retrokid104 + Da Flarf + big lumby + John Favourite - Magnet Mike [gbstudio]

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Oh yeah, and if you'd like to play this without downloading, I've embedded it on GameJolt
for easy enjoyment!

~~edit: don't use this for a bit, we had to resubmit to fix a bug and this hasn't been updated yet~~
edit edit: fixed

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not to be confused with "magic mike"

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Thanks for giving me a credit more than title screen, even though I did basically nothing and procrastinated half the time... ('._. )
I've only played the first 4 stages so I'll update this comment when I complete everything, but here are some weird things that happened:

On stage 3 there was some cutoff on the intro text, and I'm pretty sure I beat it in an unintended way... (You can still push boxes next to you if you wiggle around while shooting.)
On stage 4, I managed to softlock, which made me notice there was no easy way to restart the stage other than reseting the game...

edit: Am idiota

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definitely a great game made by us here! played this in a video call with a couple of my friends and they both enjoyed this as well. i would give my critique here but considering i'm a part of the dev team, i feel like i'd come off as biased eheh...i will say retro is a really relaxed but driven lead and got us to a really good point with this submitted build here!

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@John Favourite There is a way to reset? Press select.

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@john favorite the hold button + wiggle around to push is an intended mechanic. By holding the push button and walking into a crate, you can "strength push" the crate

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level 4 can go fuck itself. otherwise fun time. shoving the blocks was a bit awkward i dont know if it was my controller but i had to keep spamming the input for it to work

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yeah. if we’d had more time we would have rearranged the levels a bit in order of difficulty. also, it might not have been made clear, you are supposed to hold the button to push the crates. hope this helps.

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its a fun little concept/mechanic and i like the puzzles. but the speed of animations and walking around got more and more frustrating to me, when i had the solution figured out but had to wait endlessly for my player or a box to move halfway across the screen first

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@kleeder Thanks for the feedback! To get the mechanics right, I had to pull a few Tod Howard's, which made the game run slower than I would've liked.

first, by default projectiles cannot collide into walls. To fix this I had to make invisible sprites for the projectile to collide with.

Second, every frame one of those walls checks if the right number of crates are in the right spot.

Third, to keep the crates from clipping into the player or into walls, I had to make sure that the crate was a certain distance away from the player in order to move. That led to the creation of the "strength push " mechanic.

All in all, I like the GB studio engine, but if I use it again, I'd probably modify the source code a bit to save myself some psychological torment.