Rocambolli

This is my first platformer. An entry to Ludum-Dare 37.

You can play the original here on itch.io.

Update: I created a release, and there is for download the original codebase. I am updating the code here to give support to for mobile 14/12/2016!

new version can be played here

Click on the screen when the game loads in itch, and then use Arrow keys and/or WASD keys to move the character.

You can also use a Xbox360 gamepad, using left stick to move and A or B to jump - it must be plugged in the USB as player1.

Gameplay Video on Youtube

Code

I am using my own codes below:

• png-font : for pixel font drawing.

• color.js : tiny 1.47kb js for color normalization.

I am also using Howler for sound:

• howler.js : a lib for making audio on webpages easier.

Assets

For generating sound assets I used the following:

• BFXR : a sound creation tool that runs in browser.

• BU's Autotracker : a python script that creates music by itself.

My tools for editing things:

• Gedit : All the JS code was written in Gedit.

• Aseprite : Aseprite is the nicest tool ever written for drawing images. I used Aseprite for drawing - if you look my code you will see how drawing is everything in this game.

• Audacity : Audacity is how I edited and fine tuned the audio.

• Schism Tracker : I used this only to convert .it from BU's Autotracker to .wav.

Thought process

This is my first entry to Ludum Dare and my first finished game alone. I decided to do a genre that's well known (platformers) but that I had never done.

The theme announced was ONE ROOM, and I thought on having all the game in a single screen, and the idea was that you could see all the game from first screen, in layers.

I decided on JS because it is the only thing I sorta know.

Then I decided to encode every information on the levels on the images, because I needed a fast way to create levels.

And the code is a tangle of mess, I threw every coding practice I learned to be able to finish the code in 25h - since I had other things to do this weekend.

And that's it. If you like, please star.

Questions, you can find me on Twitter @eri0o.