Solid concept, but the shield doesn't always reflect when it feels like it should. The difficulty spikes right after you learn the basics, throwing multiple enemies with next to no warning. The boss fight was chore, as it had no pattern aside from spawning the explosive enemy every few seconds, had no set firing pattern for the turrets that I could see, the bullets would reflect in random directions, and running out of energy for the shield was a death sentence.
Author Comments
J4CK-0-L4NTERN is a short halloween themed platformer where the only way to destroy enemies is reflecting the projectiles they shoot at you. As the name suggests it should be a reimagining of the legend of the Jack o'Lantern in a sci-fi setting, but not really.
Commands:
A/D - Move left/right
Space Bar - Jump
Mouse - Move the lantern
Left mouse button - Shield; it will stay active as long as you keep the mouse button pressed
Warning: If while playing you run into any problems, graphical glitches, you don't hear sounds or music, or the game just doesn't run well consider playing the game in another browser.
Credits
An UnsupervisedWoods game
Non-Original Graphical Assets:
Humanoid robot and explosion by Ansimuz
Font by Nate547
Music:
Kayupla
Bocuma
pdkmusic
Sounds:
"Big Metal Chain" and "Mechanism Stuck" Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license
miguelstar2
hykenfreak
Little Robot Sound Factory
Kenney.nl
ObsydianX
Cough-E
rubberduck
Timothy Adan
legoluft
The core mechanic is just too finicky for the game to be fun. It's a problem when getting out of the first real room is difficult
It's pretty fun. It seems like that the game completely crashes when you die though.
UnsupervisedWoods responds:
I thought I fixed that problem; are you using the latest version of your browser?
EDIT: Whoops, just realized it's not possible for you to answer here (sorry, I'm new to this site). Can you contact me through private message?