SQUARE NOSE - the Squarrel

"no inertia (you run at your max speed as early as you press LEFT or RIGHT)"

so this is considered as a feature now? sweet!

Good but hard.

Ha ha... I am working on a harder version: the ennemies speed up when you loop the game. True players will appreciate. :-D

lol, sadistic !!   :D   I think that color version for Meta will be great too.

Nice little game! I assume the flashing for gray is an artifact of the arduboy crosscompiling?

Thank you! The flashing for gray  works the same on the two devices. There is a small difference in the way it blinks on Gamebuino Meta: the frequency is slower and there is a sort of diagonal shape (horizontal on Arduboy). The Gamebuino screen is also brighter. Maybe I will keep the flashing in the true Meta port or maybe using colors will be efficient. Flashing is quite easy to code on Arduboy using "if(arduboy.everyXFrames(2))" before drawing a picture. I have used it quite often in this game. But it may be not look the same if the framerate is not 60.

Flashing is quite easy to code on Arduboy using "if(arduboy.everyXFrames(2))" before drawing a picture.

As a little hint, you might want to add spacial dithering, so flash a checkerboard pattern back and forth. That would give even cleaner grayscale.

But yeah, the meta screen itself can just display gray

Introducing the Square Nose characters! Here, made in perler beads by Coxeline ( http://coxeline.com ).

In order of appearance in the game:

Square Nose the squarrel, with its brown fur. It was genetically modified to fit in a box and to be always hungry. It can run and jump like a true acrobat. Its nose is a red square, like a famous independent video game character.

In the first level we meet Bird and its white and gray feathers. If it were flapping, it could be the main character of this game. It shares the room with Bug and its blue shell. The only bug in the game. It walks at random speed. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast.

Frog is green with blue eyes and a pink mouth. It looks bigger than Square Nose but jumps the same way. You will meet it in the second level.

Squid is red and rotates around its gray ball, alternatively. It comes from the game « Squiddy » by Aphrodite (on Pico 8 and Pokitto). It is the true last boss of the game. You will see it in the third test chamber, if you play well enough.

There are also the beige meaty rings that Square Nose has to catch. The test is complet when you eat thirty-two of them. If you do it fast enough, they will be considered as good food and will be produced massively to be sold as pet food by the True Pasta company.

Thanks for the beautifull stickers  ;)  Feels free to make another contest when you want  ;) 

I have make this icon.bmp and titlesceen.bmp for my test. If you want you can use them or modify as you want

All the stuff you do look always great  :D

Thanks, happy that it can serve. I like participate  ;)

Thank you to participate. But did you see that I already made ICON and TITLESCREEN for this game, availble in the GitHub folder?

yes, i'll keep them for the black and white version. But don't you works on a color version of the game for the META ?  

The stickers are now avaible for everybody!

Feel free to ask me by PM. I will send you those lovely pixelated characters. 

It costs 2 euros per A5 sheet. Colors or black and white. Free shipping only for France, in addition for the rest of the world.

Each pixel on those is 5 x 5 mm. They don't fit for outside use. Cut them easily with scissors. Colors match with the standard Gamebuino palette.