Comments on: Let Me Mumble You Through An Early Version Of Gunpoint

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:56:29 +0000

how do i get it

By: Will

Will — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:36:16 +0000

I’d love to test this game out! It looks amazing even with your….. semi-decent graphics! (No offense, but hey, I’m not an artist either :) *Thumbs up* So if you’d like, email me at xzalkex@hotmail.com. I’ve played hundreds of games, so if your looking for some free testers, look no farther! I’ve played EVERYTHING, especially indie dev games! I’m actually thinking about learning to dev something like this as well. Anyway, thanks!!

By: Psytrese

Psytrese — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:58:43 +0000

I think you’re crazy to be doing all this work and not charging for the game. I’m guessing the idea is that you want as many people as possible to play, but believe me, people will buy it if it’s worth it, and it really does look worth it.

I’d be charging at least £1, but if you don’t want to do that, I implore you to put a donation option on the site post-release, as I will definitely be making use of it.

By: WhenInRome

WhenInRome — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:49:44 +0000

Come on, I was already waiting for Subversion, I don’t need something else to make me go “Any news? F5 Any news? F5 Any news? F5”

:P Seriously, this looks great. I can’t wait to see how this turns out

By: Jason L

Jason L — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:36:03 +0000

So. If Tom’s spare-time freeware game wound up with a whole mod community of trenchcoated 24-pixel spies, wouldn’t that be aces?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:44:13 +0000

Amazing stuff! I’m putting together a better post about what I have in mind for the style of the game, and the world, because I don’t want anyone to put too much work into something that’s not going to be compatible.

The main thing is, it turns out there are big problems if you go significantly over 24 pixel height. I’m afraid the upper limit is about 30 for the scale of the game to work on-screen.

By: Lobo

Lobo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:36:51 +0000

Plays slow in IE, fine in Firefox and Chrome: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941525/GunPoint_Run.gif

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:27:25 +0000

Want. So hard. I love the entire concept.

By: Curt

Curt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:24:41 +0000

Ok so I decided to go another way, whattaya think. maybe a bad guy. This is zoomed in obviously but I made him 48px. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/cluis/Newagent1.jpg

By: MartinJ

MartinJ — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:10:07 +0000

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/Condizzle/GP_Anim_Large.gif

holy crap this is the most awesome protagonist ever

By: Curt

Curt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:46:37 +0000

Wow, you guys made my guy look silly! Awesome stuff! Though I didn’t realize we could get away with more than 24 px. I will try one at 48 maybe and see what happens. Heh, its like we are cloud sourcing the design, this could work!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:43:05 +0000

Wow it’s cool seeing what others come up with, mine looks like it came from the NES now that I look at it again today.

The spindly chap that Condi has done could work really nicely as the character is very acrobatic. Ethzee’s has alot of detail as does Lobo’s and I like the hidden face on Curt’s one.

By: Chieron

Chieron — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:35:07 +0000

The latest prototype introduced some new features, which I enjoy, but the musicalfacepunch is still some of the most fun gameplay for me. :P

By: Lobo

Lobo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:42:40 +0000

Hmm, that wasn’t right, was meant to add a link…

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941525/GunPoint.jpg

By: Lobo

Lobo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:41:46 +0000

Just working on a run.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:02:06 +0000

Oooh, that last set looks nice.

Game as a whole looks nifty keen. Eagerly awaiting.

By: EthZee

EthZee — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:54:03 +0000

Heh. This is looking to be pretty damn fun!

I thought I should give a try with the sprites; I tried to get something similar to your current style.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/cheeseweasel/DemoGunpoint.gif

I’d like to see if I could help; I’m not too experienced with animated sprites, but I think that it could be entertaining.

By: Condi Buggle

Condi Buggle — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:59:56 +0000

I’m not too great at pixel art, but I do have far too much time on my hands and would love to contribute if you still need help.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/Condizzle/GP_Anim_Large.gif

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:43:21 +0000

I decided to have a go for fun:

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh235/chijts/gunpointfun.jpg

24 pixels is really small as you can see by the comparison there!

By: Curt

Curt — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:19:04 +0000

http://cluisarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/agentguyrunning.gif like this maybe?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:35:41 +0000

That looks excellent. I’d love to play such a game, even with the current art and animation (let’s be honest, thousands of Flash games with worse graphics still attract huge attention.

By: cookieheadjenkins

cookieheadjenkins — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:56:29 +0000

I love this! There ought to be more fist-face-door interactions of this quality in games. Can’t wait to play.

