Punicorn Escape by Mind Juice Media

[MindJuice]

Hi everyone...soooo...I'm making a game with the working title of "Punicorn Escape".

You are a tiny unicorn that has escaped from a top-secret government facility. On an unrelated note, this is the same facility that safeguards the world from leprechauns, gremlins, and dragons, and also has a massive repository for all your missing socks.

To make your escape you must keep moving or the government retrieval bot will catch you and return you to captivity.

Use your magical horn to jump/fly your way through the various obstacles like spider webs and escape to freedom!

Save the unicorn!



Gameplay is basically a side-scroller a bit like Canabalt, and your score is based on how far you get before you are captured.

[OTrain13]

I love it!

[Vester]

Lol. Sounds like a very fun idea! A unicorn trying to escape a top secret government facility? That's hilarious!

[cjsbug]

I LOL'ed at "Punicorn." It just sounds funny.

[MasterChief3624]

Awwwwww. That is soooo cute.

[MindJuice]

So, I have a dynamically generated world running now.

The ground height sections are randomly generated, and the plants in the background are also randomly generated. The grass is alternating between two textures.

These are arranged into 3 levels of parallax scrolling for the ground, grass and plants. I'll probably add a far background as well of mountains and/or clouds or something like that.

Frame rate is pretty low right now for some reason, so I'll have to look into that sometime in the next few hours.

Switching to work on the unicorn now, including jumping and collision detection.

I think he needs a name. Any suggestions?

[jak56]

try this for inspiration

[sam the lion]

Originally Posted by jak56

try this for inspiration

amazing!
hey, I want that one on the iPhone!!!

[MindJuice]

Originally Posted by sam the lion

amazing!
hey, I want that one on the iPhone!!!

Yeah, me too!

So funny...I was thinking of adding a rainbow trail when you jump, and having a dash button to smash through enemies, but I've never seen that game before!

360 iDev parties for the past 3 nights + Conferences Tuesday All Day+ Game Jam All Night + Conferences All Day Wednesday + Flying Back Home Wednesday = One VERY Tired Developer!

[jak56]

Originally Posted by sam the lion

amazing!
hey, I want that one on the iPhone!!!

isn't the music just hilarious?