Invertigo

Game created for Newbies Game Jam 2023

Theme: Light is the enemy

About the game:

The world is consumed by the twilight sun and its spawns. Run while you can and don't get too close or risk beeing burned by the searing light. 

Unlike in most platformers you can not jump, but have to invert gravity itself to dodge incoming obstacles. In the end everything will be burned, as the game will get harder with time, but feel free to post your Highscore (although scaling might change with versions).

State of development:

There are still many things that can be improved, but since I start running out of available time this is  the final stage for now. I joined to jam because I wanted to improve my python skills and especially learn more about pygame. It was definitly quite a journey and the code got a little messy at the end, but it was still a lot of fun and let to the creation of my very first game that is in a  playable state!

Regarding the additional challenges of the game jam I'd say I managed to incorporate the "toggle" and the "float/fly" very well. The "pure skill" part was a challenge, but I think I managed the add enough rules to the level generation that runs should be more consistent, obstacles always passable and therefore also achieved this challenge.

Feel free to modify and use the python code or chunks of it. Its currently lacking consistency and thorough annotation, but I might come back to that. For now I'm out of time. My version of python is 3.9.13 with pygame version 2.3.0, but its not using anything especially fancy, so it will probably also run on older versions of both.

Sources:

- character sprites: 16x16 Industrial Tileset by 0x72 (https://0x72.itch.io/16x16-industrial-tileset)

- floors and blocks: 1-bit patterns and tiles by PiiiXL (https://piiixl.itch.io/1-bit-patterns-and-tiles)

- music: FREE Music Loop Bundle by Tallbeard Studios (https://tallbeard.itch.io/music-loop-bundle) - Ludum Dare 38 - Track 4

- font: Mister 16 Pixel by unknown (https://www.dafont.com/mister-pixel-16.font)

- lights and particles: myself