Tobe's Vertical Adventure

The game is a platformer set for Xbox Live Indie Games, a simple platformer with a simple twist (it should be obvious enough from the clip :)

In the game, player will face some retro platform puzzles similar to those you see in mario, sonic, megaman, etc... except that the player have a few different "moves", like rolling, wall run, wall jump, etc. There's also 2 items (rope and balloon), both to help him reach odd places in the game.

The game will be completed, hopfully by the end of the month, so for everyone looking at this, help me pimp this game!

Oh, and btw, the video was captured with a cranky software(hence the frame rate), so if anyone knows a better one, do recommend.

And if you like the game, you might be interested to see more of what I do at rayteoactive.wordpress.com

You know you want to ;)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Indie game
• XNA
• Xbox
• 360
• retro
• pixel
• platformer

[rayteoactive]

eldichosonick : Thanks! I hope you gonna like the game play too!

tslv : Yea, I was referencing to Mario and especially Sonic. The music and graphic influence are the most obvious, I guess.

maelstromIV: heh... I'd take that as a compliment :) I've was playing seplunky the whole time, but its gonna be a very different experience.

Glad to know that we've hit 2000views - You guys make me a happier man

[rayteoactive]

Well, we've been working really hard on this, losing hair and all, so thanks everyone for all the love ;)

Kaelan0 : someone else mentioned Fraps too, so I gonna try that out too. We spend alot of time on the visual, the current frame rate is a shame

HyperDuckMusic: Thanks! Good to know I have 1 potential sales ;)

[rayteoactive]

Yea, I was hoping to have grabbing and stuff, much earlier in the designing stage, but we felt it was a bit too much work at the time.

We'll probably add some animation for that though. Thanks for point it out :)

[krystalfox007]

Wow. Very professional looking. Well done

[Custom09]

Great game and perfectly priced! Bought it today.

[Krim123]

I agree about the treasure chests, it's too slow.  When they clack all those extra times it seems more like a bug than a feature.

[Rynen10K]

At first, I was thinking "Spelunky", but as soon as the screen wrap happened, now all I can think is "Kid Icarus" :)

My only beef is some of the pacing - the balloon descent intro is painfully slow. If that's going to happen every level, or worse, every time the player dies, it's going to get irritating real quick. Same deal with the treasure chests. It looks weird to see them clack around 20 times before they finally open.

Other than that, looks awesome. Keep it up! :D

[maelstromIV]

Sorta reminds me of an easier version of spelunker. Looking good.

[tslv]

The gameplay is gud indeed. Feel like a little prince of persia + mario and sonic, graphic can accept, make me remember some game on gameboy advance...and music is 16 bit game

[eldichosonick]

Amazing...

Another buyer here anxiously waiting for the release of the game.

There should be more games like yours, pretty graphics and animation; and gameplay I hope! :)

[HyperDuckMusic]

Really like this, and will buy it once it's released. Great work all of you so far, musics great, graphics are great, and everything in between and under the hood (thought I can't see it) seems to be working in your favour :) So with all those compliments in place, I will not subscribe to your brain!

Nice job my friend.