N++

An impossible platformer, 10 years in the making

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An impossible platformer, 10 years in the making

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Maker

@jacqvon thank you! the UI is something we spent a lot of time on (probably about a year total), honestly it was the result of struggling with our first design for 6 months, realizing that it was doomed, then stealing the best bits and building something new out of them :) We were helped by inspiring concept work from graphic designer MASA and a beautiful font by Fabrizio Schiavi ;)

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

The menu UI is super unique! How did you guys end up with the design of that?

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11yr ago

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Maker

hey Russ -- @maresheppard's logged in but not able to post..

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11yr ago

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Maker

@raiganburns @jacqvon whoops, sorry jacqvon -- I replied to you in the main thread! (i'm a noob..)

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11yr ago

Accidental Tech Podcast - Uncomfortable in My Pants

Hunter

@raiganburns Mare should be good to go know, so long as she uses hers own Twitter to log in. Sorry about that!

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11yr ago

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Maker

@russfrushtick @jacqvon she :) and I was logged in as Metanet. oops! anyway here I am now :)

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11yr ago

Accidental Tech Podcast - Uncomfortable in My Pants

Hunter

@maresheppard lol yes, sorry, long day! I honestly frequently transpose both of your names even though we've met multiple times. the perils of genderless/awesome names :)

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11yr ago

Backchannel

the colors are so intense - i'm into it. can you talk about the inspiration behind it?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@eriktorenberg honestly that was something we struggled with a lot, because we didn't want to ruin the playability of the original grey. Thankfully the graphic designer we worked with, MASA, really wanted to try colours, and then we just sort of started experimenting and iterating, and eventually figured out what worked :)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@raiganburns @eriktorenberg one of the main inspirations was "we want our screenshots to look beautiful, instead of boring grey than no one understands" ;)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@eriktorenberg concretely, we were inspired by everything from infographics to landscape paintings to other games. The colour scheme "F7200" is based on the colours of Wipeout 3, "Oceanographer" is inspired by parts of The Life Aquatic, there are a few colour schemes based on different programming colour schemes we use (eg Solarized)... really we just tried everything we could think of and then kept what worked and refined it :)

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

What modes/maps would you recommend for the maximum amount of local MP fun?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@lejlahunts probably Race is the most fun.. the first person to the exit gets a rocket that they can try to steer into their opponents ;)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@raiganburns @lejlahunts my favourite race level is "you can't always depend on the kindness of lasers", I highly recommend it ;)

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11yr ago

Luma AI

Any design elements (obstacles/enemies) that were cut that you can talk about?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@gravicle sure! There were a bunch of things that just didn't work at all as soon as we added them, but one thing that we kept trying was "tiny deathball", sort of a micro version of the deathball that's in the game. The normal deathball follows your position slowly, so it's always sort of trailing behind you; for the small one, we wanted it to be scary, so we made it follow your *future* position -- i.e it predicts where you'll be in a second or two and moves there. The problem was.. it was too good. It was pretty uncanny really, no matter how we tuned it, it would either be ineffectual, or insanely terminator-like in its ability to kill you. I'm still hoping we can play around with that idea in future games, but we couldn't get it working in time for N++.

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11yr ago

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Maker

We'll answer Russ' questions in between other ones.. one sec! :)

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

This looks like something I will love and hate. 😜

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11yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover one of our marketing slogans is "N++: Those that love it, hate it." :)

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