Star Runner (GMTK Jam 2024)
Star Runner is a SEGA Master System inspired action-puzzle game made in 4 days for the GMTK Jam 2024.
Gameplay
- The aim of the game is to flip all red tiles (small and large) to blue circle tiles by stepping on them. There are 20 stages to complete.
- You can change the size of your character by standing on any scaling tile (orange with a yellow triangle) and pressing Button 1.
- Activating any scaling tile will activate them all. If an enemy is stood on a scaler tile when it activates the enemy is temporarily removed from the game.
- Enemies will ignore you when you're small but the projectile fireball can hit you when big or small.
- Chaining tiles can gain you bonus points at the end of a round. Chaining can be done by flipping red tiles to blue quickly one after another. The bar at the top indicates the time remaining before the chain resets. The current chain is in the top right.
Controls
- Up/Down/Left/Right: Move
- Button 1: Activate scaler tile, menu confirm
- Start Button: Pause
Control Bindings
- WASD keys, Arrow keys, or gamepad D-pad to move.
- Letter O key or Button A (XBox pad) is button 1
- Enter key or Start Button (Xbox pad) is Start Button.
Credits
Graphics and design:
Music by POLARIA POYON:
https://polariapoyon.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/polariapoyon
Fonts by Damien Guard:
Comments
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I couldn't figure out what button 1 is on keyboard and mouse was. I like the aesthetics though.
I found out that Button 1 on a keyboard is the O (not zero) key, not sure why the online SMS emulator uses that rather than z & x.
It's not an SMS emulator, I chose the letter O as it was in the middle of WASD and arrow keys so both types of movement scheme could use letter O key easily.
In hindsight a simpler option like spacebar would've been better.
Oh? It's not a SMS emulator? It looks like a SMS game, unless this is a Godot game running in HTML5. If so that's cool, but I would love to see this as a SMS ROM.
Yes, this is an HTML5 game but I'm planning to make an SMS version in the future!
Oh awesome! I can't wait! I'll be honest and say that when I first saw this I thought it was a SMS ROM. No wonder there isn't a download button yet! lol!
A very well-made, fun, and beautiful game inspired by the Sega Master System. Everything is absolutely stunning, from the puzzles and gameplay to the art and music! This should definitely be on your radar for playing and having fun. Congrats, helpcomputer. Always with good quality games!
Amazing aesthetics, love to see something heavily inspired by classics (reminds me of Annalynn, a recent throwback like this). Congratulations on the awesome submission!
Nice. Reminds me of my 8-bit micro computer days.
I'm diggin the art style and music.
Thank you!
:)
Nice. How many levels does it have?
Thanks! It has 20.