The Coop
10-11-2007, 08:04 PM
Turtix is a platformer in much the same vein as many 16-bit platformers. You jump, land on top of an enemy's head, and then kick them off. Nothing revolutionary, but it's carried a lot of platformers over the years without much griping.
In this game, you go through ten levels of a world, fight a boss to get a piece of the amulet you're trying to get, and then you move on to the next world. The levels start small and simple, but get noticeably larger as the worlds progress. You also have to rescue small turtles to open the exit portal. All this is standard, right? Well, what makes Turtix stand out though, is its graphical style.
Flash would seem to be the game's origins, but the backgrounds, characters and such are drawn out with a very nice level of attention to detail and shading, rather than flat areas of color (like Flash games tend to have). Little things like Turtix's backpack and his hair were given its own sense of motion, and these kinds of little touches are everywhere on the characters as they stand or move. The graphics themselves are done up in a cartoony fashion, but they're also well shaded with lots of small objects and such to make them look more lush. Basically, it looks like what you'd expect a 32bit platformer to look like in terms of details and little touches, but it's given the level of fluidity that Flash can provide much easier than drawing it out pixel by pixel.
The only real downside is the music. It's not bad, it's just that each world seems to only have one song that plays through the entire world of ten levels. As a result, you get a bit tired of the tune by the time you reach the boss.
It's not a hard game by any means, and chances are, good players will make it through with little trouble. But, there's a lot of effort that went into its creation, and it is a fun little game. I figured that since there's twelve hours to go before the download time ends, I'd post this in it's own thread like I did with Jets n' Guns a while back.
So if you want a new platform game to play, follow the link below and grab it while you can...
http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/turtix/
Note: Be sure to install AND activate it before 3AM EST (12 hours from the time of this post). A number of people screwed themselves over by not activating Jets n' Guns as soon as they installed it, or they didn't bother to install it until it was too late to activate it. So don't make that mistake.
In this game, you go through ten levels of a world, fight a boss to get a piece of the amulet you're trying to get, and then you move on to the next world. The levels start small and simple, but get noticeably larger as the worlds progress. You also have to rescue small turtles to open the exit portal. All this is standard, right? Well, what makes Turtix stand out though, is its graphical style.
Flash would seem to be the game's origins, but the backgrounds, characters and such are drawn out with a very nice level of attention to detail and shading, rather than flat areas of color (like Flash games tend to have). Little things like Turtix's backpack and his hair were given its own sense of motion, and these kinds of little touches are everywhere on the characters as they stand or move. The graphics themselves are done up in a cartoony fashion, but they're also well shaded with lots of small objects and such to make them look more lush. Basically, it looks like what you'd expect a 32bit platformer to look like in terms of details and little touches, but it's given the level of fluidity that Flash can provide much easier than drawing it out pixel by pixel.
The only real downside is the music. It's not bad, it's just that each world seems to only have one song that plays through the entire world of ten levels. As a result, you get a bit tired of the tune by the time you reach the boss.
It's not a hard game by any means, and chances are, good players will make it through with little trouble. But, there's a lot of effort that went into its creation, and it is a fun little game. I figured that since there's twelve hours to go before the download time ends, I'd post this in it's own thread like I did with Jets n' Guns a while back.
So if you want a new platform game to play, follow the link below and grab it while you can...
http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/turtix/
Note: Be sure to install AND activate it before 3AM EST (12 hours from the time of this post). A number of people screwed themselves over by not activating Jets n' Guns as soon as they installed it, or they didn't bother to install it until it was too late to activate it. So don't make that mistake.