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Project: A Man With a Monocle
Project Started: 11th August, 2009 Last Update: 14th September, 2010
Project Owner: Johnny Look Project Members:
Project Type: Adventure Platformer game Project Progress:
More Info: http://amanwithamonocle.neogen2.com Faves: 14

New Feature: The Iron Monocle
Posted 7th Mar 10, by Johnny Look  
Here's another idea I had which I think could be interesting as well as add a lot of replayablity.

In some games there is the Iron Man difficulty mode where you have to go through the whole game without ever dieing, if you do you'll have to restart it all over again.
It can be very frustrating if you fail, but reaching the end can also be incredibly satisfying.

So my idea was taking that mode and putting it into AMWAM with a few slight modifications. The game is rather large and is already pretty hard to beat with unlimited lives so the player will have one extra life point (other the one you can unlock by getting a certain number of golden bones, so you start with 3 and can end the game with 4) to make sure it's actually possible to reach the end without ever dieing (though believe me, it will still be very hard).

To make things more interesting, this mode will feature new levels that aren't in the main game but dieing means the game is over and it will reset the save file automatically (and right after you die) so no cheating is possible.

However, and to make sure the experience is as satisfying and rewarding as possible, by beating the game in this mode you'll be able to unlock the alternative ending to the game and it's own cutscene.

I haven't undecided if I will allow this mode to be available in the beginning or if it will be an unlockable feature, but the last one is the most likely option.

In other news, the site for the game is almost finished, nothing outstanding but it will do.

Posted by OMC 7th March, 2010

Interesting idea. Actually that "Suddenly has an idea" I posted in the last devlog might be useful. The art style doesn't really match, but the idea kind of does.

http://jollycrouton.com/Uploads/images/MechanicalMonocle640.jpg

Ignore the crappy words, I didn't spend much time on them. Is the art style too different for that to be useful to the project? Kind of makes me think "Iron Monocle"...
 
Posted by Marko 7th March, 2010

I wanna play this so much!!
 
Posted by Johnny Look 7th March, 2010

omc: Mmmmh the art style isn't all that different, I'll have to experiment with it and see if it fits. I can easily see this in the "You unlocked the Iron Monocle mode !" screen.
If I use it I'll leave your name in the credits, of course. Thanks a bunch !

marko: hehe then you'll be pleased to know you won't have to wait much longer to play it.
 
Posted by OMC 7th March, 2010

If you'd like I can send a version without the black background and words.
 
Posted by Johnny Look 8th March, 2010

That would be great, thanks !
 
Posted by BeamSplashX 9th March, 2010

Oh man (or should I say, MY WORD!) this is looking better all the time. TIGSource will eat this up if they know what's good for them.
 
Posted by Johnny Look 10th March, 2010

hehe thanks, actually I had a game of mine feature in their frontpage along with the other entries for the Edge compo which I kind of started myself, but it would be really awesome to see amwam feature it's own newspost. But even it doesn't, I'll love them anyway.
 


 



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