Bionic ComMANd

Bionic ComMANd

Release type: TBA
Latest build date: June 29, 2012
Levels: TBA
Author: Alan Caudel
Website: Dummy Duck
Related games: Man Game, Man Game RPG, Man Game Stairs, Man Game Fire, Lighting, FallDownGoBoom

THIS GAME IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
ALL INFORMATION IS TENTATIVE

The fourth entry in Alan Caudel's Man Game is a little left-field. The experiment this time is one potential method to swing on vines or other dangling fibers -- the inspiration being from Capcom's Bionic Commando series.

Alan Caudel:

How this works: First, there's no gravity on the background blocks. The character's idle animation slowly moves downward to mimic gravity. Touching a "chain block" increases the repetition count for the "swing" ability by one. Press "P" to shoot out the "chain monster" and swing forward. If you swing across correctly, you'll touch the next "chain block" and if you keep pressing "P", you'll swing all the way across to safety. If you don't time it correctly, then you'll fall.

A discussion of the precise techniques at play will follow.

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Links

Swinging freely in Alan Caudel's Bionic ComMANd

• The Game-Maker Story: Infoboxes (Gamasutra)
• Alan's Bold Experiments in RSD Game-Maker

Downloads

• Bionic ComMANd (74 KB)