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escortquest

by bearpit

Cart #escortquest-1 | 2024-01-14 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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It's my first game, thanks for playing :)

Controls

• Left/Right arrow keys: Movement
• Up arrow key: Jump
• X: Use item
• Z: Cycle items
• P: Pause menu

Tips

• Don't forget to dash!
• You can pick up items to reposition them
• The cannon can be flipped around by prodding it
• You can restart the current level by running into a trap or from the pause menu
• All levels can be unlocked from the pause menu if you want to skip some

Instructions

Escort NPCs through often perilous levels, through snow and ice, outer space and beyond! And then try to do it faster.

About the Game

Made for the New Year, New Skills Game Jam by Bitter Sails Games. The current version is the gamejam version. If you liked the game, please comment and it will encourage me to continue working on it!

Credits

Thanks to Lazy Devs Academy for their awesome Pico-8 tutorials

Thanks for playing the game! :)

This is really cool! Is the prod move (and girder?) inspired by Worms? I like the little touches like the sprites stumbling when they fall. It's pretty tough! Only made it to the third or fourth level so far but definitely coming back to this one.

Thanks! Yeah, it’s hard not to be inspired by Worms and Lemmings when dealing with tiny sprites 😂 I added the prod as a way to make the NPCs hurry up, but it’s quite versatile (later on it can flip cannons too).

I think I got better at level design during the course of the gamejam, which unfortunately means the later ones are more interesting and the earlier ones are just about being fast with the inputs. By the way, if you want to see the later levels you can unlock them from the pause menu and visit them from main menu-> level select.