This game is incredible! I love it haha. I seriously havent had this much fun trying to beat times in a long while. I dont know if its a bug a lot of people are encountering or if its just me but if I improve my time more than a few times it wont let me improve it anymore, seems like its only when I get one thats decently high on the leaderboard. heres a screen.
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Delvin

Finland141 Posts

November 15 2010 13:36 GMT

#62

Times get randomly ignored, it's known and high priority issue for the next patch. Haven't seen it happen more than once or twice so far myself (of course it could happen more often but can't see it when not breaking a record) and replaying the level would give me the record correctly so it certainly doesn't shut your times off until game restart or anything like that.

Motoxpro

United States29 Posts

November 15 2010 14:18 GMT

#63

Excellent! My one suggestion would be a community scoreboard, maybe another option on the main menu. Just so you could scroll through the top times on each level and then maybe a total times page where you can see the top players total times. Not a big deal but it would certainly be useful for the competitive people. Again great job!

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

November 18 2010 23:07 GMT

#64

I'm done the game, trying to get all coins. How do you get the coins for 1-11? T.T

orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

November 18 2010 23:34 GMT

#65

Level Editor :D

WhoDoYouThink

113 Posts

December 12 2010 00:59 GMT

#66

Uh, I can't find the secret to 2-3 or beat level 4-1 to the secret. Any help?

Tesla12

Serbia71 Posts

December 12 2010 17:29 GMT

#67

i am playing it atm! Its awesome,fun relaxing, everyhitng!

WinterNightz

United States111 Posts

December 24 2010 06:39 GMT

#68

Wow, does "me and a mate" imply this was done entirely by two people? That is insane. The amount of creative level design that's gone into this is so wonderful, and as I just got to a Christmas world, I have to ask: was that in since the beginning?

Also, it'd be nice to have a little tutorial for the customization screen. I still have no idea what the seemingly blank choices are, with the colored lights spinning around them.

Overall, though, I just love the feel so much. Like someone said previously, it's got the same spirit as Sonic: zip through as fast as humanly possible, but if you can't do so carefully enough, you'll go flying into a wall of spikes! (or lasers).

Thanks for making this! I'm definitely recommending it to all my steam friends.

Kyrth

United States101 Posts

December 30 2010 10:00 GMT

#69

Man Sairon, this game is awesome. Glad I spotted this thread. It reminds me of the "pure fun" type of games back when mario was new and fresh.

Sairon

47 Posts

January 03 2011 13:45 GMT

#70

95% of the game is just 2 guys, we've had some help from a few mates, mainly with the music. The Christmas world was patched in a few days before Christmas. The customizations screen could probably use some clarification, the colored lights are trails for the ship.

Really glad you're liking it!

That's what we were aiming for Kyrth, we've tried to put a lot of focus on game play. The world map in particular is inspired by Super Mario Bros 3

darkemperor

Turkey725 Posts

January 03 2011 13:53 GMT

#71

it looks so nice, wish it was free

jcroisdale

United States1543 Posts

January 03 2011 14:00 GMT

#72

Was this done solely as a business venture or did it start out as a fun project or something. Basically are you doing this as a means to live.

Sairon

47 Posts

January 03 2011 16:13 GMT

#73

We're working on it full time, it started out as a completely different game with top down shooter mechanics. Turned out it was impossible to hit anything, but that's what it evolved from.

We'll see where we go from here, been really hard to get some attention for the game and we've sold poor sadly. We're living like hobos and beyond the occasional beer it's mostly work or SC2 so hardly burning through cash though :D

oob

Sweden630 Posts

January 03 2011 16:32 GMT

#74

This game is gold. If I had the money I would buy it ten times just because the awesomeness.

optical630

United Kingdom768 Posts

January 03 2011 17:26 GMT

#75

yeh i got this and its so so fun

its not even expensive so just buy it

keeblur

United States826 Posts

January 03 2011 19:58 GMT

#76

Pretty fun game so far. I always get to the leaderboards and am like, "wtf, how are people doing it so fast" and have to retry again to go for the quickest route, which for me gives it a lot of replay value.

Kyrth

United States101 Posts

January 03 2011 20:21 GMT

#77

Some parts of it are hilarious too, in a game design sort of way. I spent 20 minutes trying to bounce this ball just right to sneak under it and not be hit by a laser. Eventually I made it, and the secret wall I expected was indeed a secret wall! However, it led to an inescapable pit of spikes. Awesome secret.

Also great was the long dead-end death trap, with the troll face at the end. haha. Was gonna screenshot but couldn't get it to work.

And yeah, the replay value is surprisingly good. I thought I'd be fed up with the difficulty after I beat it and got a few coins, but it keeps pulling me back, not to mention the quest for better times.

I have a quick recommendation on the ghost implementation though, it seems like it should spawn when you do. As it is, it spawns almost immediately after the level starts so you can be behind it, or even ahead of it if you start fast enough. Sorry it hasn't sold well

This is one of the most fun games I've played in a while

keeblur

United States826 Posts

January 03 2011 20:30 GMT

#78

On January 04 2011 05:21 Kyrth wrote:
I have a quick recommendation on the ghost implementation though, it seems like it should spawn when you do. As it is, it spawns almost immediately after the level starts so you can be behind it, or even ahead of it if you start fast enough. Sorry it hasn't sold well

This is one of the most fun games I've played in a while

Agreed.

Sairon

47 Posts

January 03 2011 20:38 GMT

#79

We decided on having the ghost as it is now because the game simulates straight away when you enter a level / hit reset. Some players use this to get better times on some levels, for example where there's moving spikes, the way it is now the ghost is always in sync with the level so that you can test different timings. We'll keep at it until we run out of dough, and we have a few opportunities which we're exploring which hopefully will give us enough for another game

keeblur

United States826 Posts

January 03 2011 21:00 GMT

#80

Glad I got a gamepad to use for this also. Speaking of, is there a reason there was no XBLA or PSN release for this? Seems like it's pretty friendly to gamepad, and would get a lot of hits from people who use the console. In fact it seems like it would have been on consoles first then ported to PC, just by how it's built, similar to SMB.