Golden Gorge

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Golden Gorge

by Knitted Squid

Cart #golden_gorge-2 | 2022-08-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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What is Golden Gorge?

Golden Gorge is a 2d pixel art platformer made in PICO-8 including: unique bosses, characters, mini-maps and enemies.

Controls:

Arrow Keys = Move
X/V = Pickaxe
Z/C = Jump

What's the Aim?

The aim is to get back to the ship harbour before it leaves meeting friends and foes along the way.

What can I do when I'm Done?

You can check out the Discord Server and YouTube Channel of course!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtGlb0MYQrOka241hsrGZJg

https://discord.gg/Rr7Zb4CAPN

is the game finished?

i think I got locked in a place with the forge and a swtiched off exit point.

The game isn't finished, no. I just made it so others could play and early version. How exactly did you get stuck?

Ooh, gorgeous. Or... Gorge-ous.

I understand that it isn't finished yet, so I'm really forward to seeing some more game feel/interaction feedback in the future. Took me a hot minute to realize that I was indeed mining rocks whenever I swung!

Knitted: looks like I am soft locked at Tala Town screen.
I land there right after start.
Cannot do anything with the 2 houses and cannot get out of screen :/

if you’re looking for some notes:

• good atmosphere

• nice use of custom menu items! I do it too for debug options

• I think you meant for dark blue in your character sprite to be transparent: palt(1,true) before spr(...)

• during dialogue, jumps still happen

• I exited the house but dialogue continued

(edited — fixed now!)

• bbs has a work in progress category (you can edit thread to move there then move back to cartridges when finished)

• your post markup is incorrect (everything is a heading instead of normal paragraphs)

hope this helps!

Pros

• nice cover art.
• music is good
• the exploration is good. I liked the metroidvania-like map and the little descriptions for each room.
• the boss fights are interesting
• I like the dialogs. They give the characters a bit of personality

Cons:

• it just seems really easy to die to mobs. The pick only has a small attack damage/range and all mobs take multiple hits to kill.
• dying doesn't have much consequence other than moving you back a few rooms, and where you get sent back seems arbitrary.
• digging ores is a little slow & tedious. I also didn't know they took multiple hits or what the + meant, so I thought they weren't diggable at first. Ores also spawn in weird places like in lava or the inside of houses.

Bugs:

• talking to an npc doesn't freeze you or mobs.
• The crustacean boss was still spinning when I died and immediately re-entered.

Recommendations:

• give npcs an alternate shorter dialog after you talk to them
• speed up digging ores and give a little more visual effect to show your digging.
• make buttons/switches easier to see
• give flying mobs 1 health
• make the PC bounce a little higher on crabs
• give the crustacean boss less health; enough to go like 3 rounds of hitting/jumping.
• make savepoint objects to respawn to.
• Bridge the bee boss's room so you don't immediately die when entering, then remove the bridges and make the boss appear when the PC reaches the center.