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Thumby / New game: Flucht

« on: July 22, 2022, 09:47:37 AM »

My game has just been added to the arcade.



It's played in portrait mode, so your Thumby will be horizontal instead of vertical, and the screen will be taller than wide. It's a one button game, any Thumby button will work.



You can also play it in your browser! https://sergilazaro.itch.io/flucht

I made a compatibility layer so that I could play it on my desktop as well as on a web browser, using pygame and webassembly. More info on this repo: https://github.com/sergilazaro/flucht

Feel free to use my code (MIT licensed), and use the same concept to be able to "export" your games for your desktop or browser. The compatibility layer is not complete (I only implemented what I needed), but it can be a start if you're interested.

You can see a video of what it looks like on the Thumby itself on this tweet: https://twitter.com/sergilazaro/status/1550060693335982080 (retweets appreciated but not needed). It runs pretty smooth, I believe around 30fps. I have a FPS counter disabled by default that I enabled every now and then for debugging and optimizing.

I'm excited to get other people to play it!

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Thumby / Re: "Portrait" rotation games?

« on: March 11, 2022, 12:41:16 PM »

That's great to know! Thanks!

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Thumby / "Portrait" rotation games?

« on: March 11, 2022, 05:45:05 AM »

Hi!

While waiting for my Thumby to arrive, I'm developing a small game. The "problem" is that the game is played in "portrait mode" (i.e. rotated 90 degrees), as opposed to the default "landscape" screen.

That would require to play with the device rotated 90º to the left. It's a one button game so access to inputs is not going to be a problem even in this position.

But I'm wondering if the game would be accepted on the Arcade, since it's a bit of a special case. The preview image would not match the resolution (or show the game rotated), so maybe it wouldn't fit the "curation" of the list of games.

What do you think?

Here's a dev screenshot: