Unbeaten 1bit

Control Keys:

• Cursor Keys to move around.
• Space bar to jump
• Z to Kick
• X to Hit

Credits:

• Made during and for B1TJAM
  • Tune by RoseBurrow - https://roseburrow.itch.io/.
  • Code by CursorKeys.
  • Sprite Graphics by CursorKeys.
  • Tile Graphics by CursorKeys.
  • Background Graphics by CursorKeys, photos, post-processed.
• Made before the Jam
  • GameEngine by Cursorkeys
  • Sounds by FilmCow - https://filmcow.itch.io/filmcow-sfx

The story:
You are the main hero of the game. You will have to go through several levels of fighting to find your princess and rescue her.
(Note: The jam version will not show the princess or the guards. You will have to imagine them, sorry, time was up.:)

After beating enemies, you progress to the next level. After so many levels have been cleared you will encounter the guards which you must finally defeat in order to free the princess.

Technical and esthetics:

The game is written so that there will always only be 2 colors on the game-screen. This is to mimic old machines, and limitations spark creativity.

In "unbeaten", there are many hidden shades of gray. And these are being shown using a technique called dithering. I am using "temporal dithering", to make the dithering pattern evolve over time, to add for extra effect. This also has been invented out of a limitation. I was coding a shader for the dithering, and found it so much easier to use many time the sinus function, then actual floyd stein-berg dithering. But it looked always a bit off, so I experimented by adding time to the sinus functions, and this resulted in the resulting pattern.

You can see the code of the shader here on shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/33B3Rw

Limitations:

In some very few edge cases there is anti-aliasing, when there should not be.  You need to really look for it. I have no idea why this is, or I would have removed it.

• The game will not work on normal speed if your screen refresh rate is very high (ie. > 100 FPS) 

Feedback:

If you like the game, please drop me a comment below.  It will make my day, thank you!
If you want to discuss further development of the game,  jump over to my discord server here:  https://discord.gg/XHptfQcS7d