Trichromatic! (Now with level editor!)

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:13 am

Three Colours is a game in development.

It is made of three colours.

Actually, more than three.

Red ball can only step on red platforms.
Green ball can only step on green platforms.
Blue ball can only step on blue platforms.

Skillfully change the color in mid-air to prevent the ball from falling.

And then, when does it get complicated?

Believe me, it does.

Maybe you can even guess how it works.

Maybe not.

We'll see.

Post comments and/or suggestions here.

ab-47 · Post by **ab-47** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:41 pm

That's one cool pic. and also in development

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boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:46 pm

This sounds super-fun.

I wish I could think of stuff like that. XD

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:49 pm

Nice idea. I too want to make a game like that which uses different game gimmicks.

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:54 pm

Whenever I try to use a "gimmic" the game allwas comes out too hard. :3

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:02 pm

I'm seeing yellow and purple blocks in the preview with arrows on them. It shows the ball was green when bouncing with the yellow arrow block.

Green and red mixed is yellow. So green and red can bounce when on a yellow block and not blue. The purple block can make red and blue bounce as purple is formed when those two colors are mixed and green does not bounce. Am I right?

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:22 pm

It's actually a bit more complicated than that.

highlight to see what I wrote:Look carefully - it's not yellow but orange, and not exactly purple but more purple-bluish.

Orange consists of 100% red, 50% green and 0% blue. When the ball is red, it bounces to a certain height; when it's green it bounces lower, and when it's blue it falls through.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:46 pm

Blast!10 wrote:It's actually a bit more complicated than that.

highlight to see what I wrote:Look carefully - it's not yellow but orange, and not exactly purple but more purple-bluish.

Orange consists of 100% red, 50% green and 0% blue. When the ball is red, it bounces to a certain height; when it's green it bounces lower, and when it's blue it falls through.

Mind = blown.

I rarely (if ever) download fan-made games from this forum... but this is one that I *must* have whenever it gets done.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:15 pm

I gonna play this when will be released.

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:43 pm

I love te concept. Download +1

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:04 pm

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:41 pm

If the game gets long enough we might implement online saving... stay tuned.

md · Post by md » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:05 am

I like it, neat idea.

I have an idea, why don't you make it that there are switches to change the ball's colour.

Then it will be a platform game and puzzle game mixed!

(just a suggestion)

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:27 am

The point is switching colours by pressing keys on your keyboard.

But it would be fun if a mask (?) suddenly changes the ball's colour.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:30 am

I'm getting some ideas. See attachment.

And yes, at the top of the picture is a place where you constantly have to change color without jumping.

(Fun fact: I speak [mostly] American English, and yet I can't imagine this game being named "Three Colors", as opposed to "Three Colours". I'm weird.)

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:36 am

So we see a blinking killer wall and impenetrable white walls. This is getting more and more epic. Now all we need is a few insanely difficult color-changing upward climbs and we're all set.

Also, what happens if you change your color to red while inside a red wall?

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:11 pm

There's probably a collision handler to just eject you upwards at ludicrous speed in times like that.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:21 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:There's probably a collision handler to just eject you upwards at ludicrous speed in times like that.

Too exploitable. You should either remain inside motionless until you change color again... or explode because two things cannot occupy one place at the same time.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:41 pm

It's actually a bit more complicated than that.

highlight to see what I wrote:If you're red and inside a red wall, you get stuck inside until you change color, unless only a small part of the top of the block is trapping you, in which case you can jump up to save yourself.*

* The "save yourself" part does not apply to certain evil cases.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:22 am

@Muzozavr: Is this good enough?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:27 am

Slightly not what I meant, but still awesome. I meant vertical corridors full of different tiles and you need to properly jump through tiles and then stay on them in order to ascend the corridor.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:05 pm

Nyrrrrrr.
I really hope you get to releasing this soon, even a demo, because you're teasing me with these screenshots. x3

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:56 pm

What he said. I'm out of Evil Toaster now and if I don't play a new platformer I'm gonna blow up by tomoro. *shot*

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:42 pm

Make yourself one then. *shot*

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:51 pm

*cough*Wonderland Platformer, Doodle World, We Brawl, Fanmade Toaster 1, Fanmade Toaster 8...*cough*

...

*shot*

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:52 pm

Blasted cough you have there. x3

But really, I'm quite psyched to play this. It's so complex considering how simplistic the idea is.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:47 am

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:23 am

Are those lasers? Awesome!

Do you have to turn it off with some button or can you pass through by color-changing?

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:02 am

You have to pass through by color changing – in this game, you don't need to think only about what color the ball is, but also about what color it isn't.

Technos72 · Post by **Technos72** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:38 pm

So the laser is cyan which is mixed with green and blue. Which is true?

- red cannot pass
- red can pass
- must be passed while blue is changing with green or vice versa