My first-ever game, Foxcatsquirrel, is out now for Pico-8!
🍦🍪🍔 Chomp tasty food in quick arcade action
💫💀🦆 Repel enemies with your shockwave
🎼🎵🎧 Hum irritatingly catchy music!
Can you finish all five levels and get on the high-score table?
Thanks to this forum's own grumpydev for the fantastic high-score table code that let me finally call this game complete!
December 2022 update: Now running at 60fps!
First off, welcome! :)
This is a lovely simple game. The graphics and animation are beautiful. I like the handling of the player character, once I'd figured out you could glide it all became much more fluid. It'd be great to see some different difficulty settings, I find games like this where you die with one hit really hard! Nice music too. :)
Thank you very much for your kind and positive feedback!
I definitely would like to add more difficulty settings/lives - one hit over five levels is a bit stingy!
Love it! Maybe a 'do you want to continue?'prompt might be a solution to keep the difficulty, but at the same time give everybody the opportunity to reach level 5
Hello. I think it's a great result for the first game. Discreet and simple, but cute graphics. Smooth movements. I love it! Of course, in the future, this game can be improved and gets better and better, but for the first job - it's great. Don't stop there, you're doing great. Andersen
Maybe you have other jobs? I am very interested to take a look at other games :)
Herzlichen Dank, Stefan! I really appreciate that you played my game and your kind words too. I did release a second, much smaller game jam game on https://jamesnewton.itch.io/
Thank you again for your kindness!
Hi @daddynewts.
Helluva introduction by posting this great game ! I was having difficulty seeing the treasures to grab on the 1st level as you already have some sprites on the screen as part of the background.
Here now is a version that flickers the treasures ever so slightly so you can always know what and where they are.
Additionally it seems that if you jump from HERE to HERE you get stuck at the top of the screen momentarily.
Nonetheless, gold star work all the way !
Hi baker, hi dw817! @baker, glad you liked it :)
@dw817 – I've never had anyone mod my work before, so I'm really surprised! Thank you so much! I hoped that the outline on foreground objects made them clear enough, but sounds like it's still hard to see. I thought of making the outline thicker, or adding a subtle glow (maybe a smaller version of the glow around the key). I'll keep tinkering!
Thanks for the bug report too – it's a problem with the jumping physics, so your upward momentum doubles when you land on a platform at just the right height. In the end I changed the level layout to get around that :D
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