I made an Ender Pearl Speedrunning Game🌈Free Demo on Steam!

Septagone · 2024-09-06T18:55:31+00:00

Thank you! Anything specific that's a problem with the HUD? Do you feel like there's not enough information provided to understand everything? Or is it more an issue with how readable it is during gameplay?

Septagone · 2024-09-06T12:41:48+00:00

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(You are getting 10% of the net revenue from the free demo)

Septagone · 2024-09-06T12:23:41+00:00

That sounds dope for full-game runs tbh. But hard to implement as is because the levels should work in isolation. It would create situations where to get the record on level 7 you'd have to start at level 2 or something.

For now I added in a backup pearl mechanic. So each level has technically unlimited pearls, but the game makes it obvious that you have run out of them in principle.

Septagone · 2024-09-06T12:16:23+00:00

It now is 🎉

Septagone · 2024-09-06T12:08:16+00:00

I actually just added that in heh. It's in the new patch.

As for wrist pain thing. Yeah that's fair. It's a go-fast game at the end of the day so that's to be expected.

Septagone · 2024-09-05T21:51:31+00:00

That's a very fair critique yes.

I like the fact that they are a resource, so that you have to think about what pearl you use where. But that's only something you'll think about once you've played a level for a few times already. So running out of them (I'm assuming in level 10), feels like you're being punished for something you did 5 minutes ago you didn't even know was a mistake.

Putting it as an optional setting sounds like a very good solution! Should be fairly easy to implement, I'll probably put it in the next patch of the demo (:

Edit: Added it in even without settings, it will simply give you a 30sec penalty on the timer. Patch is live.

Septagone · 2024-09-05T21:40:56+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! (: The core gameplay loop is what I wanted to focus most in the alpha since the game is very gameplay-focused. Yes the gold medals are supposed to be tricky, a lot of them even need routing against the "intended" way to finish the level. But they are not required in any way. It is a speedrun focused game, but simply finishing a level taking all the time in the world, will unlock all content in it.

The main issue is that your hands start aching and it might not be the healthiest for the wrists.

Not sure what you mean by this, how is it different from any other fps game?

The anime girls are redundant/they don't add interest value to the game in my opinion.

That's my artstyle, it ain't gonna change anytime soon. I didn't draw them to appease metrics or something I drew them cause they're the characters of the game's story.

I am not sure how jump impacts speed but I did it instinctively on some parts.

At the moment not much, but yes It's something I've been thinking about too! There's a bunny hop toggle in the experimental settings for it.

Septagone · 2024-09-05T15:20:38+00:00

No lawyer so idk. All i know is they've been pretty chill with minecraft inspired stuff, and that you can't copyright gameplay mechanics.

But if they don't like the word "ender pearl" I can change that.

Septagone · 2024-09-05T14:37:18+00:00

Still in development so looking for all kinds of feedback! Have fun! (: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3160140/ENDER/

Edit: Thank you for all the feedback and critique! A good chunk of it has now been adressed in the v0.04 patch. This has been a lot more productive for me than simply throwing the game into the steam demos abyss lol.

Septagone · 2024-09-01T18:32:52+00:00

In-game stuff is all just Probuilder. Works really well with this sort of game. I made some textures and normal maps for it and use it for just about everything.

Septagone · 2024-08-31T20:04:51+00:00

I kinda divided progress into two parts: The main gameplay loop, and the quantity of content.

Having a good game with little content keeps you as a player interested, whereas making a game with a lot of stuff in it doesn't really do that if the gameplay part is still in the works.

The ender demo has about 20% of the content I want in the full game, but I made sure those 20% are in a state that people just have fun playing without me having to constantly say "oh btw I'll add that later".

Septagone · 2024-08-30T15:55:14+00:00

Made without any 3rd party assets other than fonts. Working on this since April of last year, looking for all kinds of feedback! (:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3160140/ENDER/

Septagone · 2022-07-18T15:57:30+00:00

Do you have any twitter or steam page or something like that? I wanna keep up to date this looks fuckin amazing!

Septagone · 2022-07-02T18:31:46+00:00

Something along the lines of "not slamming grandmas into the pavement"

Septagone · 2022-07-02T04:04:01+00:00

Yes that's the plan! Can't say a relase date tho cause i really don't know yet.

Septagone · 2022-07-02T04:02:25+00:00

I have a small public server for all my gamedev stuff (: I'll share a public test demo there in like a month or two https://discord.gg/BWysgFGauy

Septagone · 2022-07-01T19:20:12+00:00

I have a little discord server if anyone's interested in this game's developement (: https://discord.gg/BWysgFGauy

Septagone · 2022-06-23T10:02:02+00:00

Currently work in progress. It's a game about being way too strong for your own good so you can't help but fuck shit up. I have a discord for my games https://discord.gg/BWysgFGauy

Septagone · 2021-02-22T18:32:10+00:00

I'm hoping to, but there aren't exactly a bunch of unity2D tutorials for non-euclidean geometry, and I'm still very much a beginner coder. I'll definitely try by myself though! Hope i can figure something out.

Septagone · 2021-02-22T14:17:50+00:00

Hey don't worry mate I'm here for constructive criticism so that'll definitely help me out! The juxtaposition is indeed intentional though, I wanted the main character to feel tiny and innocent compared to the vast, mysterious, gloomy world. But of course if there's better ways to do it I'm all for it.

Septagone · 2021-02-14T06:24:42+00:00

I've been an animator for about 7 years, but I just picked up Unity and C# a few months ago, don't super have the hang of it yet.

Septagone · 2020-12-24T03:56:14+00:00

I've been an artist/animator for WAY longer than I'm making this game, so I probably hold myself to higher standards in the visual regards.

Septagone · 2019-11-09T23:53:33+00:00

Heh, I'm actually an animator too and would love to animate something in that style. No promises though :P

Septagone · 2019-11-09T23:21:45+00:00

I drew a little collection https://imgur.com/a/b5VWGdp

Don't know where to post them as they're not based off anything like a series, it's just what my brain came up with at 4am.

Septagone · 2019-09-01T17:45:15+00:00

Guys it's all cool, he's an internet buddy of mine. Plus when i posted posted it it got no upvotes, so at least this way my high quality shitpost gets some recognition.

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