My submission to The Very Serious Juniper Dev Game Jam, A New Down is a unique and difficult puzzle platformer with novel spinning mechanics
DEMO (Itch.io)
Web version—downloads are also available
- Interesting and novel spinning mechanics
- Retro-inspired pixel-perfect graphics
- Short, difficult levels for rewarding gameplay
A New Dawn was created with Godot version 4.7, and the development process brought along some significant difficulties. Getting the physics system to work with a constantly rotating level was tough, and I had to try several different techniques to make the player move in a way that I liked. If you want to see more about the development journey, check out the devlogs here.
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All code and art created by Eric Schuette (me)
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Music by Anthony Hsu
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The main font is Chonkly by ItMeArcadia (CC0)
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Sound effects from 512 Sound Effects (8-bit style) by SubspaceAudio (CC0)
Huge thanks to everyone who tested out the game and gave feedback—it was very helpful and extremely valuable.