Sir Boingers and the Quest for Cupcakes (and Justice)
From Spheriki
Recently, I've picked up one of my projects again: Sir Boingers and the Quest for Cupcakes (and Justice). It's about a knight who has to go and collect cupcakes on his never-stopping bouncy bird. It's supposed to be an arcadey NES-difficulty platforming experience.
Now, this was already a complete game (more or less; see Original version). It was made for Radnen's for-fun retro game competition back in 2010, and now I'm going back to vastly improve it and basically make it into a much better, much fuller game. This will mean a ton of new and improved stuff.
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Downloads
Since I like getting feedback, I'll occasionally upload a new alpha version as I develop the game. It can be found here:
Download alpha (Sphere 1.5 included)
^ Note that this is not the final release. A ton of stuff will be added and updated, as indicated above. ^
Screenshots
I have an image album on Google+ dedicated to the game. New pics added as I work on it.
https://plus.google.com/photos/104685542770302539616/albums/5724558007974856929
Features
- More music, better graphics.
- A story mode, with entertaining pictures.
- More and better levels (around 40 for the story mode)
- Extra levelsets included: easy, challenge, old (the wholly unbalanced levels from 1.0 :D)
- You can make levelsets fairly easily with Sphere's map editor. Also supports stories.
- I got rid of the lives system, so you get infinite chances.
- Several enemies, hazards and bosses (with some AI), you will be able to defend yourself against them (probably with throwing daggers or similar).
- Save game progress so you can continue later on.
- Save best levelset times, least deaths, largest amount of cupcakes collected on a high score board. (Possibly online; not sure yet). Score boards separated for each levelset.
- A settings menu (disable sound and music, change keyboard/gamepad mappings)
Original version
This game was an entry made for the Sphere Retro Game competition, held April-May 2010 by Radnen on the Spherical forums. Its goal was to feel like an old, challenging game, much like those you can find on old consoles like the NES.
Story
This game is not much story-driven. You are Sir Boingers, a noble knight with his trusty jumpbird, on a Quest to retrieve cupcakes from the land known as Perilterria (or the Dangerzone). That's pretty much it.
Game features
- Fun and challenging. The controls and levels are easy to get the hang of but difficult to master.
- 8-bit style. The game has a distinct retro feeling to it, from graphics to gameplay, sound and music.
- 12 action-packed levels. Not much for the first release, but just try beating this game! But more importantly, there’s…
- Extendability. You are able to create, play and share your own level sets. They’ll appear right in the game’s menu, and if you send them to us we’ll feature them right here!
- Joystick compatible. Play with a keyboard or a gamepad.
Screenshots
Gameplay video
Download
Version 1.0
