Dead Content [FULL GAME] Walk It Off

[Kav]

Walk It Off

Hi all. This is a little joke game I cooked up over the past month after getting tired of seeing those stupid restless legs syndrome commercials.

Synopsis:
Imagine one day you suddenly develop... Restless Legs Syndrome. One fateful day, Max Filesizes is stricken with this horrible affliction. As the player, you must guide Max to meet a sponsor to help find a treatment for RLS.

Gameplay:
If the RLS meter reaches 100%, you start moving automatically. This is a bad thing around cliffs. You can hit Enter to jump if it's at least 50% full. The fuller it is, the farther you jump, as long as it's below 100%. You have to time the jumps carefully.

Spoiler: Screenshots

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9725/walkitoffscreenky9.th.jpg[/img] http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5732/walkitoff1sw5.th.jpg[/img]
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/3305/screen3ob4.th.png[/img] http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7674/screen4qr2.th.png[/img]

There are 4 main areas. A mountain path, a mine, a haunted house and its catacombs, and a final race. There is also a secret minigame where you can play as a gump.

Downloads:
Version for those who have the RPG Maker XP RTP files
Version for those who don't have the RPG Maker XP RTP files

Spoiler: A final warning

If you play as a character with RLS in the game... you may end up playing as a character with RLS for real.

The event scripting is pretty sloppy, but I hope you can at least get a laugh out of it. It might still have some bugs, so if you find any, please post them. Enjoy :gump:

 

[Ninjitsu]

What's Gump mean?

 

[Xilef]

Addictive and challenging if you're me. I had to tear myself away from the game.

 

[mawk]

What's Gump mean?

Probably running all the time, or running very fast.

Yano... "Run, Forrest, run!"

Anyway, looks cool. zSHARE's giving me the roundabout, but I'll play it once I can hold it down long enough.

EDIT: Or maybe I'm blowing steam and it's that weird dog-turkey thing in the last screenshot.

 

[Kav]

The Gump: http://www.waltdisneysreturntooz.com/Gump.htm

 

[Ninjitsu]

Ewww...wtf.

Cool game concept though.
Its hilarious.

 

[mawk]

Well, your mapping needs a lot of work (and your eventing could be improved in some places,) but you're obviously a skilled scripter. I suppose for a joke game, the standards are lower, though.

Anyway, I did notice a couple of glitches, mainly involving the jumping system. It's possible, for instance, to jump into a pool of water in the haunted house and get stuck forever. It's also possible to jump off the tracks and back in the mineshaft. I'm not sure how you'd fix this, since it's a built-in function of the RMXP Jump command, but for the time being it might be better to alter your maps so that people can't do that sort of thing. Suspended tracks or summat, yano?

Anyway, I thought it was pretty fun. Nice work with the scripting and such.

Your .rxproj file was in the decompressed game library, but I gotta thank you for that anyway; it taught me a couple things about eventing, and now I think I could figure out how to use the Hear Steps script -- I was looking for a scripted solution, but a common event or parallel event could work with terrain tags all the easier.

 

[Kav]

@Ninjitsu and Gearpunk: Thanks. Glad you liked it

 

[Despain]

Amazing game, and great concept. Unfortunately I thought the mine area was poorly designed, or maybe it was just buggy. I eventually gave up on it.

 

[OMG_RAWR!]

I hated the game :x
mapping was horrible and the jumping in the mine part was shotty it would be a good game if the controls didnt act up on itself and the maps were good

 

[Spoo]

Dude, it's not about the maps in this, it's the gameplay.

 

[hungery12]

yeah really, I played it, beat. And all I can say, is that it is freakin' addictive! I love it!
Took me a while to get through the mine area.

 

[$t3v0]

Great idea for a simple game, man! It's these kind of games that make me jump back into mine from time to time. Well done!

I must ask though ...

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7674/screen4qr2.png[/img]

What the hell is that?

 

[Kav]

Response: I am well aware the mine area was difficult. I didn't want to make it TOO easy.
Clarification: RMXP was not built for this type of game, which is more of a platformer than an RPG.
Continuation: Using RGSS, it could perhaps have worked better.
Suggestion: You can always just open it up in RMXP and skip the mine area. The rest of the game is relatively easy.
Closing statement: I hope you all at least got a kick out of it.

 

[Despain]

Response: I am well aware the mine area was difficult. I didn't want to make it TOO easy.

There's a difference between difficult and glitchy/poorly desgined.