Graphical Overhaul.

 

Mea's Castle 1.09

by Astorek86

Cart #meas_castle-12 | 2021-10-29 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Mea's Castle

Mea's Castle is a Metroidvania-like Game: You're a little Adventurer and your Goal is to find the "Cup of Hope". You can run and jump, and soon you will find some Artifacts that'll give you more Abilities.

🠔🠖 - Move
🠗 + 🠔🠖 - Crouch
(Z) - Jump
(X) + 🠗 - Use the last Powerup

Warning
This Game is difficult. If you're not a Fan of Jump'n Run-like Games, I think it will be too frustrating^^. There are still Checkpoints basically everywhere, but it's still not easy to beat that Game. Expect to die a lot while playing this^^.

Credits

Thanks to

• @Gruber for the Music "Eyes in the Dark" and "Flight of Icarus" (both with slight Remixes) from Pico-8 Tunes Volume 2 .
• Youtuber Dev Quest and his Video Efficient Tilesets in Pico-8 Tutorial
• @Krystman for his Cartridge "Sample Code: Screenshake and Fading" and all the other Videos and Tutorials.
• Youtuber hh7x6 and his Speedrun-Video.
• Of course: Thanks to you for playing! :)

Other stuff

Also, if you like to cheat, you can use

Also, here's the Map of the Game. Altough I'm not sure if it's that useful here^^:

Start-Position is where the Map says "Hi":

Hope you'll have Fun with that little Game^^.

Enjoy!

Changelogs

That was fun! Thanks for using the music :)

great cart but way too hard at the end , im sure you know which level i mean ! shame as it spoiled it for me

@bigjus: You know what? You're absolutely right, this Part ist way too hard! I've just uploaded a new Version that replaced that Level entirely. Sorry for Spoiling^^.

(Note to myself: Next Time, I should sleep a day before I upload something^^)

Thank you for your Feedback! :)

@Gruber: You're Welcome, and Thank You for your great Music you made available! :)

thanks astorek86 , glad you didnt see my comments as negative , every player gets satisfaction from completing a game (however hard) and ive played lots of games i cant finish and felt frustrated !
a good ending is as satisfying as the actual game itself !

great work , look forward to your next one

Amazing game! I enjoyed it very much. I finished the original one with the difficult last level, which was hard but also engaging. Finished it again with the new last level. Didn't get the

Pretty cool! Finished in 18:13 and 60 deaths :)

Is there any place to play/see the original last level? I didn't discover this game until a few days ago. Anyway, here's the best I could do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatvWypqnPQ

Great game with really good controls!

From what I played so far, this game is awesome! Really tight controls and smart level design. I love how backtracking isn't frustrating since you smartly allow new abilities to make the screens easier. Plus the game feels so good to play that I don't mind dying a dozen times. It even works pretty great on mobile! (except that one level with where you have to duck repeatedly on a conveyor belt, it's a bit cumbersome with touch controls). Also, I really appreciate how obstacles on a cycle always reset to the same spot when you die.

I really want to finish the game, but sadly I can't! When I try to exit the room where you get the key, the game freezes with my little guy stuck on the right edge of the screen not taking inputs (shown in the screenshot). The music keeps playing, but that's pretty much all that still works. This happened to me twice, once on mobile and once in the web player on a computer. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's just a bug. Would love to see this patched out and come back to see the ending!

Sorry for the late Reply^^. And Thank you all for the Feedback, I really appreciate that :)

@ChakAttack :

@hahhah42 : Great Speedrun, love that you're using Coyote-Jumps to spare time, I never thought of that ;D . If you've bought PICO-8, you can download every Version with it, like "load #meas_castle-0". I've just updated the first Post and put all Versions of the Game in it^^.

(EDIT: Sorry, I put every other Version off from the Start-Post, because there's some problems here and there after uploading it. For example, I suddenly couldn't play the Game on my Mobile-Devices anymore^^)

@MacadamiaMan : You did nothing wrong, that's a bug^^. I've just uploaded a new Version where the bug should no longer occur. The Bug works like this: If you leave the current Screen, the Map will be drawn completely new, including the Door-Tiles. Sometimes the Player doesn't leave the "old" Screen quickly enough, so a few Pixels from the Player are still on the "old" Screen with the Door-Tile, and the Players' Collision-System hangs on an infinite Loop. Shouldn't happen again^^.

@Astorek86 Awesome, thanks for the patch. That final powerup is so interesting, I would play an entire game about it alone! Great game :)

Great game - difficult but certainly achievable. Thanks to the speedrun video. I spent ages failing to get past one of the later rooms without the last ability

This was really enjoyable :) I like how you unlocked new abilities and the castle became more accessible because of that.

Amazing game with lots of fun. Not sure if this is a good score

I have just set up my new gameforce chi with pico 8 today and this is the first game I played on it. It took me 28 minutes and I loved the game! It felt really great in particular to unlock double jump. I think you really nailed the movement in the game. Thanks for the fun!

 I'm gonna speedrun this game.

As you can see i got a 7.56.1 with 19 deaths
This is my 5th-6th run so far
Sub-5 is definitely possible
I am also using the web version, as I have a Chromebook.

PS I just saw @hahhah42 do a great score, so i guess ill be challenging you to this game now lol

That last bit was really hard, but it felt super satisfying to beat. Very fun short game

neat game! I got confused at where to go sometimes, but it still never lost my interest and I beat it. there was one room (conveyor belt, spikes, and a little dude shooting at you) where I felt there maybe should have been an additional checkpoint. but these are minor things, very well-executed game. and impressive that you made a successful metroidvania, those are pretty tough to get right!

@MikeDingus I thought I could beat your speedrun but I only got 8.08.3 with 12 deaths! Annoyingly I was playing too cautiously. I think I can do sub 7 minutes but not sub 5 minutes.

@Astorek86 this is such a fun game. The controls are so tight and the whole game works really well.

I could bring the time down a little more, but this is my pb for now

There's something you might wanna fix.

Once again, Thank you all for the Feedback! Also love to see a bit of a Speedrun-Competition is going on :)

@Some1NamedNate: Thanks for pointing that out. I just released a new Version which should fix that graphical Issue. This Bug happened if you pressed "Left" and "Right" at the same time while sliding down a Wall. Shouldn't occur again^^.

took like 9 trys but thats the best I could manage

To anyone who wants to speedrun this game, we've finally got it on speedrun.com! https://www.speedrun.com/meas_castle

The current world record for any% is 4:54, and with the konami code it's 4:10. Both can definitely be beaten, so if you want to learn strats then you should also join the discord: https://discord.com/invite/Mmy5wJAXEJ

Thank you for that cheat, and great game btw.