Here is my first game jam entry and my third game. after my first game, i decided to keep a running theme and i went with my character Ace.
the first game Space Ace begins his story as a space fighter pilot, he gets taken down and crash lands on a nearby planet.
the second game Aces Base is a survival platformer and im still working on trying to get that published as soon as i can, but he finds himself surrounded by aliens trying to catch him.
the third game, this one, they captured him and cloned him and now he has to battle for their entertainment and his freedom.
i had a lot of fun making this one, well i had fun making all of them, but this one was for a purpose. i think i have made it smooth enough and got all the bugs out. let me know if you find any and what you did to find them. there are two game crashing bugs i know of that i dont know how to fix without breaking even more but they are very rare.
i dont think i can add more features because i want all my games to be able to run on the hardware, but maybe one day i can revisit and add to it for fun. i think more characters to choose from would not be too difficult and was my intention before i started making it.
i hope you enjoy aces adventures as much as i do. second game is coming as quickly as i can fix it. hopefully soon
This game is great! I could see it beating my own. I just have a few nitpicks on the art if you want some feedback.
Nitpicks
Using the default arcade backgrounds with custom art seems unprofessional. Usually doing a quick background yourself looks a lot better.
It usually looks worse when you use 2x2 or 4x4 boxes of pixels, which I can see on the title screen art. Maybe next time just take a second to smooth out the outlines and add a little more detail where it’s needed.
haha yah i know what you mean about the backgrounds but i really liked this one, so i changed it so it isnt completely default. i tried to take away a lot of the uniformity the background had with repeating patterns.
also yah i know exactly what you are talking about with the art. i had a lot of issues with that and i do want to fix it eventually, first i tried to draw them with 1 block pixels and the pictures were too small, then i tried to draw it by doubling the pixel size and the pictures were much bigger but lacked a lot of detail so i started to add in extra detail with the smaller pixel brush, i have missed many places and it is something i would like to fix when i get time
though trying to create the ai for the cpu almost broke my brain