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Penny the Pumpkin: Director's Cut

Fri, 03 May 2024 09:54:41 UTC

Penny the Pumpkin: Director's Cut

by kaimonkey

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Description

Penny the Pumpkin: Directors Cut takes you on a delightful platforming open-world metroidvania with light puzzles to solve. Guide Penny, our lovable pumpkin, as she collects 18 precious coins! Your progress is saved every time she grabs a coin or enters a new area.

Once you've collected all 18 coins, put your skills to the test by unlocking the thrilling speedrun mode! Note that saving is disabled in this mode, so it's all about your skill and reflexes. Can you beat the programmer's current record of 3:31.4? 🏆

Features

What's new in the Director's Cut?

More like what's stayed the same? I've gone over every graphic, every level, every line of code to bring you the definitive Penny the Pumpkin experience! But here's a summary of just some of the things that have been added since the original came out:

Six new coins, bringing to total to collect to 18
Four new areas
Three areas completely reworked from the ground up
The mostly unchanged four areas given a good deal of love to!
A new (secret) mechanic you'll have to discover to collect all the coins
More connections between areas, making the world more interconnected than ever
Improved performance allowing for even more impressive particle effects
Music with instrumentation changing in different areas
Improved rendering on Penny so her outline is always perfectly crisp
Rewritten soft-body physics to better handle edge cases and to control better
Improved jumping physics when bouncing on enemies
Manually controlled camera in many areas to give the players the exact experience I want
Improved visuals throughout, with more animations, more decorations, more details, and more love
Fixed various exploits (or, let's call them "tricks") which made speedrunning too predictable

Existing Features

Adorable physics based soft-body animations
Large interconnected open world
Seasonal skins when playing at Halloween
Speedrun mode after completing the game

Credits

Game by @kaimonkey
Music by @packbat
Logo design by Frida Nilsson

Shoutouts

Josiah Winslow, and everyone else who submitted speedrun times for the original Penny the Pumpkin
morganq_ for playtesting and helping with some gfx and sfx ideas
@ohhcurtains, Sugarvoid, @Thelxinoe5 and many many others for giving really useful playtesting feedback

Speedrun Leaderboard

#	Runner	Time
🥇	@Thelxinoe5	2:32.2 (video)
🥈	@kaimonkey	3:31.4
🥉	Frimkron	8:00.1

Map Rendering Performance Test

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:42:59 UTC

map_perf_tests

by kaimonkey

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A performance test for showing different ways of rendering the map to the screen

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Birb Bird Hills

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 22:00:32 UTC

Music by @packbat, Game by @kaimonkey

birbbird

by kaimonkey

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Description

Tiny Wings? Never heard of her! In this totally originally concept, land as many jumps as you can without crashing! Every time you land a jump, you get a point!

Controls

X/x If in the air go down, if on the ground go fast
Z/O If in the air go down, if on the ground go fast (again)
Down If in the air go down, if on the ground go fast (again, again)
Clicking the screen If in the air go down, if on the ground go fast (Listen, it's a 1-button game)

Features

Five different terrain types which come as you get higher and higher score
A trajectory helper to get you to learn the ropes - be careful, once your points go above 5, or your highscore gets to 8 you'll lose it!
Music by @packbat which has different instruments change volume when you break a combo!
No death screen: every time you lose a combo, you can just start your next attempt straight away. In just a few hills time you'll be back in those gently flower hills, but maybe you'll get some extra cheeky points before you get there

Highscore Table

#	Username	Score
🥇	@kaimonkey	17