Updated 2013-12-01 - added a playable demo
{ Mr. Link }Updated 2013-12-08 - Three levels! Sound! Animations!
After seeing BaukjeSpirit's game screenshots, I felt like playing around with games myself. I downloaded Stencyl, since it has native Linux support, and came up with something I'm pretty pleased with so far - originally intended to be a game with the "Fire Serpent" (
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It's meant to be a joke on the
An Ember in the Wind story I've been posting art from for a while. I don't know if I'll finish it - I just needed a diversion from the actual project itself. If I think I can make it into a polished game, maybe it'd help drum up some publicity for the book, so I'll have to see.
You can play as either Mara or John Bartlebee - the poor man who has grown tired of listening his hitchhiker tell Mara's story - and decided to come up with his own retelling. Mara is the "normal" character, who is subjected to John Bartlebee's assortment of cliche video game jokes. If you win as Mara, you can play as John Bartlebee, who is subjected to the hitchhiker's "revenge retelling." I don't think he'd have a whole new set of levels - he'd just have to go through the original set with one hitpoint.
Anyway, here's a video of the test run. All art was done in GIMP
Video 1!Apparently Stencyl uses Box2D, so time to have fun with physics! If you charge the enemies fast enough, you can push them off cliffs.