WIP - Ivy

Armelline

Inspired by a method uploaded by @gyroscope in response to someone's question, I found myself making a little game I felt like playing.

The object is simple - close the ivy gates to stop the blocks reaching the right side of the screen.

• You can only destroy ivy blocks with the corresponding ivy gates
• White blocks must not be destroyed, black blocks can be destroyed by any gate
• As you progress further, ivy blocks must be hit by multiple gates to be destroyed!

Unfortunately it's one of those games that can only really be played on the device - it's just too difficult to move the mouse fast enough

And a little bit of video so you can see it in action!

It's nice and smooth in viewer/on device, but gets a little stuttery when recording (probably too many big documents open in Photoshop).

There's not much more too it than seen. Anyhow, feedback welcome!

Doguz

Looks cool. Call it Flappy Ivy and your onto a hit. But seriously it a great mechanic. And the type of game thats in the genre of Flappy. One tap addictive.

lycettebros

Sweet.

quantumsheep

Very nice!

One suggestion from seeing the video:

Allow 2 (or more!) gates to be closed at once.

The reason being that you lost lives, not because you weren't clicking the corresponding gate, but because closing the corresponding gate means that you can't close another gate in time.

Example:
In your vid, at around 35 seconds, you close the red gate - this means that you miss the blue block.

Of course, if you can already do this (and just can't show it in the video!) then ignore what I've said.

(you could, for testing purposes, make the gates close via buttons - e.g. 1 for the first gate, 2 for the second etc etc - that might also help with videos too!)

QS =D

Armelline

You can absolutely close as many gates as you want on device, I was just too lazy to add keyboard commands for making the video :P game quickly becomes impossible if you only use one at a time

Thanks for the comments guys!

mcrtom

Lovely!

Armelline

Have added a jiggle to the gates when they're hit by an incorrect block, and to the whole screen when a block reaches the right edge. I did this partly to add some more "negative feedback" and because it gave me an excuse to finally make and use an actor called The Jiggler.

^{(Not my image, and not in the game. I don't even like Adventure Time that much. I just love the word jiggler.)}

Also, working on some achievements. Going to pump this game full of all the stuff Apple loves.

So far I've got:

• Fat Fingers - Close all 5 gates at once
• Seeing Double - Destroy 50 double blocks
• Green Thumbed - Score 100 points in a single game
• Versatility - Destroy a black block with every colour gate in a single game
• Garden Leave - Destroy 1000 blocks
• Titchmarshed - Score 150 in a single game
• Dedication - Destroy 5000 blocks
• Beat the Developer - Score over 200 in a single game
• I Can See A Rainbow - Touch the gates in the order they'd be found in a rainbow
• You Can't Hurt Me - Score 100 points in a single game before losing a life

Making up achievements for such a simple game is hard

UtopianGames

Me likes

Darren.

Armelline

@DeepBlueApps said:
Me likes

Darren.

I knew the Jiggler would win people over!

Braydon_SFX

What an interesting concept! Nice job! Looks like a fun game!

gyroscope

@Armelline said:
Inspired by a method uploaded by @gyroscope in response to someone's question, I found myself making a little game I felt like playing.

Hey, @Armelline, thanks for the credit, appreciated! I'm pleased my l'il GSC file inspired you to make a full-blown game.

It's looking good, and getting sophisticated with all the achievements, for example. ("Titchmarshed" - Ha! Funny but our non-UK friends probably won't understand that!)

Best of luck with Ivy, I hope it goes from strength to strength.

P.S Love "The Jiggler" - most surreal, but excellent!

Armelline

Thanks all!

@gyroscope said:
thanks for the credit, appreciated! I'm pleased my l'il GSC file inspired you to make a full-blown game.

Any time! I looked at the little demo to see if you did it the same I would have (I always want to see if things are done the same way I would :P) and pressed it. It was so satisfying I said to myself "I must do this more." So I made a game! I ended up implementing it a bit differently but the effect is very much the same!

"Titchmarshed" - Ha! Funny but our non-UK friends probably won't understand that!)

I considered that but decided "meh". I went to uni with a guy who was a dead ringer for him. Eerily similar.

P.S Love "The Jiggler" - most surreal, but excellent!

I can't take any credit for The Jiggler, but he's one funky little dude!

On a side note, that little demo you made was probably the first time I ever saw anyone actually use scene attributes.

mcrtom

Titchmarsh and Adventure time in the same thread! This !@#$% is messed up...

radagar

I really liked it interesting concept good flow nice graphics looks like a really good game.