rudranilbasu / ld42

Running out of power

SPACE TIME

Story

Space Time is a short platformer game created by an unknown programmer on a very ancient computer. Since the amount of space on the computer is too low to incorporate the entire game, the developer originally decided to decrease the viewing space of the player as time progresses. The developer wrote it on his game design document that the machine had too little space to render the entire screen for the entire gameplay duration. Don’t worry! you can still collect few gold coins to increase the viewing space of the player. And oh: According to another point mentioned under the “How I optimised this game” section: Looks like some of the grounds are also programmed to break after the player stands too long to make sure too many block elements are not stored in the computer’s memory at a given time. Can you still use these constrains to help the poor player reach the castle?

Controls

• WASD / Arrow Keys for movement
• X to shoot bullets
• Space to jump

Audio: “RetroFuture” by Incompetech.

ld42's Issues

Fix player going through the ground

Probable causes: High speed of the player object

"Press Enter to start" not "Any Key"

Yeah, any key is clearly not working

Infinite scrolling

Jump: Don't jump out of the Upper screen

In game instructions

Specially X to shoot

Shader: Do some stuff with the part outside the outline

Something other than keeping it dark (completely)

• Will be difficult to see the obstacles ahead, but not completely invisible

Enemies: Simple mario type enemies

Player animation

Breakable spikes: Break only if bullet has enough power

Bullet power will be determined by the amount of distance it traveled:

void Awake()
{
    m_timeStarted = Time.time;
}

void Update()
{
    // check for distance traveled:
    m_distance += (speed * Time.deltaTime );
}

Feedback: Add audio + visual feedback on jump and land

Controller support

Fix multi instance of Audio source in main menu

Reproduce by: Menu > Play > Come back to the menu screen

Resolution of spikes and others are not same

Spikes: Higher resolution compared to others

Better jump