FPS: Constant 60. Sometimes it jumped a whole frame per second, but that's about it.

I got to the desert stage, and got pretty far; to the place after those stupid guysers. After a few attempts at getting that far I just decided I didn't feel like trying anymore because it was too annoying. Those bats are extremely a pain in the butt, and the guysers only give you about half a second to pass through before they start gushing stuff. It's also really hard to judge when you can go through, because smoke and stuff is always spewing through. Good effects and everything; I love it; just a little hard to discern what's going on the first few times through.

I did happen to find a bug, that is quite easily reproducible as well. It can be done anywhere. I call it the moonwalk. Jump up in the air, and just before you reach the ground again, hit the opposite direction, make the guy do the air-kick, then change direction to the direction you were walking in. This results in the character moving in one direction, but facing the other. Moonwalk It was quite funny the first time it happened. I sat around trying to reproduce it a bunch of times, then finally I did. While moonwalking, if you jump; the effect is remedied.

It's a little hard to pull off, but I think you'll be able to do it.

I remember I did the moonwalk

I should use the level skip code next time I play... that first level is not too easy... actually, the whole damn game is hard as hell!

Can you kill the flying bat guys? I wasn't able to hit them; but then again maybe I was too late pulling off the jumping kick.

Anyways, to address some more of the cool features of the game; the desert level is really nice. The first two levels kind of left me hoping for more. I mean, the enemies were really reactive and all, but it seemed a little repetitive. The desert level changed all that.

I love how those plants shoot out the big spheres that explode if you touch them. I love seeing them produce the things and then watching those guys have a life of their own. It's like one of those enemies that's a single enemy, but then it spores off into more than one. Really cool. You should make the "hive" destroyable though; so you don't have to keep killing the big round things. Either way, I found it impressive. I made an enemy like that in my sidescroller, although it was a little different

The mole guys are asbolutely cool. I like how they jump up at you and then look around, and if they don't see anything, they just go back in the ground. What would be cool is to see them walk around a little, and then burrow into a new spot

Another thing that would be cool is enemies that take damage from the surrounding landscape; ie the skerows get damaged when they walk into the spines coming out of the ground. That would be nice: those things are so annoying; but I finally got the knack of how to kill them.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention how it is very cool that the ice just freezes you and drops you really fast. What would be cooler is that if you get frozen from a high level, and drop too far; the ice should shatter when you hit the ground, dealing even more damage than just being frozen. Probably something that would make the players get rather aggrivated, but it seems like fun

Definitely try to model most of your levels after the desert one. That one requires much more concentration than just running and jumping over everything in order to beat it.

Oh; I thought of a cool idea for the skerows, too (the little black guys.) I noticed there's some up-sidedown ones that shoot spines at you. Any chance of making a type that shoots spines, and once you walk over it; it will fall and try and land on you, then it will turn to one of the ground skerows. That would be neato. Or maybe even skerows that just jump to a ceiling fixture and turn into the spine shooting ones. Maybe it's just too much work; but I'm just throwing ideas around.

Only when they charge. I find the punch easier since they fly straight at you The timing is tricky, but they have an extra-large bounding box for detecting the punch (otherwise it's nearly impossible) so you'll get it

Yeah, that's why I wanted it in there

Not really an issue in the current level. And I dislike the idea of the player clearing a level of enemies; makes life too easy if they plan on backtracking

Hmmm. Not bad BTW, when they run, they're supposed to be blindly swinging their claws. But I got lazy with the art

There are a lot of ideas I've had for the engine which I've had to drop if I have any hope of ever finishing it. And that's one of them. I may allow the odd case of this (maybe you'll have to lure otherwise indestructible enemies into something that can kill it to get past them) but no plans right now.

Yup, and the idea that you can keep taking damage from enemies (the bats beat you senseless while your frozen) and button-mashing gets you out quicker, and a shower of cool particles. It would be nice; just couldn't do it for this demo. The charred damage will also make your character smoke a bit

Yes, the first level is a bit dry, just because Suburbia is like that Later levels give me lots of freedom terrain-wise, so you get your wish.

Cool ideas with the skerows, btw. Jumping back up to the roof; I'll think about that

Yeah; just like them

BTW, thoughts on any of the bosses/minibosses? I assume everyone can finish the thing with the health cheat now.

PH: Yeah, I just keep updating that zip.

I have plans for checkpoints. If there were one in Level 4-1, it would be just before the waterfall. Of course, then you can't get the extra man anymore ...

F2/F3/F4 for level select, H for health refill. Go play the bonus level; it's more fun

Why, tha ... HEY!

tried it, works fine for me. I like your attention to detail, all the animations with lots of frames. I can see in the dat file that you have 4 frames for jumping up and 4 for falling down, wow!

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few minutes ago,your Game(1.24MB) hang my computer..no response..have to reboot..

This might have been said already, but the two enemies gaurding the first extra life pickup you see, I jumped into them, then died, and it showed a VERY slow animation of my falling over dead while they kept running around punching me, and I just kept falling through the floor a few pixels till I left the game. Other than that, pretty good.

The game supports gamepads now. There's no customization at the moment, but of course there will be in the final game.

X-G: Picture the 'now' in italics Yes, it always did ...

It doesn't like my gravis elimantor shock joypad..

exjoy.c (in the allegro examples folder) correctly detects it and shows the analogue X & Y values after I press A for analogue mode..

(Cut & Paste time Chris!!)