Waygate
A downloadable game for Windows
Waygate
Legends tell of an ancient kingdom which once wielded great power, all wiped away by a tragic betrayal. What remains now is a dangerous ruin, scarcely visited and almost forgotten.
Waygate is a 2D platformer in which the player explores the remains of an abandoned kingdom. Journey through the ruins in search of a mysterious artifact of legend - The Waygate.
Keyboard Controls
Movement
- WASD/Arrow Keys to move
- Space/X/C to jump
- Ctrl/Z to grab
Other
- M/Escape to open/close pause menu
- Backspace to retry
- Hold Ctrl + D to clear save file
- Hold Ctrl + D to skip intro cutscene
- (debug) Hold Ctrl + Backspace to teleport to the start of the current level. Hopefully you shouldn't need it, but it's here in case you get soft locked
- F11 to toggle fullscreen
Gamepad Controls
Gamepad support hasn't been fully tested so you might encounter some issues.
- Left Stick to move
- A to jump
- Trigger Buttons to grab
- Start to open/close pause menu
- Select to respawn
About
The original build of Waygate was created in 12 weeks as a solo student project, with the main goal of learning to create a 2D character controller from the ground up, as well as learning to use various tools in Unreal Engine.
Being my first large project, there's definitely some issues, but I've done my best to fix things up to have something to put out there. It'll be kept here as a demo, but is something I'd love to come back to as a full project one day in a more suitable engine.
I hope you enjoy playing.
Credits
Help with art assets by Shackhal
Music by Chris Logsdon and Slaleky
Text Font by Somepx
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Install instructions
Extract then run Waygate.exe
Comments
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Created an account to say how great your game is! Just finished the prototype and it was amazing. Celeste with a bit more floaty jump, but tighter than Super Meat Boy. I really like it, and though a bit simpler than those two games, I would put it on the same level fun and control-wise as those two.
If I had to criticise something, I'd say I found the momentum you gain from the moving blocks unintuitive. I only figured out after I finished almost all the puzzles using sheer trial-and-error in that section that you have to let go very late to gain the maximum speed boost.
Thank you! Celeste was definitely a huge inspiration design-wise so I'm glad to have captured some of that.
And that's an entirely fair criticism, in hindsight it probably would've been smoother if I'd introduced the moving blocks earlier on in a simpler way to let the player build up that intuition before throwing them into more complex situations.
Really addictive. Intuitive gameplay. Nice idea! Keep up the good work