Candle Switch
Built for Jam Game #36, my first ever Game Jam and my first game! With a Jam theme of "Another World" and the requirement that you must include a Candle as a prominent item. Made in 4 days Jan 29th - Feb 1st, with the limited time, I know there are bugs, so feel free to let me know of them in the comments and I might revisit this sometime in the future! I decided to make a 2d Platformer where you switch back and forth with Another World using the power of magic Candles!
Couldn't have done this without some assets from online, a shout-out to the creators below, as well as a shout-out to my friend Weebo04 who did most of the Main Menu!
Character Art: MuchoPixels
Level Assets: MuchoPixels
Music: Ovani
Player Sounds: DillonBecker
Parallax Forest Background: edermunizz
Pixel Text Font: Jayvee Enaguas and Jeti
Comments
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Fun game! I like the world-switching mechanic!
One (subjective) tiny nitpick I have that I think could add some extra polish to the game: There were a couple of moving platforms that would start their cycle in a position where you have to wait a couple of seconds for the platform to come back before jumping on it. I think you could have their cycle start in a position that gives the player time a little more time to jump on it the first cycle or maybe have the moving platforms preserve their position even if that world isn't currently loaded could address this.
All in all, a very solid idea and implementation, especially having been your first game.
Thanks for the feedback, I received the same feedback from a friend about the moving platform positions persisting, definitely a good idea, was a little out of scope for me this time, but with what I've learned will be no problem next time!
This was fun!
I liked how the player is limited by the amount of times they can switch as opposed to just switching whenever.
Great use of the theme! Can't believe this is your first game! Great work.
Thanks!
What are the controls ?
They are on the main menu and pause menu, pause is escape, left and right is a and d, space is jump, shift worlds is shift, and reset is r
Cool ... wow this is a nice game