Hello again!
At last I've found some time to write short description of my game.
The idea:Since the first time I saw the contest categories I've liked the idea of "One Button Game". Games like this usually have very simple environment. But I love the platform games, so I started to think how player can lead the character in platform game using just one button.
After about an hour I've got an idea
. I decided to create simple prototype in Adobe Flash. I draw the quick sketch, and wrote a simple script to test the movement. You can see it
here (use UP arrow to jump).
After I saw the results I knew there is no way back - I have to do this game for the contest
.
The game:Wobble Bob is the platform game addressed to players in wide range of age. The rules are simple: The Player must lead the Bob to the end of the level (the place marked by sign). The only one action available for player is jumping. But Bob is wobbling all the time, so player can choose the direction of the jump. Regardless of this simply user input player can still interact with the environment in various ways using buttons and other mechanisms.
The game contains seven maps with different level of difficulty. I think the maps aren't very hard, but they becomes more difficult if you try to collect all of the tokens.
There are a few special items in the game:
Green bottle - lets Bob to make a double jump,
Red bottle - speeds up wobbling for a short period of time
Pink bottle - restores Bob's health.
A little technical notice:In the game I would like to create atmosphere of softness, lightness and pleasantness. To do this I had to create very smooth animations. I decided to make all required animations "programically" - in the code. I also modified the renderer to make it "asynchronous" (with not fixed framerate). It makes animations very smooth if you have fast computer.
That's all for now.
I'm very curious if anyone will complete this game with all of the tokens collected
.
Let me know if anyone of you'll do it!
Luk
