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Full title: Endless Runner w/ Boss Fights
Controls: Arrow keys to move, space bar to retry. Navigate the menus with the mouse.
There are three levels, which appear in a random order. Bosses require you to solve a puzzle involving their weak point in order to beat. Each level has it's own art style, because they where each drawn by someone else.
This game was made to test the viability of including more engaging game mechanics to the endless runner genre.
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Considering this is a tech demo, the principle is actually quite nice. Reminds me of Bit Trip Runner.
Of course, in the finished product it would be nice to have a greater variety of obsctacles, to randomize things a bit... and most importantly, to add a difficulty mechanic. Unless you play for the game to have a proper end, the game must have a mechanic that make the game eventually end.
Likewise, an interesting mechanic for endless games is having an unlockable animation/ending sequence varying on how far you made it before the game ended.
For the finished product, I suggest you add sound effects. Also, clean up the running animation a bit ; it looks a bit awkward. The warning arrows are a nice touch as is the boss weakness indicator at the start of the fight.
Graphics aren't especially impressive but I liked the general design of the opponents and the ways to dispatch them.
As a whole, I encourage you to keep going with this project.
Thank you, this is a wonderful review and your suggestions are really helpful.
The controls are awful and with that jump animation I'm never sure if I'm going to clear an obstacle. If you're going to make me hit weak spots with specific jumps then make the jump controls more solid.
you don't hit weak spots with jumps. There is always a hidden way to defeat the boss, that usually involves the boss itself or another nearby threat.
I don't understand your argument about the controls, because it's only the arrow keys with up to jump (fairly standard controls for a flash game)