By: Smannesman

Smannesman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:53:25 +0000

Looks very interesting, can’t wait ’till there’s something playable.

By: Keilnoth

Keilnoth — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:49:35 +0000

Looks great ! Can’t wait !
Would be nice on my Android as well. Seems it could be easily played AngryBirds’-one-finger style.

By: Ben L.

Ben L. — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:20:38 +0000

Nice. Not just another twee indie platformer with one new gimmick. Looks like a game I’d want to play.

By: Flash

Flash — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:22:41 +0000

I wish i had some art skills.

You better get someone to help. Anyone wanting to get into developing games themselves would be stupid to pass up an opportunity like this. This game will be a hit! Can’t wait to play it.

Great concepts, keep it light and a little silly. Go nuts with the levels, there are lots of people who love complex games… work hard at getting the difficulty curve right… thats seems to be a sticking point for flash games

By: Dan Lawrence

Dan Lawrence — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:31:43 +0000

Seems to be coming along really well.

Might be worth poking around for an artist in some indie developer hidey holes as well.

By: yns88

yns88 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:15:22 +0000

Looks great. Perhaps the door trick and other “easy” takedowns can be balanced by only causing short-term incapacitation.

I can also foresee some problems with the autosave system: there may be times when you decide to do some hacking while in danger of being caught, and it would suck if the game autosaved you 2 seconds before you get shot.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:13:41 +0000

I know there’s alot of praise going on around here, but I’m really surprised how well everything is working (no offence), especially that gunpoint mechanic, very cool ideas.

I’d like to help out but I haven’t done any sprite work/animations, plus it looks like you’re getting enough interest that you’re bound to find plenty of people with experience that are willing to help out.

Whoever does end up helping you needs to keep the punching animation very similar to what you have there, it’s fantastically funny when combined with that sound effect. I also think you should make sure the levels stay fairly clean of too much detail – I quite like the minimalist look as it is.

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By: pizza

pizza — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:44:58 +0000

This looks excellent, love how he jumps through windows.

Seconded the multiple face punches comment Crane made, check out http://www.kongregate.com/games/weremsoft/vox-populi-vox-dei-a-werewolf-thriller this game with a similar facepunch mechanic, very satisfying to pummel them.

By: LeSwordfish

LeSwordfish — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:17:38 +0000

*aren’t

Oh the unprofessionalism.

By: LeSwordfish

LeSwordfish — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:17:09 +0000

Is it alright if i post a link to this on tf2maps.net? I cant be any help artistically, but i know many people there who ARE good, several of whom are’nt doing anything major.

By: Crane

Crane — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:00:07 +0000

Oh, that looks fantastic!
I absolutely love the face-door trick. It may be rough, but it looks very solid and fun.
I’d make one suggestion though; it might be nice if it took more than one punch to knock someone out. Mainly, I suggest this because it sounds so satisfying to land on one of them and beat them about the head three or four times, while just doing it once seems a little too quick.

Like premature ejaculation, but with violence.

Why do people keep letting me use similies?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:57:10 +0000

It looks really, really good. I think you’ve just made Subversion obsolete, unless that also has guards bonking themselves with doors and sticking their fingers in sockets. Which it should.

By: Jonn

Jonn — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:42:48 +0000

Looks pretty good, actually. Reminds me of Trilby: The Art of Theft, by your profane countryman who makes videos for the Escapist. Great, now I want to download it again.

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:17:03 +0000

Okay, I laughed out loud less than a minute in because of the “face punching” incident. It doesn’t help that the sound you use is more a slap than a punch. =)

Love the video. I will recommend this to others.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:07:07 +0000

Wow, these mechanics look really interesting and unique! I was sort of expecting a larger persistant world from reading your blog posts along the way, but this format of smaller levels definitely works! I can also see some Hitman inspiration in there.

The movement of the player really reminds me of a cat jumping around and pouncing on people (could be an idea to experiment with possibly).

Great job so far and good luck (I also wouldn’t mind helping test in the future if necessary). :)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:39:22 +0000

Your video’s currently on the frontpage of reddit.com/r/gaming.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:13:36 +0000

This is an awesome platformer idea. Very unique! I can see this becoming popular and extremely fun to play.

Good luck!

By: Hovercraft

Hovercraft — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:01:34 +0000

The art may be rough, but I love the sound effects. Especially the face hitting.

*SMEK*

By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:54:11 +0000

I’d love to give it a go!