Touching game, Tight controls and memorable story, short and sweet.
The developers planned this out in a way that as soon as you get a grasp of the controls, they are slowly taken away, leaving you with a feeling of loss AND new ways to explore levels, as easy as that may be to traverse when playing, it would have taken a bit of care to do and I commend the devs on this.
4.5 stars for you chaps!
P.s. Holy crap that run cycle is just SO satisfying.
The fact that he was so very vibrant at the beginning, almost to a zany level of energy provided a stark contrast for how he ended up towards the end. This was an excellent representation of the effects of the disease. Also, very smooth flow to the game. Control was spot on. It started out so colorful and cheery, and well, it stayed colorful. Nice work. Very important to provide insight into this so that people have a better understanding.
even tho bro was awfully sick, he still went through all that just to get milk to his wife and kid. very touching ;)
While I do agree with m6wg4bxw's review, I will, for now, put aside all the ALS thing, and just focus on the gamey aspects.
Visually it's really appealing, and what is more important to me in pixel-artsy games, it really IS pixel art, without any scaling elements that clearly are not in the same resolution as the reast of the game.
Sound is standard, nothing extraordinary, simply fitting the theme.
Controls are a bit too... responsive? There could be some short delay after landing, so it would be not possible to jump immidiately again. That is my only. very minor complain, and it have almost no impact on the gameplay.
Now the ALS... While the story is ok, the ridiculous pacing is killing it. Some random dude pops out and tell us we have ALS, then we go out for some milk, and the ALS kicks in so hard, that after 5-10 minutes, we can barely stand... I understand that maybe you had not that much time to make this game, or you just didn't wanted to make it longer, but the message would be so much better with, for exaple, every level taking away one of player's abilities, not almost each screen.
Still, strong 4 stars for the quality.
Well designed concept and overall gameplay. Just curious did you make it in the flash IDE or some other program like Stencyl or Construct?
We used flashdevelop + flashpunk for the programming and photoshop for art