Refresh rate?

Try the latest EXE (attachment in the first post) for new controls and possibly more speed ...

Are you going to port it to linux? If you would like to but dont have the resources yourself, ill do it for you. Dont tell me its closed source!

I meant this:

Simple moves! That is why you allow for the Mighty Stupid moves that may or may not have any value... Maybe you could add pointless easter-egg moves that have him sit down and sleep or something... That would be funny! Just make sure that you use the most random moves possible that could go underneath the 'Mighty Stupid' title, and that would be fun... Such thinks as picking up a gun and smacking people in the head with it instead of shooting them with it, or getting the super-hero ray from the boss guy and start shooting the enemies with it so they become harder to kill (which would be pointless, but funny nonetheless), or just start beating people over the head with it!

I'm dumb!! You could even have an alternate weapon like an algebra book that you start with that you can through at people, because, after all, you are the Mighty Stupid, what use do you have for books?

I didn't read all of the posts (barely any, just the main one).

I'll start with the two things I don't like.
I really don't like how he slides on the gound after you stop running. He does this even if you crouch The other thing is that I don't like how you cannot turn around if you continually punch.. If you've got a guy on either side of you, you've gotta kill one, pause, turn, kill the other.. instead of commense button mashing, kill, turn, kill, stop button mashing.

Other than those small points, I thought it was very good. I couldn't make it all that far, because I sorta suck at platformers, but what I saw was awesome. I like the AI of the enemies, too. All the animation - even with the 'crappy' programmers art (which I thought wasn't half bad), looked very good and was very smooth.

Great Jeorb! Can't wait to see it when it's released. I'm guessing you'll go shareware with it? Perhaps you already mentioned that above.

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Started reading from bottom to top, and saw this.

So everyone prefers the Megaman approach to running; no setting between dead stop and full throttle? Because I should warn you, there are enemies in the bonus level that track you by sound; if you move too fast, they'll rush you

Anyway, it's not something I thought was so bad. Anyone else really bothered by this?

Oh, absolutely true; it's something I'm fixing up right now. I haven't touched the player code in a while, so I'm cleaning it up right now (its crappiness kind of stung me when I added X-G's suggestion for punching when landing). But yes, I noticed this and it actually is already partly solved if you didn't notice

BTW, should I tell everyone the level select codes?

Actually, one of his old moves was using his cape as a "rat tail whip" I had a lot of moves and capes that gave you different abilities, but it's still not in character. He's supposed to be an idiot, and his moves are designed to look like he's just getting lucky hits I still haven't modeled a decent punch that fulfills that vision ...

Already mentioned. I could make them get confused if you jump over them ("what the heck?! I had him in my sights ...")

It's up in the air for now. I actually take back what I said about confusing them by jumping over them; got too many people bunny-hopping to the end of the level already And they already don't have a 100% chance of hitting you (very slow bullets) ...

Trueley awesome 23!
Very professional demo, I loved the polished platformer physics and fluid animation. I can see a lot of work was put into this.
Keep up the excellent work man.

You tapped 'R', didn't you?

Press Esc. The boss cutscene is the only one that can be skipped, actually ...

Is the land-and-punch timing better now, X-G?

Gnatinator & CGP: Thanks

downthrust.GIF?

Too hard. I'm going handdrawn

He won't have that many moves. Right now all I know for sure is the trip, punch (which will hit in both directions at once, because a spin is involved), and some sort of air attack. Basically, what's there now but without the combo Oh, and a straight-up headbutt attack (picture TMS doing a jack-in-the-box impression). Haven't thought of too many more yet ...

Nope, he's an idiot

Yup Revealing his backstory would be major plot spoilage though ...