At Least It's Not Death | Platformer Game With A Twist | Java Game Development
Repository
https://github.com/ajayyy/AtLeastItsNotDeath/
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What is it?
At least it’s not death is a platformer game with some nice options when you die (so don’t just beat it first try ;)).
When you die, you will be given two options. On one side, you get one power up in exchange for two sacrifices. You may choose which you would like by pressing A or D.
Each death, you must make a sacrifice, which usually are some crazy visual effect on the screen.
Technology Stack
This is built with Java and an awesome open source library called Lib-GDX. This allows you to have full access to all OpenGL functions (through LWJGL) in Java. There are also some shaders used (for the colour changing visual effect and the lighting visual effect). These are written with GLSL. The "Bloom" post processing effect is created using a post processing plugin.
Features
Physics
The physics is programmed in mannually and is meant to be as modifiable as possible. This is done to ensure that the powerups and negative powers can easily change how the physics work to make it easier or harder.
Expandable Power Up System
The power up system is easily expandable by making a new switch statement in the power up class making even community submitted power ups simple to create.
Smoothed out animations
To make animations feel smooth, a lerp system is used. This makes the movement ease in.
float lerp = 2.5f;
float xMovement = ((x - game.main.cam.position.x) * lerp * game.deltaTime);
This makes the movement much nicer to look at.
Random rotation
Screenshake
Low lighting effect
It is made using shaders. It is based off vertexes (corners) of each object.
Download And Try It
https://github.com/ajayyy/AtLeastItsNotDeath/releases
Thanks for the contribution, @ajayyy! As you know I just finished playing it and so I thought I might as well review it!
It was a fun game, and a really cool idea, especially for something that you had to come up with in such a short time! Some power ups and sacrifices were a bit more overpowered than others, so sometimes I suicided immediately to get the one I wanted haha. Found some funny interactions as well, but let's not get into that! I wish the game was longer, but as I mentioned with the amount of time you had this is very understandable.
As for the code; that looks fine to me as well. I don't really want to give in depth feedback about it since it was made for a game jam, so I won't.
Would be cool to see you expand on this game further, to be honest! Do you have any plans for this?
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I do think it would be interesting to expand on the powers concept. I might try implementing it into the multiplayer web game I am working on if I get some time for that, it would be cool to see how that would work against other players. Though, a lot of balancing would have to be done.
Thanks for the review and thanks for playing it!
Thank you for your review, @amosbastian! Keep up the good work!
Cool :)
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