This is a small game about a small dragon kid that jumps around collecting gold and video game treasures.
This was my first PICO-8 project (and "finished", published game).
How to play:
You control a small dragon kid. You can jump on slimes, and bounce off slime balloons. You can jump up — or off — walls.
If a slime knocks you out, or if you land on spikes, you will lose 5 gold. Gold is worth 1, and video game treasures/large gold bricks are worth 10. Try to collect as much gold and treasure as you can!
Special thanks:
Though "complete", it isn't very long, and ends abruptly.
My intention was to just mess around with PICO-8, but after watching Krystman (Lazy Devs) talk about the importance of finishing your first game (in this video), I felt compelled to get it in a finished state and put it out, before moving on to start something new.
I hope you enjoy the game, and pardon the bugs, code, art, and lack of background music! x)
Super cute and engaging! Controls are fluid, and jumping off the walls has a great flow: minimalist but satisfying.
I have to admit, there's one screen that gives me issues and I'm not sure what I'm missing. I've made it through twice by sheer luck. I feel like I'm meant to do a quick wall jump, or maybe glide gracefully over the spikes by some particular fall timing, but invariably I just hit the lower edge of the next wall and slam down into the spikes 99% of the time. Any hints? :)
(the scoring reflects my pain too: I was at 400 timer when I got here, with almost all my gold intact...)
@mothgram Thank you for your kind words! I'm really glad you're enjoying the game!
lol I can absolutely give a hint! For that part, you just want to, and hopefully wording this out makes sense, but you want to:
I also have a little .gif hidden below showing how I do it. x)
And sorry about your gold. x)
Thanks greatly for the hint! Seems like I should have played around with the wall mechanics some more.
I'll play through the game again today and see how I fare—maybe this time I'll hold onto my gold...
Great game, the movement feels really nice and I like the varied environments ;)
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