.p8rker
You are P8rker, a nerdy teenager who was bitten by a radioactive spider, giving you superpowers like nearly unlimited strength and the ability to shoot webs. The public is absolutely okay with you leaving toxic web waste all over the place. As long as you save people from buildings under attack! They need your help. Oh, and did we mention that your girlfriend (according to you, not her) is waiting to be rescued somewhere in this building?
All similarities to actual superheroes are purely coincidental.
How to play
Up: Jump up in the direction your facing
Down: Jump down
Left/right: Change the direction your are facing
Swing over people to rescue them.
Avoid the pumpkins of the Green Gnome.
Avoid Otto the Kraken
This is my 20th PICO-8 game. Thank you for playing!
Update 1
I added a few more heroes to the game. Collect bonus items (they appear every third round) to unlock all of them.
Update 2
- Added a new title menu for easily changing modes and heroes and toggling the collection.
- Added a survival mode. How long can you survive? Both modes have their own high scores.
Update 3: Hotfix
- Hopefully I fixed the issue where the game won't return to the title screen after losing all lives.
- Balloons now only appear every fourth pickup (people, items, balloons itself).
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Congrats on your 20th game, so good!
I love the pixelart face when you start a new wave lol
Great game!
Oh, I loved this! The whole game idea is fantastic, i've favorited. The only thing I miss is a highscores table :) I know, I know, I may sound like a monday morning quarterback, but it would be nice to unlock Ven8n (or I'm jumping to conclusions, because i'm at 16% yet). A simple pallet swap would do, but also can increase/decrease swingx
@leandrolopesp Thanks! I already have planned a few updates for the game.
Things that coming are alternative heroes and a better Ending. A highscore table would be a nice addition, I agree. Might as well add it to the list :)
@Paramania It's for a score bonus at the end of each round. Rescue all people before the time runs out to get the remaining seconds as a bonus.
That is what I figured but wasn't sure. Awesome work, really fun and addictive. Just beat it with a score of 666. Look forward to future updates!
I added a few more heroes to the game. Collect bonus items (they appear every third round) to unlock all of them.
This was a lot of fun. P8rker's reaction m8kes the experience.
Great game! What bonus items are we looking for to unlock the other heroes? I seem to be finding a lot of items like balloons, sprinkles, etc., but no new heroes.
@BPJerseyBoy You need ten different items for the first new hero. Press Z at the title screen to check your collection.
Excellent. I'm at 5. I'll keep plugging away. Thanks again for this great game. My friends and I are hooked!
Any chance there will be an unlimited mode at some point? You really struck gold with this game, it's very addictive. Although I worry if there is no end I'm going to get stuck in an eternal loop of going back and forth beating friends scores. Having the ability to use the buttons for Jump up/down would be great too. It's a bit fiddly on a control pad. Thanks and again, great work!
@Paramania An unlimited/survival mode would be easy to implement, as I had considered something like that before deciding to limit it to eight rounds. Alternate controls are a good suggestion, too. Thanks. Update should be coming this weekend!
@donswelt Hey there! I'm not going to demand new features like that Paranorman guy, I just wanted to thank you for making such a fun and addictive game! Keep up the amazing work!
...just going to leave this random number: 764 🧐
@NaeemTHM Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
And no worries. I like having feedback, so just throw your feature requests at me! As long as they don't suggest a totally different game, I'm cool with it. :)
Update 2:
- Added a new title menu for easily changing modes and heroes and toggling the collection.
- Added a survival mode. How long can you survive? Both modes have their own high scores.
So me and my friends have found some pretty big bugs.
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Sometimes a bug triggers where you can't die. I wasn't able to reproduce but he said "I got hit many times after my lives ran out, but it let me keep playing.... the game won't end unless you take your last hit near the bottom of the screen. If you take a hit with no lives high up, he always catches himself before he falls off the screen."
- There isn't a limit to the amount of balloons each level, this means it's easy to game the system and get a near infinite score.
IS there a way to reset the scores? And once these have been fixed we need a way to know we are on the fixed version on the title screen to prove high scores from the fixed version :)
We really are hooked.
Paramania, NaeemTHM and I have all been going back and forth on this, trying to beat each other's scores. I discovered the balloon "hack". I am on the first level where there is no danger of dying and just camping out, waiting for balloons. At 2093 points currently.
I also am the one with the "no dying" problem. As long as I am not near the bottom of the screen, I can take infinite hits. He catches himself and I can work my way back to the top of the screen.
Playing the 8 level mode on a Chrome browser via Android.
Damn :D Hot fix incoming. I probably have to reset hiscores :/
Update 3: Hotfix
- Hopefully I fixed the issue where the game won't return to the title screen after losing all lives 🤞
- Balloons now only appear every fourth pickup (people, items, balloons itself).
That fixed it. No more infinite score and no more infinite lives. I'm also loving the new control layout. Thanks donswelt!
Just wanted to post and say thanks for the update. I have now played almost 10 hours of this game! :)
It's really addictive. My only note would be that in Survival mode that final wave is so brutal and now repeats over and over whereas in the 8-round mode you know you only have to get through it once (and still by far the hardest part of the game). Survival would be far more desirable to play if say Otto threw about 60% of the balls he currently throws in survival mode if that is what every wave will be after 8. Just my personal take. Also if it's possible maybe it could be Ectron-guy throwing lighting bolts? I don't recall other squid based doctor villains throwing green balls before is all.
Also, anyway we can donate to you? I feel bad getting so much fun for free :)
@Paramania Ten hours!? Wow :D
I am working on a more balanced survival mode but I had a busy week.
You can always go to to my Itch page where I uploaded all my games with pay what you want: https://donswelt.itch.io/
But you really don’t need to. This is my primary hobby and hearing from people that they play my games and like them is reward enough for me!
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