Dashify
Welcome to Dashify
(Use WASD or Arrow Keys to go through menu, Space to Select)
Spike the Turtle is trapped in an pixel arcade-like video game.
Help him jump through the game and uncover files to help him hack out.
You can hack his dash patterns on the "Dashify" App (once you unlock it) to help him get through the levels and collect the fruit by dashing though walls and air.
WASD or Arrows to Move, P to Pause, R to Restart.
If you have a moderately good computer, go to options and test if "High Quality" mode works well for you. Helps with the annoying text blur. If not, change it back to Low Quality.
There are 20 main levels for you to complete, and some bonus material!
You can disable the vignette effect in options if you don't like the border, as well as the RGB effects when dashing.
Data will Save.
If there are any bugs or glitches, tell me now because after a while I won't care to fix them.
Hope you enjoy!
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Just played the first few levels and it feels great, I really like the way the dash mechanic is introduced. I just died like 4 times on the next level until I worked out that the dash doesn't follow the direction of the character, glad I watched the trailer!
EDIT
Got to level 9, some thoughts:
It can feel a bit unfair when the collision detection pops you out from being where you want to be back into a chasm. Maybe you could give it a bit more leeway, so if the character is more than 50% in an open space at the end of the dash they get dropped in that space?
On top of that, maybe some checkpoints? Don't know if they show up later. I can only assume the levels are going to get longer and more challenging, and I just rage quit on 9, some midway checkpoints at least would be something to aim for and keep me going.
Now I've written this I want to see if I can beat it...
EDIT
Nah, made it to 10 but died on the home stretch and that was my lot. I find doing horizontal jumps over spikes pretty hard, maybe because the camera follows the character quite aggressively and it's hard to see where a safe stopping position is. Or maybe I just need to git gud, either way, nice little game, keep it up!
yooo thank you. i'll take your comments into consideration and will try to change up some things (aka make it easier and stuff). Thanks for trying it out though :)
Just had another little go, I like the purple orb mechanics. Not sure if it's a bug, but it seems that dashing will not activate if any 2 directional keys are pressed apart from right and up?
Finished! 144 deaths, 1 tangerine! Really like the jetpack addition, and once I started getting muscle memory for the moves the difficulty wasn't so bad :) Bravo!
Thank you! I'll still go back in and make it slightly easier and add some leeway to the dashes if I can, but still I salute you for making it all the way through!
I'm still confused about the "2 directional key" bug. The only combination that I figured out was if you hold up and down at the same time it wouldn't dash, which I think isn't that big of a deal.