Finished. Loved the clapping to the beat in the outro haha. Amazing game. Loved the intro and outro animation.Can’t believe you made this free not even letting us pay. Thank u!!
Thanks for the kind words (and genuinely appreciate hearing that someone finished it!)
I'll take a look at that bug when I get a moment - I've got a rough idea what might be causing it, but I'm not going to have access to the source code until next week.
I honestly can’t believe this game is free and you won’t even let us pay if we wish. Amazing work on this! So much fun and polish, I love it! :)
There are only 2 tiny suggestions I have:
Can you show the total number of coins when the game is paused during a run? I found myself wondering how many more runs/coins I need to unlock the next extra. (Or maybe even give a little popup when a new extra is available)
can you allow fast forwarding dialog boxes with the A or B button?
I'll have a look at adding something into the pause screen... as an interim measure, uploaded an updated version that adds a running total to the Stage Cleared screen (which is the only point the total gets updated anyway) that should at least make that a little more visible mid-game (it also fixes an occasional crash-bug, so worth updating regardless!)
In terms of the dialogue text, altering the timing on that stuff is a little on the tricky side with the way it's hanging together. Allowing the opening sequence to change timing based on button presses opens up a whole bunch of additional worm-cans that I'd rather not have to try and tackle. You can skip the entire sequence by tapping A+B at the same time though.
Did you happen to catch what the reported error was? I've bleached my install and resideloaded it via the PD side using the version I uploaded and I'm not having any issues.
Ah, OK. Is this when you select the save data slot or when you are booting the game?
I have just uploaded a patched version which fixes a crash bug which can occur under some circumstances when you transition between the save select to the main menu. Not sure if this is the one you are encountering here or not, though.
Thanks for responding - I appreciate it, as I don't particularly want anyone to have a bad time with this.
That said - I have to admit I'm completely baffled by this one. There's not a huge difference between the games first boot and restarting it, mostly just the first time you start it creates a header file for each of the save slots, then checks for any completed stage files so that it can total up the number of collected coins. I'm guessing it's not going to be the 10 second "I think your game is stuck in a loop" Playdate OS crash.
Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit without having created a save file?
Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit immediately after entering your name (whilst the opening sequence is still playing), or is it only if you have played a stage or two first?
I've uploaded a second version of the game labelled as Debug above - if you have time (no pressure - don't really want to put anyone out) could you give that a try a tell me if it's still crashing and reporting an error or not? I've moved some of the initialisation code in the hopes that it may report a proper error message if things aren't being done at boot time.
If you want a Track and Field alike, may I point you in the direction of my previous game that this one is riffing off. That's waaaaaay closer than this one is - I kinda started this one by trying to think of a way I could reuse some of the assets from that game to make something else!
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I really enjoyed it, thanks for making it! Those last 10 levels were HARD....
also i love the game and watch mode its addicting :D
Thanks!
Yeah, those last few levels are pretty mean.
Finished. Loved the clapping to the beat in the outro haha. Amazing game. Loved the intro and outro animation.Can’t believe you made this free not even letting us pay. Thank u!!
+there’s a minor bug where u retry daily mode twice, next one goes to i think infinite mode
Thanks for the kind words (and genuinely appreciate hearing that someone finished it!)
I'll take a look at that bug when I get a moment - I've got a rough idea what might be causing it, but I'm not going to have access to the source code until next week.
For anyone looking back later, this is now fixed, and the oversight was even dumber than I thought it was.
Absolutely awesome visuals, a lot of content, fun gameplay. Recommended!
Thanks!
I honestly can’t believe this game is free and you won’t even let us pay if we wish. Amazing work on this! So much fun and polish, I love it! :)
There are only 2 tiny suggestions I have:
Hiya,
Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it!
I'll have a look at adding something into the pause screen... as an interim measure, uploaded an updated version that adds a running total to the Stage Cleared screen (which is the only point the total gets updated anyway) that should at least make that a little more visible mid-game (it also fixes an occasional crash-bug, so worth updating regardless!)
In terms of the dialogue text, altering the timing on that stuff is a little on the tricky side with the way it's hanging together. Allowing the opening sequence to change timing based on button presses opens up a whole bunch of additional worm-cans that I'd rather not have to try and tackle. You can skip the entire sequence by tapping A+B at the same time though.
Awesome, thanks for the quick update! :)
Crashes at startup
Did you happen to catch what the reported error was? I've bleached my install and resideloaded it via the PD side using the version I uploaded and I'm not having any issues.
No error messages. If I delete game data and restart it’s fine. It’s when I play again it crashes with newly created save data
Ah, OK. Is this when you select the save data slot or when you are booting the game?
I have just uploaded a patched version which fixes a crash bug which can occur under some circumstances when you transition between the save select to the main menu. Not sure if this is the one you are encountering here or not, though.
when booting. If I delete game data in settings and go back to game it starts from beginning ok until I leave game and comeback and it crashes.
Hiya,
Thanks for responding - I appreciate it, as I don't particularly want anyone to have a bad time with this.
That said - I have to admit I'm completely baffled by this one. There's not a huge difference between the games first boot and restarting it, mostly just the first time you start it creates a header file for each of the save slots, then checks for any completed stage files so that it can total up the number of collected coins. I'm guessing it's not going to be the 10 second "I think your game is stuck in a loop" Playdate OS crash.
Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit without having created a save file?
Does the game still crash when restarting if you exit immediately after entering your name (whilst the opening sequence is still playing), or is it only if you have played a stage or two first?
I've uploaded a second version of the game labelled as Debug above - if you have time (no pressure - don't really want to put anyone out) could you give that a try a tell me if it's still crashing and reporting an error or not? I've moved some of the initialisation code in the hopes that it may report a proper error message if things aren't being done at boot time.
Wow! This looks awesome! (Reminds me of an old arcade game I used to enjoy called Track & Field! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_%26_Field_(video_game)) Thanks for releasing it for free!
If you want a Track and Field alike, may I point you in the direction of my previous game that this one is riffing off. That's waaaaaay closer than this one is - I kinda started this one by trying to think of a way I could reuse some of the assets from that game to make something else!
Awesome! Thank you again!