Elevander of the Emu Express

A 2D platformer where you must hop, flap and dash your way around an island to deliver mail to the locals. Made with Brainoid & Spacey3D for LD53.

https://honestdan.itch.io/elevander-of-the-emu-express

Elevander was our first 2D platformer that we’d worked on together on in Unreal Engine. The key strengths of this game was the gorgeous 2D art along with hard-to-master movement mechanics. As our main character was a Prairie Chicken, rather than run and jump as you would in regular platformers – the player could only hop or jump. Whilst mid air, they could also glide or flap their wings to fly, though being a Prairie Chicken they had a very limited amount of stamina for flying.

The game was generally well received. The biggest pain point was getting people familiar with the controller, although the intention of the game was to create a hard-to-master controller, that allowed for replay-ability and high-score chasing.