I didn’t openly publicise the platform game I’ve been working on recently, though I did put it on my Projects page. Basically, Puff is a video game to go with the comic book I’m working on. After spending time playing Sonic games, I just had an overwhelming urge to play around with Game Maker. Playing around turned into utter smittenness. Therefore, I present to you the first tech demo of Puff!

Puff! First Tech Demo on Yoyo Games

If you install their player, you don’t even have to download and run it locally. Unfortunately, it only works with Windows.

The controls are: keyboard arrow buttons for left and right movement. Up arrow for flying upward, down arrow for ducking while on the ground. Space bar for flame breath attack, Enter for pause, Esc for Exit Game.

Do let me know what you think of it! It took a lot of work to get it the way it is (I had to develop controls, attacks, object behaviour, even where to stop falling – let alone all the different graphics for character poses and tiles. Game Maker is NOT for the faint of heart!).