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Mort The Intern

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Platformer

Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux

Languages: English

Players: Single-player

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Aug 30, 2012 @ 11:13am

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In Pursuit of Fire

January 17th, 2013 - mitDebo

I have a confession to make. If you've played the first area of Mort - and there's no reason why you shouldn't, since I'm offering a free demo of it - you'll notice there's a whole slew of spikes for you to avoid. However, originally I didn't want those hurdles to be spikes at all; I wanted it to be plumes of fire. After all, half of the game takes place in Hell, so it only makes sense that you'd need to contend with fire and brimstone.

Unfortunately, I am not the most accomplished artist. In fact, to be frank, I would consider myself to be quite unskilled when it comes to the arts. Every time that I attempted to animate a cool looking fire sprite, it always came out looking terrible. At the time I was finalizing those levels, I was racing against the clock, trying to finish up enough to submit the game to a number of festivals. Frustrated with my inability to animate, I went with the good old standby of spikes instead.

Fast forward several months later. This week, I saw on IndieDB an article for a game I've been following, and in it, I was extremely impressed with the way they handled animating fire. You can see that article here. (And honestly, if you're not following Path to the Sky, you really should. It looks amazing). I felt a rush of inspiration, and briefly ditching all the coding I've done recently, I played around with Unity's particle systems to see if maybe that was the solution to my inability to render good looking fire.

This was the result:

I may write up a tutorial on how I achieved this with Unity, but needless to say, I'm quite happy with it. I can't wait to rebuild those levels with the fire I always intended for them to have.

Unity Version Up on Desura

January 14th, 2013 - mitDebo

The beginnings of the reworked Unity version of Mort is now available on Desura. Now, when you launch the game, you should be given the choice of playing the original XNA version of the game, or selecting the Unity version. If you do not see this, you'll need to delete and then reinstall the game for the changes to take effect (sorry about that!)

So, what's new in this version?

From a gameplay perspective, not a whole lot unfortunately. Instead, this release focused a lot on behind the scenes stuff that while useful, doesn't really result in a lot of new content for you, the player. However, the changes include:

Ability to choose your own screen resolution, and to change between full screen and windowed mode. Non-16:9 resolutions will be letterboxed to 16:9, since the design of the levels depend on that resolution.
Remapping of keys. Don't want to use X to jump? Simply remap it!
Gamepad support. Play a platformer the way it's meant to be played: with controller in hand.
Adjust music and sound effect volumes
Adjust text scroll speed (though this version of the game has no text to see yet)

It may not sound like much, but it's stuff that people will surely appreciate in their game. I also have a sandbox area if you fire up a "new game" which will spawn Mort in a small room that you're welcome to jump and swing around.

This update isn't completely void of content, however. If you grab a wall in the game, you'll notice a new wall slide animation:

You'll also a new character, one of the many people you'll be meeting on your journey:

Hope you enjoy the new stuff, and I look forward to start showing off the level editor soon!

Description

*** UPDATE Sep 18, 2012 ***
A demo is now available. Please check the link below.

http://www.desura.com/games/mort-the-intern

Remember your first job?
Afterlife Ferries, LLC, is the premier company for handling all of your afterlife destination needs. Their newest intern is Mort, a feisty young soul eager to begin his career. However, Mort is finding that the life of an intern isn't all it's cracked up to be. Already detesting his work - which mostly consists of doing crap no one else wants to do - he gets his big break when it's discovered that a mix-up has sent a number of souls to their wrong intended afterlife destination. Mort's boss, wanting this sorted out as quickly and quietly as possible, sends Mort to resolve this unfortunate error. It's still not a glamorous job; the terrain of the afterlife isn't the most work friendly. But it could be the break Mort needs.

Enough of that, how does it play?

Yep, it's yet another Indie 2D Platformer.
Fluid, automatic grapple hook mechanics. You don't need to worry about your aim, as the grapple hook automatically locks on
Certain grapple points temporarily enhance Mort's abilities! Double jumps, switches, and more are embedded in the swing points.
Non-linear exploration. Explore Heaven and Hell at your own pace, looking for the misplaced souls.
Hand drawn comic book pages, for story points and stuff
Spikes!
Around eight tough as nails areas planned, plus an undetermined number of HARD MODE levels
And lava!
Amazing soundtrack by Jimmy Hinson, co-composer on Mass Effect 2, and composer for multiple indie game such as Pax 10 finalist, PuzzleJuice.

Your levels suck! Can I make my own?
Yes, a comprehensive level editor is currently in the works. I'm hoping to get as much feedback from the community as possible to make it the best level editor I can.

Is there a demo?
Yes, there is! A demo can be downloaded at Desura.

http://www.desura.com/games/mort-the-intern

OMG, this is awesome! Take my money!
The game is actually currently available in Desura's alphafunding program. For the duration of the game being in alpha, it'll be on sale for 30% off. If you really are interested in the game, and want to help out an aspiring developer mold a game to be the best it can possibly be, then head over here:

http://www.desura.com/games/mort-the-intern

OMG, this is terrible! You shouldn't even be making games!
That's a pretty mean thing for you to say. Please keep in mind that the game is very much in a very early alpha state, and there are a number of things that need to be improved. For instance, a lot of the art in the game is also currently in the process of being redone. If this game isn't your thing, that's fine. But if it mildly interests you, I welcome any sort of constructive feedback that will make the game better!

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