What do you think of this 2D platformer? Would you play it?

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#8

Theres some minor jitteriness with the camera, if you’re using the renderstepped/heartbeat event to update the camera, consider changing to BindToRenderStep method. You might also benefit from having the camera not follow the player as closely when jumping, you can notice when you jump over the small platforms, the actual platforms almost dissapear from your camera’s view.

Cameras are really hard to get just right in 2D, but they go a long way in how the game feels overall!
I’d check out Crash Bandicoot from the original ps1, and then it’s remasters. There are some minor lessons in there that would be really useful!

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#9

Looks good and interesting. If you create more things, I’ll bet you’d have a great game on your hands.

Just some suggestions.

  • How about adding a custom, cartoony grass texture for the grass platforms? I think that’ll really spruce up the world.
  • How about the same for the dirt?
  • (Not sure if you’re planning on doing this) You can make different world with different environments and stuff.
  • You know what would be epic? Lore. If you add a story to the game, with cutscenes and all that, the game will be very exciting.
  • With the clouds as part of the skybox, it doesn’t really look like you’re moving. Why not add some huge parts that look like clouds (white and transparent) far away from the level, so they look like part of the world.
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#10

Thanks for the feedback! Since there’s no release date for this game yet, I’ll add some textures and maybe a bit of lore. And I’ll fix the sky. Cutscenes may be a bit complicated due to the camera being a custom camera and not the default camera. But I’ll try.

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#11

So, I found a smoother camera made by Roblox that I’m gonna mess around with to get what I want. I can’t do what the Crash Bandicoot game did. This is because there are things that you have to climb up. And I don’t want the camera to stay on one level so yeah.

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#12

I would also recommend making it so that you have to do the levels in order but you can go back to levels.

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#13

I could try to do it using data stores.

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#14

2D platformers are cool but you need some interesting mechanics if you wanna reach out to people.

Mario and Sonic both had mechanics where you could build up speed by running this made the games a lot more fun to play as it introduced a risk reward system will you risk going fast and have a chance of dying to get a better time or will you just take it slow.

And both of those characters had there own move sets like the spin dash, and homing attack for sonic and the wall jump for Mario.

Not saying that you should add these just add something that makes the game different from the other 2000 obbies out there besides being 2D

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#15

reminds me of the old flash games I use to play as a kid, the nostalgia!
good job man, i think I’m a fan! :joy:

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#16

Crash did that with 2D levels as well, although slightly restricted in how it was handled;

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#17

Really cool 2D platformer but it would be cool if you had some jump sound effects or even a custom animation instead of using the old animation

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#18

Looks cool! Roblox doesn’t have enough platformer style games. Nice feature with the reset block button, most people wouldn’t even think about the block getting stuck, and normally you have to reset the whole level. Nice work, keep it up. :slight_smile:

#19

I am actually taking inspiration from old flash games like red ball, etc.

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#20

I actually released a teaser version of this where you have to push the block but I didn’t add the reset button so you would have to restart the game.

#21

I can imagine myself playing Mario Bros on my Nintendo right now. It reminds me of the good ol’ classics.

I would suggest, adding some earning system, like the player would be able to collect coins, then buy powerups and stuff…

Also, this looks like as if its a private server, make another version, a online public version, then you can make it as if who has raced to the end.

#22

I am actually gonna make a level where it take inspiration from the old mario games.

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#23

That will come in later updates after the game is finished. But we’ll see. And also, at the end of each level, you actually get some currency.

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#24

interesting! I hope to see more of these on the platform! there isn’t really a lot of 2D games on Roblox, seeing someone’s progress on a 2D games for Roblox always takes my interest,especially flash games remakes.
Please, keep it up! who knows? maybe its gonna be the next new genre for Roblox!

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#25

Possibly. And there’s not gonna be much monetization cause I don’t see the point for it.

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#26

Looks really cool, will definitely play. Although, i think you should add a coin system and a shop. And, add some like kind of a secret level where there’s a ton of coins, like a coin rush or something. Overall, looks pretty good.

#27

I would love to play it, even more if it had some better GUI and higher quality backgrounds like the blue sky (It’s a bit blurry).

Hope to see it when it releases!

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