Shadow of Rummaroe
ACHTUNG! this is just a prototype I made to test making a platformer engine, there is not much of a game here, but I do want to remake it some time into an actual game
synopsis (has nothing to do with the actual freaking prototype): one day you left the house and were sucked into a vortex of chaos on your way to the conbini. you wake up in the land of Rummaroe, where deadly spikes and monsters roam free. you have "protagonist" hairstyle, so you gotta do something??
CONTROLS
- left/right arrow or a/d to walk left/right
- up/w/x/space to jump
- down/s to drop through platform
- m to enable debug mode
REVIEWS
"What can I say about game? It is playable so..." - Yevhen
"Ach, ok" - Hubert
CREDITS
tile art and sprites:
music:
- "Another August" by The Cynic Project / cynicmusic.com / pixelsphere.org https://opengameart.org/content/another-august
- "I Want to go Home" by Eldritch Grim, Rafael Krux https://opengameart.org/content/i-want-to-go-home
sound effects:
- by SubspaceAudio https://opengameart.org/content/512-sound-effects-8-bit-style
- by Kronbits https://kronbits.itch.io/freesfx
- by AntumDeluge https://opengameart.org/content/pencil-sounds
Development log
- v0.6.261 days ago
Comments
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Completely stuck in the second level xD Really pretty tiling though, and I like the mood and soundwork and feel.
ah i wonder what you mean exactly, not sure where you are. bouncing off of enemies is higher than your normal jump so you should be able to get anywhere by doing that.
anyhow youre not missing much, this is just a prototype. it doesnt really have progression or win state, i just made it as experiment to see if i can reuse my top-down engine for a platformer game, not much to see here
i wanna redo it when i have a dumb enough idea for an actual platformer, for now its just this
thanks for playing tho, appreciate it!
ah you know what actually im kind of dumb for not writing explicitly that his is a prototype, i just added that in the metadata before which no one reads probably
added some info on the page now that this is just a garbo protytype, thanks again!!
Thanks for clarifying, definitely not garbo though! This is a really cute cool language, if ya ever return to it I'd be interested in seeing what you do with it 😌
why is the game so fast
hmm the game has a fixed-time loop, what does the green counter say when you run the game? it should stay at around 60fps, if not then i messed something up ;))
Yeah it says 200
nice
im gonna maybe try to fix that later and hard cap the fps at 60
i did some changes to game loop that should cap the update rate of the game and slow it down
i tried to test on a pc with better specs but on every machine i always get only 60 fps, so maybe this will work for you and maybe not ;))))
it's normal speed now!
btw, can i ask what engine/framework did you make the game in
oh wow it worked huh
the game is made in my own engine that i built with javascript
you can see the source code here if youre curious https://github.com/pebonius/shadow-of-rummaroe
It is the reason why games usually try to split rendering/physics loops. I run currently compilation of Godot so my machine entirely is slow... Fps often dropped to 15-30 but sometimes jumped to 100, 200, 500 (exactly these even numbers) Why? You are a developer and should know better ;)
EDIT: by just standing I saw numbers 90 and 167 very often so it seems it isn't fixed
the frame rate still varies, it’s only the update loop that’s throttled :)
so even if fps goes up to 100-200 and beyond the update rate is capped at ~60 so the game should not become insanely fast
then again i dont know if this will work reliably for everyone, for now im not able to test it
on the other hand if you’re running some crazy processes at the same time and frame rate drops to 30 and below, you will see a slowdown, since update rate will slow as well
maybe it would make sense to make update rate completely independent from frame rate, so that if frame rate goes really low, there wont be a visible slowdown in the game, only rendering frames will be dropped
but i expect for most people this will work at 60fps and above, i mean im testing this on a literal rock and i have 60fps
The cave with spikes is intentionally annoying?
right now the spike cave is only possible to go through if you glitch through a wall slightly. i will be fixing that glitch and editing this map to be less stupid
fixed that now it should be less stupid