The Arcade Explorer
[Français / English]
The Arcade Explorer est un jeu de plateforme 2D et d'exploration. Vous incarnez un petit personnage qui doit trouver des pièces pour pouvoir jouer à une borne d'arcade, récupérer de nouvelles capacités et ainsi progresser dans une petite carte.
The Arcade Explorer is a 2D platform and exploration game. You play as a small character who has to find coins to be able to play at an arcade terminal, recover new capacities and thus progress in a small map.
Il a été développé en solo et en 60h durant la VGL Game Jam de 2021 (thème : Arcade) organisée par At0mium (https://twitter.com/At0mium_). C'était ma première participation à une Game Jam et je suis très content du résultat, c'était une super expérience ! Et vous allez sûrement tomber sur pas mal de bugs mais j'espère que ça vous plaira ! La version de la Jam est disponible en téléchargement plus bas.
It was developed in solo and in 60h during the 2021 VGL Game Jam (theme: Arcade) organized by At0mium (https://twitter.com/At0mium_). It was my first participation in a Game Jam and I'm very happy with the result, it was a great experience! And you'll probably run into a lot of bugs but I hope you'll like it! The Jam version is available for download below.
Contrôles : Manette / Clavier
- Stick Gauche ou D-Pad / ZQSD : se déplacer
- Stick Droit / Flèches (haut et bas) : déplacer la caméra en haut ou en bas (c'est un peu cassé avec l'export web cependant)
- Bouton Sud (A) / Espace : Saut (à débloquer) et Wall-Jump (à débloquer)
- Bouton Ouest (X) / Ctrl Droit : Dash (à débloquer, possible dans toutes les directions)
- Bouton Nord (Y) / I : allumer ou éteindre la borne d'arcade (nécessite une pièce)
- Start / P : pause.
Controls: Gamepad / Keyboard :
- Left Stick or D-Pad / WASD : move
- Right Stick / Arrows (up and down) : move the camera up or down (it's a bit broken with the web export though)
- South button (A) / Space : Jump (to unlock) and Wall-Jump (to unlock)
- West button (X) / Ctrl Right : Dash (to unclock, possible in all directions)
- North button (Y) / I : turn on or off the arcade terminal (requires a coin)
- Start / P : pause.
Ressources externes utilisées / External resources used :
- Package PixelGraphics : https://github.com/aarthificial/pixelgraphics
- Package SaveGameFree : https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/save-game-free-gold...
- Police de caractère / Font : https://www.dafont.com/fr/early-gameboy.font
- Effets sonores faits avec le logiciel sfxr / Sound effects made with the sfxr software : https://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
Development log
- The Arcade Explorer - Post-Jam Build 1.1Jan 19, 2022
Comments
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Ctrl for jumping and only W for up is a BAD combination. game keeps closing while making upward jumps.
Ctrl is supposed to be the dash so it's weird. And I'm french so the game controls are based on an azerty keyboard, maybe this explain the W for up being a bad combination. I'm working on the rebind system but it's gonna take a while though!
And about the game closing while making upwards jumps, this is really strange... Are you talking about dashes? And could you tell me on what search engine you played (or on what operating system if you downloaded the game)?
Thanks for the feedback!
what I mean is that the browser tab tends to close when performing an upward dash. (CTRL+W is the default bind for tab-closing on practically all browsers, and this game doesn't seem to make any attempt to properly intercept inputs)
Oh ok I see, I will at least change the base controls to avoid this and try to update the game in a few days, thanks for the clarification!
Level design incroyable ! Le développeur de The Lost Egg tient bien sa réputation ! De très bonnes idées ! Et le thème est respecté ! Bravo pour tout ce travail ! J'achète !
Haha merci beaucoup !
good game. few recommendations:
when you pick up a powerup, an explanation what it does and which button to use it for would be good.
even though you probably explained this on your site here, I jsut dont understand it cause I dont speak french :-)
so having someone post an english translation might be useful :-)
for anyone else wondering:
there is a jump upgrade (jump with space),
a dash upgrade (dash with C)
and a walljump (self explaining I guess)
you collect golden coins in the "real" world and each such coin unlocks new content in the arcade.
vise versa, in the arcade you find (blue I guess) tokens which give you a new ability.
which you keep both in the arcade world AND the real world.
so its a back and forth between exploring the arcade world and the real world :-)
question @developer:
I got to the point where I inserted a new coin and the arcade... did an unexpected thing.
Is this the end of the game?
Thanks for the recommendations, I will surely include explanations for each powerup in the future but I didn't have the time during the Game Jam. And I added a translation to the post so if you see any mistakes tell me!
And yes the unexpected thing that the arcade does marks the end of the game :) Congrats and thanks for playing!
Yes, the explanations are fine, nice job :-)
Thanks!