Brad Borne and Electronic Arts are partnering up for the release of Mirror’s Edge 2D!
I made a post about it in the forum a few days ago, but it looks like the news is out, so here’s the official post about it.
We’re still a week or two away from full launch, but I’d like to get as much feedback about the beta as possible, so if you find anything glitching out, or anything you’d like to comment on, just comment this post.
Update: Just added a timer, lets see those scores! Finish the level to store best time.
To anyone having problems with high jumping from ledges:
Run at the ledge
Jump right before you hit it (or go too high from a wall climb)
Hold jump when she snaps to it
Keep holding jump
Annnd yeah
Criticism and responses: there has been a ton of aspects of the game that have been tweaked to address some criticism. I’ll try to address things that I’m not changing, or won’t add until the final game (most likely, at least) here:
Enemies?
There will be some sections with enemies (like, mini-levels), if I can get the balance right and keep it fun. Basically, enemies slow the player down, I know that most people want to keep moving on big sections.
Wall jump / jump is too powerful / not realistic enough
Well, yes, the wall jump probably seems to powerful in this level. I had it toned down much more at first, but that made Level 2 impossible in some parts. Same thing with the jump height. Certain level designs just aren’t possible if I keep the movement too conservative. And this is 2d, I need to use those two d’s as much as I can! That means lots of vertical ground covered, far more than in the console counterpart.
Re-mappable controls
This definitely highlights my hatred of the keyboard as the standard of input for computer games, but what can I do about that (besides tell you guys to use joytokey, darwiinremote, gamepad companion, etc)? Re-mappable controls are only necessary when games get too complex, devs ignore standards, or in the case of PC gaming, there are hardly any standards at all. I’ll try and add a few different control types to the game if I have the time, but I like to try and keep all my games so that the arrow keys map to the d-pad, and the WASD map to the face buttons. Basically, I’m a console gamer developing for a mouse and keyboard input scheme.
Hey borne, how do you make the animations for the character?
I know this is going to sound I bit harsh but,
I think you’ve just ripped off Fancy Pants Adventures.
because both game games have the same fluent running style, both have little hidden rooms in each levels, both have curly loops and jumps, both have the same animation alike, and most of all both have that dust effect when the player lands on the ground. (level design looks like FPA aswell)
I don’t mind this, because I like FPA (fancy pants adventures) But I know other people are going to want something new so you guy better find someting new and sparking for the players!
thnx 4 reading S_BIRKO
THIS WAS POSTED AT MIRRORSEDGE2D FEEDBACK, AND TO BRAD BORNE’s BLOG/WEBSITE
I think that she should be able to backflip.
Hey, Brad I want to be a (FREE!!!) tester for fancy pants 3.
I’ve allrady emailed you.
Respond here or at at kekie3@gmail.com
Found a glitch in fancy pants 2, in the world where you get the black pants. next to the cannon there is a spider, knock it so it flys to the right (not dead, just dizzy) in between the rungs, and it will turn on it’s side in mid air, and when it wakes up it will go crazy.
yeah, its funny that even after 6 and a half versions there are stilla bunch of glitches. most of them involving baddies. also, the most fun glitch in the game is in level five, or the one that has the “RUN FAST! RUN FACNY!” in it. in the first spot that you have to slide into and then roll down, you can also roll back up! it looks really funny!! 8P
oh, and I also would like to be a “free” tester for world three,
- jesus_minime@hotmail.com
@Darkheart, jesus_minime: Brad lets anyone beta-test his games, once he has a beta prepared, you don’t need to ask. And he’s not going to pay you, so don’t act as if testing for “free” is such a big deal.
dose that mean that all of the “bug spotters” will get put into the the “testing help by” section?
If you contribute significantly to making a release more stable, then yeah, I think you deserve a shout-out in the credits
Yeah, just way too much going on with all the interactions, I’m going to put a ton more of protections in this time, though. There were also a ton more fixes to the engine for ME2D, since that game pushes certain aspects much more than World 2 did, so most of those should carry over to World 3. Platforms are still a bit buggy, though, but I should be able to fix that soon.