Jumping at Shadows - A new platform game for the Atari Jaguar by Reboot
A downloadable game
Your nameless hero is thrown into another dark dystopian future, where machines and droids are ruling the lost cities and industrial wastelands. Surprise! Each section of this world is interconnected by a network of strange portals. To open a portal, you have to collect a certain number of gems - gamey!
Welcome to our new project - a platform game for the 64 bit Atari Jaguar!
The goal is the create an awesome fun platfomer for the Jaguar, inspired by Celeste and Micro Mages: fast, tight and dynamic traversal. Thanks due to precise and intuitive control, master the timing of your awesome game characters abilities to overcome the deadliest and most cunningly designed traps!
Design Features:
- An atmospheric platform game inspired by modern classics like Celeste, Super Meat Boy and Micro Mages (Thank you for the great games!)
- Fast and fluid traversal gameplay
- Time double jump and dash mechanics for precise, dynamic platforming
- Shoot those robot patrols with your throwing stars or simply bounce on them!
- Use explosives to destroy the bigger baddies or to open new paths!
- Track down and collect the light gems to open the exit and proceed with your mission
- Track down keys to unlock crucial rooms
- Over 35 levels planned
- Story mode with dialogue, talk to NPCs, visit an hub world to unlock and select levels
- Boss battles with large, animated sprites!
Technical features:
- 3 full screen parallax layers, fluid character animations, fully flexible sprite sizes thanks to the awesome Jaguar sprite engine!
- 60 FPS
- 4 bit, 8 bit and 16 bit colors for sprites and level graphics
- Transparent, animated light effects leveraging Jaguars unique CRY mode (And we thought it was useless lol)
- Fully animated, big sprites
- A dozen of full length music tracks
- Physical release by Atariage
Credits:
Code/Tools/Design: Lawrence "CJ" Staveley
Animated graphics and characters/Design/Levels: Alexander "AnderLex" Grade
Tilesets: Szadi Art
Music: Roald Strauss
Sound Engine: Oxygene/ported by EricD45
Copyright Reboot and
Alexander Grade, 2022-2023
Tiles licensed from SzadiArt
Updated | 10 days ago |
Status | In development |
Author | AnderLex |
Genre | Platformer |
Tags | 2D, atari, atari-jaguar, Pixel Art |
Development log
- Status update10 days ago
- September updateSep 29, 2023
- Progress Update AprilApr 14, 2023
- We just won an award!Apr 01, 2023
- "Atari Awards 2023" - nomination for Jumping At Shadows!Feb 10, 2023
- PRGE demo release!Dec 22, 2022
- June updateJun 30, 2022
- Status UpdateJun 05, 2022
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Looks very cool, would love to talk to you about it for Retro Gamer magazine
Hello, thanks! How can we contact you?
Please visit this thread on atariage.com to get in contact with us: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/330925-jumping-at-shadows-wip-platform-game-fr...