Ladder Man

Gameplay Footage on YT

Controls

*Note if using controller, browsers requires one key/mouse press to unmute sound.

	Keyboard	Controller
Move	Directional Keys	Directional Buttons
Jump	Spacebar	Cross, A
Shoot	Z	Square, X
Throw Ladder	X	Triangle, Y
Throw Ladder Up	Up + Throw Ladder

How to Play

Shoot monsters and collect loot. Loot scores you points which unlocks the next wave. Ladders are somewhat scarce so try to plan your movements carefully. Monsters can also drop green boxes that contain ladders.

General Thoughts

This took a lot longer than I expected to get done despite the initial idea being fairly simple. A seemingly simple mechanic such as ladders took me quite some testing and tweaking to get right. There were also a ton of other small things that added up like getting the player animations and states/behaviors to transition properly, testing the balance of loot spawns and drops, fixing a crash with no debug message (I suspect it had something to do with incorrect timing of when to run a loop that instanced objects).

But all in all, they were pretty valuable learning experiences which I hope to take in to the next project.

Credits

• Super Grotto Escape, Sunny Land by ansimuz
• Castle Platformer by Jetrel
• Fire/Bullet/Explosion effects by bdragon1727
• MV Platformer Weapon Set by MoikMellah
• Forest Monsers by Calciumtrice under CC-BY 3.0
• Spooky Castle Tileset by Buch
• Various inventory 24 pixel icon set by OceansDream under CC-BY 3.0
• Gold treasure icons by Bonsaiheldin

Sound

• 512 Sound Effects (8-bit style) by SubspaceAudio
• NES Sounds by Baŝto
• SFX: The Ultimate 2017 16 bit Mini pack by pheonix1291
• 50 CC0 retro / synth SFX by rubberduck
• Tetros Arcade Cabinet - Poupi's incredible adventures ! by Komiku