One Button, One Life, One Direction

You only have one button, one life, and one direction to go. How far will you make it?

Combine taps and holds to activate different skills and navigate this world full of obstacles and deadly enemies.

Instructions

Tap or hold [Space] to activate skills.

[Escape] to exit the game.

• Tap - Shot
• Hold - Run 
• Tap, Hold - Jump
• Hold, Tap - Melee 
• Hold, Hold - Dash

You can chain skills together

Development Details

One Life, One Button, One Direction was made for the GMTK Jam 2019. The theme was "Only One". The concept for this game was using combo'ing a single button to achieve unique effects. 

However, after prototyping for a bit the game feel wasn't that great especially the movement system. I had to remove one of the skills (shielding) to implement continuous movement for finer control as dashing into obstacles was very unwieldy. 

Having a more traditional side-scrolling infinite runner (eg. CANABALT) would have been a better approach forcing the player to think quickly and also freeing movement skills for something more interesting.

I only had a few hours to work on this project and while it didn't have the greatest feel, I had a lot of fun brainstorming and making it!