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[kouky]

I've been working on Jump To Moon, a game with a similar gameplay to the popular iPhone game Doodle Jump.
Your lil' cosmonaut jumps from platforms to platform while you tilt the Caanoo to give him a general direction.

The goal is the reach the moon...

Few WIP screen shots:



Final release coming soon

[u9i]

This looks very awesome! Is it the first homebrew to use the accelerometer?

I hope i will get my caanoo back from GPH before

[Thorax]

it's like icy tower with g-sensor? aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeesoooooooooommmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee

[traylorpark]

Oooh! psyched to play this!

[crow_riot]

aah, i've been waiting to see progress on this! looks nice! keep it coming

[kouky]

The game is mostly done, I'm now looking for ideas to make it more exciting to play...

[joyrider]

The game is mostly done, I'm now looking for ideas to make it more exciting to play...

Hey kouky, i haven't played the game yet so i don't know what you already had implemented, but i do own an android phone, there's a game on there named "abduction" see you tube video here :

It might give you a few idea's to add to your game, from my head these are things they added :

- bomb packages dropping from the sky which you can't thouch (you can use a variation on this for your theme like comets or something)
- Breakable platforms, like platforms you can only touch once or two / three times ...
- super jumps or something along those lines, like take a certain item and you can then jump higher or further
- Collecting items like each level has a star on a difficult place to capture and you need to collect those for some purpose (unlock new levels ???)
- the android game also let you buy certain items to "dress" your character (in the android game you have a cow and you can "dress" it with diffrent kind of hats etc) (= unlockables)
- i'm sure you could invent many other things when it comes to power ups that either affect you in a positive way or negative way...

but as i said i don't know what is implemented already

[traylorpark]

You could always put up an alpha/beta demo and field the community for ideas!

[SiENcE]

Nice. I'd like to play it.

[kouky]

Thank you for the input Joyrider,

I will add falling meteors!

Other suggestions such as special platform & speed bonus are already in.

[monstercameron]

My link
watch my one handed play thru!

[BAFelton]

What's up ? We're waiting for this great game

[BAFelton]

Cool ! http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/caanoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,628

[kouky]

Yeah, GPH uploaded it on their website a bit earlier than expected!

Didn't had time to prepare a public announcement...

I've now started a new topic to present the game:
http://www.gp32x.com...mp-to-the-moon/

[traylorpark]

Hey, just finally played your game! I had a load of fun!
Very good design overall ... is the the first portrait homebrew game?

I would love to see this game taken further with power ups and mechanics that build on what you have created.