Once you get the hang of the controls, it really is a blast to play. I'm not typically one for speedruns or no death runs, but I just might replay it a few times in the future just to challenge myself. I'm fairly decent at platformers, so it'd be cool to see how far I can hone my skills. I'm playing Celeste Classic 2 which utilizes a grappling hook as the primary mechanic, and it's giving me a run for my money too. All of this amped up platforming challenge is actually making me want to download a NES or SNES Super Mario Kaizo hack.
Haha, and here I was thinking that I did horribly. I saw someone on a random reddit thread say they did it in 400 and something.
As I was typing this out I rechecked the thread and they we're playing the full PC version with assist mode on. Apparently the PC version has the original playable within the game at some point. A quick Google search put the average at 1000-1200 or more deaths for the Pico-8 version.
So, damn. That makes me feel pretty awesome lol. Thanks for the kind words, you made my day!
A gruff, one-eyed, one-legged seagull looks at you and the crumbled fiver with unreserved scorn. He caws loudly at the assembled seagulls on the railings and decks of nearby boats,"Hey guys, getta load of this schmoe treatin' us like we's a bunch of knuckle draggin' apes, wadda we gonna do wit that ass-wipe?! And you come 'round 'ere actin' like youse one-a us!! Get 'em boys, we don' need no polly poser on our territory, 'specially when they ain' got no food to gives us!
A huge mass of seagulls start furiously dive-bombing you, pecking at swiping at you with their feet. Dozens and dozens of angry gulls swarm about you, as you try and bat them away, your foot slips into a pile or rope left on the deck, tripping you, causing you to stumble overboard! The rope winds itself around you leg, preventing you from fulling into the harbor, but you know dangle helplessly from the side of the boat like a colorful pinata. The birds continue to swarm, taking turns carrying nearby trash and dropping it on you. You hang upside down, covered with egg shells, burger wrappers and half eaten corndogs.
Nearby the robot is struggling to get up, it slams it's fist on the ground angrily, like some sleep-deprived toddler throwing a tantrum. Just behind him, wedged into the branches of a tree and looking like a large dustbunny, is Wattage Woman, struggling to dislodge herself.
I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that independent comic creators are spread out over multiple publishing companies and not just a few independent imprints. You have Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics and a whole host of others that publish smaller, indie graphic novels. There are also a lot of traditional book publishers that publish graphic novels now too. There's a lot out there, but it's not under any one umbrella like it was back in the 80s/90s.
We're you inspired by Crayon Physics? Looks similar. Congrats on finishing and releasing it after so long developing it ;)
Right on, that's good on them. I was honestly disappointed to learn that they were deniers years ago, which definitely effected my ability to watch the show afterwards. I'll have to check out the episode when I can.
RISUS was created by S John Ross, and inspired by the old Ghostbusters RPG and a few others. It is a traditional/narrative hybrid created at a time when narrative oriented games were scarce (Fudge probably being the best example of the dominant narrative system at that time, which was the foundation for FATE). The RISUS pdf is freely downloadable online, but oddly is under a copyright which prevents the remixing and hacking you often see with CC or other open source licenses (used by Laset & Feelings and others). That's why I decided to create a clone, so others could remix and adapt it freely. I'm still working on creating more content for it, and have plans for a wiki as well as a community space for it, but it's slow going due to finding the time to work on it. Here's a link to the original RISUS system if you're curious: https://archive.org/download/RisusTheAnythingRPG/Risus%20-%20The%20Anything%20RPG.pdf
I think I may have heard of GROK, but only in name. I haven't ever seen the system itself. I'll have to take a lool at it sometime when I get the chance.
+2 for Supercharged ball of lint and lots of stuff to ricochet off of. Roll is a 5: you succeed at a steep cost.
You brace yourself against the shockwave and hurl yourself in the direction of the blast. You fly head-first into a nearby garbage bin, dumping it's contents out and smothering you with plastic bags, cans, banana peels, egg shells, coffee grounds and bags of what you are certain can only be dog shit. Sailing through the air, feeling like a miniature landfill, you bounce off of the side of a car, pirouette off of a the roof of a bus-stop covering and ping off a nearby light pole and into a tree. You are wedged in between the branches of the tree, to the untrained eye you now resemble a gigantic gumball that's rolled through the dirt, hair,candy, popcorn and spilled soda filth under the seats at the local movie theater. With great difficulty you struggle in your congealed refuse.
You run like hell for the harbor and take a flying leap aiming for the water, but just as you do the gust meets you above the water and blows you aboard a whaling ship, depositing you on the fore-deck. You land on your feet and skid to a halt right before the tip of a large harpoon gun mounted to the ship's deck.
Oh, I didn't realize they'd revisited the gag. Thanks for the head's up.
That's exactly it, I almost used the good cop/bad cop analogy for my original comment. It's been glaringly obvious that the dems are just a pressure-release valve for people's anger for some time now. They never live up to any of the expectations that people have for them. At this point it is a cruel Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown facade. And democrat voters eat it up every time.
Now the biggest sentiment from liberals is "this is your fault, if only you'd voted for the dems", when it is largely irrelevant if voters do. The dems are just a friendlier looking version of a corporate controlled imperialistic government. The sooner the people realize this, the sooner we can actually mobilize people against the real enemies of the people, which is corporate control of both political parties. Until class-consciousness manifests itself on a much larger scale, we'll continue to play these stupid corporate controlled dem vs repub games and win more stupid prizes.
Yeah, I dabbled a bit with the full game since I own it through itch.io. But never played past the third stage. I'm no stranger towards brutal platformers though, so maybe that gave me a little bit of a boost. I can hold my own with fairly difficult games and have even tried my hand at some Mario Kaizo hacks. That said, I still felt like I was doing a lot worse than I was apparently. It's also been quite some time since I really took on a challenge of this difficulty, as I have been mostly been playing cozy stuff like TOEM and GNOG lately. I'm really enjoying the change of pace though, it feels good to beat a good challenge like this again. I'm playing through Celeste Classic 2 now, and I'll be playing the full Celeste soon as well.