Jumpstick Robo
A downloadable game for Windows
A one button platformer created for the 2020 one button game jam.
You can play using space, enter or a mouse button.
In the menu: short press to change between options and hold to select.
In the game: press to jump, press again to double jump backwards. You can also wall jump.
I've decided to try a new programming language (Python) and engine (Pyxel Engine) for this jam, and unfortunately I had trouble making builds for platforms other than Windows. But if you are on Windows, it's just one very small executable.
Warning: windows might scream that there's a trojan in the executable. It's a false alarm, every piece of software I used to develop the game is well known and open source (Python3, Pyinstaller, Pyxel Engine). But if you're afraid, or feeling adventurous, the source is freely available here:
https://github.com/matzieq/jumpy_robot
It's super easy to run it, just follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
And then run jumpy_robot.py like any other python3 script.
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Install instructions
Just download and start the exe. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Hiya! I'll be playing Jumpstick Robo tomorrow on stream along with several other games from the 1-Button Jam at 3:30pm EST. I'll be talking about any interesting design decisions as I play, and suggesting improvements if any come to mind. Please feel free to join me live, it'll be extra fun to chat together about your game while playing it :)
Hi! Thanks! Will the stream be available afterwards to watch? It'll be quite late in the evening in my time zone, and I have a very small child, so I need all the sleep I can get :)
Yes, there will be a video of it on my channel afterwards, no worries :)
You take care of that small child!
...I'll try to be there, however, if only for a short time
Avast has detected as a Win64:Trojan.
Yes, I know. But it's a false positive. The game uses Python 3.9, SDL2, Pyxel and pyinstaller, all tech used is open source, there's no way there's a real virus. If it's any consolation, the machine on which I built it myself is also suspicious of it :) I posted a link to source code, it's super easy to run it this way as well (you just install python 3, then Pyxel, and then run the main script).