Under Construction
Under Construction
Under Construction is the first game I seriously published. It's a short and minimal little platformer set in the Flora universe.
I wrote the code; my partnerGlip provided the concept, art, music, and map. (So, all the real work.) We put it together over the course of a few weeks in the spring of 2016 using thePICO-8 fantasy console.
Arrow keys move. Up jumps. (Sorry.) X restarts from the beginning.
If you own "a" PICO-8, you can also find it in the game browser.
See also:
- Canonical home on my own website
- Original release on the Flora website, including cover art
- Release on the PICO-8 BBS
- Downloadable cartridge
- Original source code (the release copy had comments stripped for size reasons)
- My writeup of my experience writing the game
- Online version of the instruction manual
- Buy a physical copy of the instruction manual
- Soundtrack on Bandcamp
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Release date | May 25, 2016 |
| Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (26 total ratings) |
| Authors | eevee,Floraverse |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Made with | PICO-8 |
| Tags | 2D,8-Bit,floraverse,Minimalist,PICO-8,Surreal |
| Code license | MIT License |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard |
| Links | Original Floraverse release,Eevee's writeup,Soundtrack,Instruction manual |
Comments
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Fun little game! I found the conveyance/knowing-what-to-do-i-ness of the game a little frustrating in bits, so here's a little hint-based objective guide for any players coming across this:
| All | Go to your friend to finish a level. |
| Start | Don't look at your friend. |
| Loop 1 | Destroy all Radios. (Jump on top of them.) |
| Loop 2 | Don't hurt any Pain Towers. (Touching the black eye towers is forbidden!) |
| Loop 3 | Put out all Fires. (You can push the rocks.) (Rocks put out fires.) |
| End | That's all, folks! |
| bonus: | In the ending: - Press X - Hold Up during the death text - Go left - Explore! For the "teeth" incarnation of the friend, this is the only way to see the otherwise unused level. Pretty cool! |
| advice: | If you can't find something, just go everywhere you can. The map isn't too big. |
| Standing on the top of horizontal spikes is painless. Use this to get the top-right-most Radio without having a stroke. | |
| Check the instruction manual. It is worthless for actual instructions, but provides some additional story. | |
| Your friend is in the bottom-right corner of the map, if you really can't find her. | |
| If Mole dies, your radio/fire progress is saved between lives. Don't stress about it. | |
| To get onto the roof of the building, try dropping in from above. |
