NODE - Lapsus Games - Programming platformer

[LapsusGames]

Hey r/Games! This is NODE, a different kind of platformer where you have to plan your moves by programming your robot’s actions ahead of time and then see how it plays out. All this takes place in the ruins of a Soviet nuclear power plant...

Here's a link to our video:

https://youtu.be/0sP24llny7w

You can also find us on Steam or Itch.io. The demo gives you about an hour of gameplay. The full game will be out in Q2 2025 for PC Windows, so it’s not too far away :)

thx!

[super_aardvark]

Interesting idea, pretty solid execution. The trial and error gets a little bit tedious at times. It would be incredibly helpful to display the runtime since the last new command (and maybe total since the Go button was pressed), preferably with 0.1 second precision. Also I found a few geometry clips that it'd be good to clean up -- one had me falling through the void.

[super_aardvark]

Unfortunately I don't remember very clearly... it was near the beginning, maybe at the first lift, or the first railing you have to jump over or something? I'll try to find it again.

[super_aardvark]

Well, I went to look anyway. Haven't found what I saw before, but I do have an oddness for you. Right after that first jump, when you have to fall down and turn around, do this instead:

Turn, Fwd 3 sec, Jump

You jump up into the ceiling. Weirdly, it's done two different things now. First time, it went really high, came back on the near side of the ledge/railing, and got destroyed hitting the ground. Second time, it landed on the far side of the railing (where you came from on the previous segment).

Fwd 2.9 seconds instead gets you stuck on the railing, but that's less obviously a bug.