Hamster's Wheel, game dev part 2

Posted by Onyx on Aug. 29, 2006, 12:35 p.m.

After his yesterday's vacation hamster's back!

Things changed/added

-added spikes

-added 2 types of crates

-added fps counter to the HUD (thanks marbs ;) )

He didn't have much luck today either: he learnt the concept of death. Which means I added some spikes. In lack of sprites I covered up his death behind explosion effect. Ugly, but does the trick.

Now, the real news are crates. There are two types: metal and wood.

Metal crate is pretty simple: approach it from any side and press ctrl to push it.

Now, wooden crate is a bit more compilcated: in a good way! Same thing here, push it with ctrl. BUT, try to push it all the way to the wall or another crate and then push it again. It will jump up in the air! Now, if you hurry up and get under it before it falls it will stay on top of hamster's wheel. Now you can move and carry it around! When you want to drop it just face direction you want to drop it in and press ctrl again. Cool, huh? Oh, and if you push it on the spikes… bye, bye little cratey.

You can't jump while carrinig crates, but this is intentional. Crates aren't affected by gravity change because I was too lazy to add it today. Will be fixed.

Please, report any bugs.

Also, the crates were drawn by me, and I'm pretty proud of them as I suck in pixel art. Like them?

Oh, yeah the download link. Same as before, but here it is again: DOWNLOAD

Enjoy ;)

EDIT: and that's what happens when you make a quick fix and don't test it. I just found out that dropping crates from the wheel acctualy doesn't work as it should. So, yeah, the fixed version will be up tommorow and I'll add some new things too.

Comments

Kaz 18 years, 3 months ago

Wonder what hamsters taste like…

sinkhead 18 years, 3 months ago

Cool! It would be mice if you could make it so some crates were affected when you rotated the view, and some weren't, so you could leave steps for when you rotate.

Cesar 18 years, 3 months ago

hamsters taste like chiken at chik-fil-a