Puzzle game prototype - asking for feedback about concept

Captain P · 2006-02-14T15:39:00

The concept Recently I read an old article on Gamasutra about a small team of students that decided to do a game prototype project. They each created one prototype per week. That inspired me to create a fast prototype of a small idea I've been playing with recently. And with fast prototype I mean a sort of half text-based approach to a tile-based level. Anyway, the idea was to have a player-controlled ball that can be changed through use of ball-changer. Think of normal balls, fire balls or rock balls. Throughout the levels several obstacles are placed. Each ball can resist or overcome specific obstacles but is vulnerable to others. Think of fire (normal ball burns) or water (fire ball gets extuinguished and rock ball gets drowned). Additional objects like buttons and crates would provide more interesting options. The prototype itself Here is an informative screenshot of the prototype: and here is the download: Fryball prototype (96 KB) (Please note that the readme file only contains information about the level sripting, not about how to play - playing is done using the W, A, S and D key for movement, R for resetting the level). The question My question is: what do you find interesting about this concept and what bugs you about it? What would you add, change or remove? Did you find this fun to play or was it rather standard? (In case you want to experiment with this, it's possible to change the current levels or write your own, the scripting system's abilities are documented in the readme). I have idea's about additions like a metal ball that is capable of charging up at charging stations, with metal crates that can be used to move additional charges around used for machinery. Or items like buckets to extuingish fire with or generally keys to unlock doors (though that basically just means you need to walk around some more so they're quite similar to buttons). I'm also thinking about moveable platforms to get across depths or such, or to transport crates with and what-not. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks in advance. :)

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Started by Captain P February 11, 2006 04:53 PM

10 comments, last by Captain P 19 years ago

someboddy

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February 14, 2006 11:22 AM

No problems. I have done some ASCII games myself in the past and I know how annoying it can be.

Anyways, why won't you upload a buffered version?

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Captain P

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February 14, 2006 03:39 PM

Oh, heh, sure. I've updated the download now. Didn't add new things to it yet though (being able to script tiles and balltypes and allowing entities to filter for balltypes or crates would surely help experimenting here).

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