Tower Jack (An Infinite Tower Game)

[sphyrth]

https://sphyrth.itch.io/towerjack

I'm just trying out this "itch.io" thing since I've been living in a cave for the past 5 years.

[MadByte]

Must be a cozy cave to stay 5 years in it

Cool game, feels very retro. My first thought was "Lode Runner" because of the breaking through the platforms
I think the progression at the beginning is way to slow though, it could take up pace much faster imo.
Maybe adding some more gameplay elements like running bots or mines or whatever as the level progresses could make it even more fun to play.

I had a weird flickering issue with the scaling in fullscreen:


Looks kinda like a driver related issue that I've never seen before (I'm using Manjaro Linux), But maybe you have another idea why this happens.

[sphyrth]

I had a weird flickering issue with the scaling in fullscreen:

Gonna fix my itch.io later, but for now. I made a quick patch below (removed flickering and gave a little bit faster progession).

Project Tower Jack.love

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I think my mistake was that I put love.graphics.setScissor() inside love.draw()... if that's it then, I didn't know you can just call it once. I hope that fixes the problem.

Thanks for the feedback! I made it as casual as possible, even to the point of reducing the max speed just below my skill level. But, yes, your suggestions (other game elements) were an idea... even a story mode and selectable characters. But I think I should save that for 2.0 or something.

[MadByte]

Flickering is still present for me. I really think this might be a issue with my mesa drivers.. I've seen something similar while using the latest dev drivers at some point, but never in a löve game before and also never while using the stable release versions. Maybe I'll take a look into it later.

[sphyrth]

Because my friends made fun of my character's head bumping, I ended up putting 2 new enemies as well.
https://sphyrth.itch.io/towerjack/devlo ... ew-enemies

[MadByte]

Great update, the new enemies do add a welcome level of difficulty to the game.
btw. I found that setScissor indeed is the problem with the flickering on linux. Commenting out line 23 in "screen.lua" does "fix" the flickering for me.