Tape Escape

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you have been having fun with the game!

It is a lot of fun to speed run, lots of little skips scattered through the levels. You can get moving pretty quick haha.

I wish I had more time to build out levels for the game jam. I had a few features implemented that unfortunately didnt make it into the levels!

Thanks for playing! I did try out the last miner game, I couldn't really get past the tutorial part though? The hold up and z attack didn't seem to work and I died to the spike like 10 times :(

Thanks for playing! Unfortunately I just ran out of time to design more levels to incorporate the other mechanics. I wanted to ramp up the mechanics/difficulty smoothly, but designing and detailing levels took a lot more time than I anticipated. I thought I could get 2 more levels done, but due to IRL time constraints I had to prioritize other parts of the project to get it to a finished state.

Thanks for playing!

My thought behind using the mouse wheel was to try and emulate using a tape measure in real life haha and when I put it in it just had a weird but interesting feel to it. You can also get pretty quick with the mechanic and zoom around a bit which is fun.

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah unfortunatly I ran out of time to build out more levels. I had more mechanics implemented but I didnt get them in the level design. There are a ton of ways to go with the idea if we were to continue working on it though.

Thanks! I was hoping people wouldn't skip through the intro screen and hit play right away just because the lobby music takes a few bars to evolve. Starts out a little dopey, then turns into a cool reggae vibe, then the melody kicks in for a cool vibe.

I wanted to do a little bit more with the title screen. We were thinking of animating the logo so the tape measure would pop up and hook onto the logo and shake. I was also thinking of adding the main character eating his lunch looking over the cityscape on the end of a cross bar with the clouds slowly moving. It was very low on the priority list though :P

For the highlight, thanks for the feedback! It's a simple fix, it's just rectangles colliding with their corners which is not very precise. A little tweaking and I can get the visuals to match up perfectly.

Im just speculating, but you might have been crushed by the elevator. The player dies if pushed into solid objects. The effect isnt too obvious because I didnt make any animation or fx for being crushed.

Thanks for playing! We have a ton of ideas to take the game further, so potentially we will make a post jam release. Not 100% sure yet tho.

Thanks! I wish we had more time for the jam, but alas there is never enough time in a jam :P we might continue work on the project? Not really sure yet. There is definitely a lot we could do with the idea though!

Thank you for the feedback! I had mechanics implemented in the game for a few more uses (used slightly in the 2nd tutorial level, nudging cones/pressing switches). Because of the way I ramped the level difficulty, I was planning to introduce addition features in the next levels. Unfortunately, I only had a couple hours to work on the project the last day which I dedicated to finishing things I felt were needed to be a complete game. Game intro/story intro/story end/tutorial/bug fixing/end game screen/sound design to name a few! I thought I would be able to pump out 2 more levels but that proved to be one of the tasks that was taking the longest. I was programmer/level designer/sound designer on this project so ultimately I came a bit short on delivering on the theme. However, I think we made a really fun game :D! A few of my friends have been speed running it, but I still hold the record :] 1:20.47 from pressing the play button to completing the game.

Thanks! I spent a lot of time getting the feel and sounds right :D glad you enjoyed playing!

Thanks for the feedback! On the first point, I intentionally added the 1 block ledge on the first tutorial level as a hint that the player can jump, we also listed the controls in the description.

I wanted the controls to match up with the mechanic. It's intentionally clunky (until you get good with it) and wanted to give the feel of actually extending/retracting the measuring tape. In real life using a measuring tape can be bit awkward to use, so I felt it was appropriate. Half of the challenge is getting a hang of the controls. I will say though, after a bit of practice I am blazing through the levels and chaining grapples together zooming all over. There is a trick to timing your jump after grappling to keep up momentum.

On the third point, I agree. It's not super clear where you can grapple to on ledges. A visual hint would be a good addition. It's based off a grapple point object that I manually placed on corners of ledges.

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing! This is was our first gm48 jam, 2nd jam with the same group. About the GUI, what is your screen resolution? Were the buttons too big for your screen or what specific issues were you having?

Awesome :D! I probably spent a little too much time zipping around during the jam as I was building levels lol. Turned out to be a pretty fun mechanic. It took a while to tune it in just right, had to fix a few bugs that ate up some time. Worth it though!

Thanks for playing! I had more uses planned and implemented! However, due to some IRL time constraints I ran out of time to build out the levels how I envisioned. I wanted the difficulty ramp to be smooth because I assumed it would take players a bit to get acclimated the main mechanic. I thought I could get two more levels done, in which to implement a few specific uses. For example, nudging cones onto switches, pressing wall buttons from afar or while jumping, activating conveyor belts and pushing cones onto them to trigger other things etc. Ultimately, my time crunch came down to either making more levels or making a cohesive game. If only I had more time!

Thanks! I wish we had more time to build levels for the jam and take the mechanic further. Ideally the game should be played with a mouse with a mouse wheel. But I wanted to at least make it somewhat accessible for laptop users, so I included the key binds. Half the fun of the game is getting used to the mechanic and flinging yourself off ledges though :D