SKULLFACE

Brilliant, fantastic work! Very slick!

What a fantastic and well designed game, great work! To my eyes it's as good as Super Meat Boy etc. I am delighted to see something of this quality can be made by Stencyl!

Its really good one! Superb job! Very good atmosphere. Great gameplay.

  This looks insanely cool!

best game for the end of 2012

Perhaps the smoothest and most polished Stencyl game yet

So far my only complaints are jetpack usage, I would have perhaps put it to the same key you use to jump. Also the character could slide faster, slow sliding becomes partically annoying in level 21, Yaga Temple.

Thanks a lot for the feedback and praise, it is really great to read after the long isolated haul of devlopment!

I put together a making of video for the game which i hope some people find interesting:

WATCH THE MAKING OF SKULLFACE

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THANKS!!

The grappling hook took me back to Bionic Commando. Nice video!

How'd you do the grappling hook from a technical perspective?

I didn't make it! Sam Morrison programmed that, but if i had to guess:

- raycast to each hook within range, choose the closest one, sorting by players look direction
- from there you basically constrain the player to not move any further away from the grapplehook, but keep his momentum, and add a math function to interpolate, somehow giving it a springy feel
- draw a line between the two to make it look like a grapplinghook
- we were also going to smooth-rotate the player sprite so that his head faces the grapple-point, to make it look more like he is swinging

You could probably google and find an answer much better than this!

You could also connect the character to the hook with a distance (stick) joint.

Badges on Kongregate. You already had my respect for making a very polished game, now you have my admiration for achieving this, congratulations!