Trippin' Songhai (2013)

A teenager explores a strange new world and must help out a king.

This is a game I built during university (2012-2013) in my early 20's for a game design class. We had to design the game on paper only, but I decided to have a go at creating something playable. This game wouldn't have been completed without the support of magicdweedoo.

I've uploaded the game design documents I submitted during my years at university. Whilst I can clearly see that I didn't actually achieve much of what I set out to do in them, I figured somebody might be interested in seeing them!

What is TrippinSonghai_2013_v1.0_original_unfair_release.zip?

This is the original 2013 release that has slippery physics problems and wasn't that great. Originally posted here: https://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/01/trippin-songhai-silbinary-wolf/

Differences between 2013 Trippin Songhai Release and the latest web version?

According to Git commit logs from 2017, I made the following fixes and changes to get the game working in Game Maker Studio and also changed how the game played to make it feel better.

• Fix Askia dialogue being cut off
• Improve friction so it applies quicker (making controls feel less slippery)
• Add skip intro option in title screen
• Change music from *.mid to *.wav (had issues playing otherwise)
• Fix camera offsets being incorrect on intro level/screen
• Changed/adjusted some collision rectangles to be more forgiving / less precise
• Fix pressing Z in title screen doing nothing
• Switch to "New audio engine" for better sound support in HTML5 
• Replace sound_* functions with new audio engine equivalent
• Global
  • Adjust hero jump power from 5 to 5.5 
  • Adjust hero friction from 0.2 to 0.35, so he speeds up quicker
  • Fix music not stopping for certain maps   
  • Fix sound not stopping on game restart
  • Change pause menu to allow level restarting
• rmCaveB    
  • Remove Bandit in cave near hard jumps and adjust other 2 bandits in spike section to be in a slightly easier position
•  rmForestD     
  • Fix ghost and ghostlord depth (from 0 to -5)     
  • Change ghost lord projectile so you can knock it back with your sword
• rmBoat   
  • Change objHeroBoat controls to not be this weird grid-based delay movement, feels better but makes the game much easier
  • Adjust various sprites to use NON-PRECISE collision so things don't get stuck
• Fix collision in rmDock (end piece of the dock had no collision so you fell through)
• Remove F4 from controls for HTML5 version
• Change pause menu text to say "Press X to quit" always, so people dont get confused with it meaning "restart level
• Change MountainForestFloor sprite to use rectangle collision (non-precise)
• Game quit changes (didnt commit from 2 years ago)
  • The actual changes are making the engine detect if the game is in a browser, if it is and you quit the game, it just stops all music and goes back to the menu

This version is the original Game Maker 8.1 EXE file.