewer lives? It's a bit a pain to have to get myself beaten down numerous times on the same level to see the game over screen spiels.

I know it looks off. The sad bit is that was my second attempt as well. I'll probably give it another shot at some point.

As for that edit; I'm not really sure how I'd present the option...

[jolem]

I can't seem to play it, my security is saying that it has a virus on it whenever I tried to do it.

[MissCapricorn]

Originally Posted by jolem

I can't seem to play it, my security is saying that it has a virus on it whenever I tried to do it.

Norton?
I'd assume so since most others actually give you an option to run it anyways.

I don't know what to tell you beyond disabling the anti-virus.
Norton counts any exe that it does not recognize as a virus. The fact it needs to create a file in order to save your game might be part of it as well.

But, yeah, you disable your antivirus or you don't play. Not much I can do about that.

PS: If given the option, reporting it as safe would be awesome.

[jolem]

Actually I have Sophos, but I suppose it's my only option for now to actually play this. But it does keep pointing out the virus.

[PyroWildcat]

Very nice; I especially love the ending.

*SPOILER*
Just in case you decide to come back to this game at some point, I just thought I'd get out there that the disembodied breast form in the Imperium's fourth level looks a bit off. If I were you, I'd make the nipple bigger and make the sides of the breast curve back in just a bit above the point where they contact the ground; right now it looks a bit more like a barely cohesive pile of fleshy goo than a breast.
*/SPOILER*

Hope you don't take any offense, just getting that opinion out there on the off chance it could be remedied.

EDIT: Oh, and maybe a way to use the level select to go into a level with fewer lives? It's a bit a pain to have to get myself beaten down numerous times on the same level to see the game over screen spiels.

[darkkol]

Finally played the game and I will have to say good job and great ending. Was very fun to play. I did run into a series of bugs though. The platforms in the last area tend to cause you stick to them if you jump into them from underneath. Not sure why but can be annoying.

[MissCapricorn]

Originally Posted by darkkol

Finally played the game and I will have to say good job and great ending. Was very fun to play. I did run into a series of bugs though. The platforms in the last area tend to cause you stick to them if you jump into them from underneath. Not sure why but can be annoying.

Eh, yeah, I'll take another look at that but I don't think that is fixable.
Part of the issue with having a new trap every 30 seconds is that it's hard to have them all work perfectly on the same engine.
You have no idea how many bugs I've already squashed that never got released. Honestly I am amazed at how few there are now, and that's saying something since there are a few still.

EDIT: Actually I think I found a bit of a work around for that. I just need to decide if being caught in the middle drops you or pushes you to the top.

And now I am tediously adding a better reward for finishing the game.

ANOTHER EDIT: Updated the game! This might be the final version if no new bugs come up and I can't manage a better Imperium 3 ending animation.

[SoylentOrange]

....I re-beat the last boss and didn't notice anything different. WHat'd I miss? ^^;

[MissCapricorn]

Originally Posted by SoylentOrange

....I re-beat the last boss and didn't notice anything different. WHat'd I miss? ^^;

Nope! I did.
I uploaded the wrong version. D'oh!

Real one will be up in a second.

EDIT: There we go. Wish I had caught that sooner, but at least it's late at night.

[HeadShotOmega]

Played through the entire game again, beat the boss, unlocked the special reward and not a single glitch or error encountered, so I'd say congrats.

[Shadow_Dragon]

I got to the ending captions... am I supposed to be able to go to the main level selection or something?