Controls: Arrow Keys to move around. SPACE to attack nearby enemies. M = Mute. P = Pause

About: Designed as a vertical slice for an example level. Instead of trying to prototype the game feature by feature, I wanted to see what the final product would look like. I intended for the project to be heavily art-focused, meaning that the levels could be designed and drawn within the Flash IDE itself:

  • Collision / hit testing uses rectangular sprites and an arbitrarily drawn terrain.
  • Lighting is done with an additive “Highlight” layer and a multiplicative “Shadow” layer
  • Particles are provided by the awesome Flint Particle system.

While I was exploring my options with graphics engines, I made the game using Flixel as well: Flixel Version


Click here to Download Vertical Boon.exe

3 Comments

jeff · March 27, 2019 at 8:01 pm

finally got that dragon over the cliff, really brings the invincibility aspect to guildedguy, and like the guy above said, I say ditto

SimonGhoul · August 20, 2017 at 5:53 pm

smooth animation

Slush Dungeon is Dunzo | Michael Moy · May 29, 2015 at 6:12 pm

[…] I began development of a fighting platformer on October 21, 2013, called “Vertical Boon“. It was also a dungeon-based game, and was supposed to feature Gildedguy as the protagonist. […]

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