New non-AGS game: Darkside Adventures

[Bernie]

While working on Reactor 09, I took a longer break to make another freeware game. The whole point of this thread is to get it out into the world and maybe get a few opinions and whatnot.

AGwaK2: Darkside Adventures can be downloaded HERE (15 MB, 7z SFX archive).

Screenshots:


AGwaK2: DA is a platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros. 2 and the mario franchise in general. I tried to make it look and play like a SNES game. The game features a world map, new moves to learn, quite a few bosses, items to pick up and throw, 4 secret levels to find and more.

Sean Cameron made the soundtrack for this game. (Thanks, Sean!)

If you're into old-school platformers, this might interest you. Feel free to criticise the game or post suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Heh, just looking at the screenie reminds me of Kitty.

[Buckethead]

Looks interesting! Will check it later.

[Nikolas]

Ok. For the record kitty IS the first game my son, Dimitris ever played! so there! A great little game kitty was.

Downloading now to check out the new game. Thank you Bernie

EDIT: Haha! My kid loves it as well! So do I It does remind me of kitty, but it's really cute and funny, and well (as it appears) built on th esame engine? I just happened to love platformers (as well as adventures and rpgs), but also your quality in game making.

Great stuff Bernie!

[sergiocornaga]

Your games give me such Joy, Bernie. I guess that's why they call you the "Pixel of the west."

[Bernie]

Thanks! Haha, 'Pixel of the West'? That's funny.

Nikolas: The engine is the same, only with some additional code. The game was made with Clickteam's Multimedia Fusion 2. The Kitty engine was very reliable, so I like to re-use it for new projects. Happy to hear your son likes the games!

A warning, though: The game makes frequent use of the word 'damn', which apparently seems to be more of a bad word than I had thought. Well, damn!

[Esseb]

Thanks! Haha, 'Pixel of the West'? That's funny.

http://tigsource.dynamiksites.com/articles/2006/11/25/darkside-adventures

[DoorKnobHandle]

Yep, your game is great, Bernie. I enjoyed Kitty but this is way better, in my opinion, although it takes a little bit to get used to the controls! I love it although I'm stuck!

[Mordalles]

glad to see it finished, bernie. also stuck. 

Spoiler

i am suppose to go back to 1.1, but now that i am back there, i don't know where to go. could somebody please help!

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[TheJBurger]

Nice game BernieÃ,  , I loved your other game kitty and was excited to play this one.

The throwing controls are a little frustrating to me, but I tried to get around it. Also, I keep dying and have to restart at the beginning of each level over and over. I must suck at platformers.Ã,  :o

I'm still playing it, so I might post more later.

Mordalles:

Spoiler

I was stuck here for a while too. On 1-1, go to the room that has a locked door and a key to the left. You have to make a running jump (which makes you jump higher) onto the right ledge, then get the bomb and drop it on the blue square to get the key.

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[Vince Twelve]

Awesome stuff, Bernie!  I loved Kitty and I'm loving this.  The only thing that annoys me is trying to control it with the keyboard.  I need to invest in a game pad or something.

Excellent job, AGAIN! Congratulations!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Oh no, I crashed it ;o

Spoiler

double deaths are bad!
http://members.cox.net/progzmax/doubledeath.gif
It won't let me continue through the dialog since the controls are frozen at death ;(

[close]

Nice work, Bernie.  You've managed to capture all that was frustrating and good about old platformers!

[buloght]

Great game as usual bernie!

[Bernie]

Thanks for the feedback! I tried to make a game I'd like to play and it looks like some hate it and some like it. Interesting indeed!

ProgZmax: Oh noes! Looks like a case of very bad timing - dialogue trigger and dying trigger at the same time. I tried to fix that one, but it still happens sometimes. You got pretty far already!

Vince: Thanks! Yeah, a gamepad could help, but I seem more content with keyboard controls, myself. I play so many games with the keyboard that I'm totally used to it and forget about those who may not be that used to it.

TheJBurger: The game is pretty hard overall. I doubt you suck at platformers!

dkh/Mordalles: Feel free to ask for hints if you're stuck. I'll answer them as soon as I can.

buloght: Thanks!

[Mordalles]

Spoiler

where do i have to go in the lake 3-1?  i can see the opening on the right side, bu can't reach it.

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[Bernie]

Mordalles:

Spoiler

Swim to the bottom of the lake. Something's chained to the ground. I'm sure we can do something about that, right?

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[Nikolas]

Just wanted to say that I'm in the...Nothing right now!

Brilliant game Bernnie!

[Bernie]

Thanks! That one's a pretty tough level!

[TheJBurger]

Just finished the game. It was good, yet hard. Congrats on a job well done.Ã, 

Spoiler

The wind-sequence towards the end might be one of the most frustrating sequences I've played in a while.Ã, 

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Also, does collecting the big gems have any effect? I collected quite a few, not all of them, and it never seemed to help me in any way.
I myself was kind of hoping for more moves, but it was still good.Ã, 

[Bernie]

The gems can help you getting into a special secret level (85% completion required), and you can get one more heart powerup. Finishing that secret level gives you a slightly different ending.

Thanks for playing my game!