Downclimber

Summary

Game made with pico 8, delve into the depths of a mountain

A simple but punishing down going platformer.

Controls: arrows and z. (x)

Follow the guides for mechanics. 

Due to "popular" demand i decided to "finish" this jam game after the jam, timecapsule version of the jam available Ludum Dare event

Jam Thoughts

This was my first real touch to pico 8, which is a fun fantasy console. I simulated doing a “offline jam” so i didn’t search for any solutions during the jam from the internet and only relied on the pico-8 manual and this nice cheat sheet Trying to get max level depth of the supported space lead to a creative solution and bad solution. Trying to create a custom physics engine from scratch without any support is fun but taxing.

Still, I am pretty impressed on how well i got the things working. I would recommend anybody who is into game engines to try-out developing in with some-kind of old school emulator or fantasy console.

After Jam

Some people liked the game so I decided to fully use the available map space in pico 8 and "finished" the game. It now has more areas, a proper end and some fixes of bugs. The movement is not what I initially wanted still and some bugs are there but I decided to just have a simple version of "what if" i had more time during the jam.  The main thing that was "hard" was to draw the map piece by piece and transfer cordinates. Its not really that well done now either but it works.