It’s 1924 and you’re trying to make in big in Hollywood as a movie star. But you have to start somewhere, so you work as a director’s assistant’s assistant and move up the ladder.
\nExperience the fast paced movie industry under the wing of 4 terrible bosses who will give you 13 increasingly terrible stunt jobs to perform. Can you survive the pressure? Watch out for level 13!
\nAny resemblance to real people or events is entirely intentional.
\n🕹Controls: WASD, ZQSD or Arrows and follow the instructions on each micro-game
In story mode, each boss has a set of fast paced micro-games to play. Your progress will be saved so you don’t have to repeat from the first boss if you die.\nIn endless mode, you can play all 13 levels in increasing difficulty and in random order.
\nThe melody was adapted from “Batty McFaddin” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons
\n","source":"lopis/thirteen-terrible-stunts","stars":2,"dc":"https://lopis.github.io/thirteen-terrible-stunts/","comments":[{"at":378816296,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Really nice style, love the simple but fun graphics. Like the concept of repeating the same tasks (mini games) over and over with little changes.
\nThe landing safe was quite tough, thats what caught me out mostly, like when I got to level up I could literally climb the ladder :D
\nNice entry, lots of fun!
\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"at":378821513,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"I love this so much!\nThe music, the graphics, the peppy UI, oh it’s just perfect!
\n","games":["Economy of Motion"]},{"at":378915188,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Really cool. There’s a strange feature with the land safe mission where you can sometimes fall between the carriages but land safely :)
\n","games":["Badluck Butter Chicken Goes To Outer Space","Badluck Butter Chicken Flies The Unfriendly Skies"]},{"typ":1,"at":378948541,"re":378915188,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"I mean, so long as you land safely, you’ve succeeded. That’s what sells popcorn!
\n"},{"at":378931425,"author":"Antonio Salvati","login":"salvan13","gh":260311,"url":"https://salvan13.github.io/","twitter":"salvan13","text":"love the classic look and feel and the music, story and minigames are fun, brilliant!
\n","games":["Kyabetsu"]},{"at":378967770,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"I love the whole feeling of this game. The great music and classic look. The minigames are very simple but it does not detract. I laugh every time I have to fetch coffee.
\n","games":["Wendol Village"]},{"at":378977160,"author":"Homer Dilpleu","login":"HomerDilpleu","gh":66157330,"text":"This game is very fun and it made me laugh a lot! I love the style and the music which fits the game perfectly. The endless mode is cool to discover all the different levelf: it is perfect for people, like me, who does not land safely :)
\n","games":["Unloved 13"]},{"at":379060560,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"What a neat and fun to play collection of minigames!
\nI love the music and the feeling of beeing a tiny wheel in the silent-film industry, back then.\nThe controls are on point.
\nA very well made game!\nHad much fun as aspiring hollywood star “Buster Keaton” :-)
\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"at":379134981,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"Haha this is a fun one, I love how it speed up!
\n","games":["13 Seconds To Midnight"]},{"at":379316754,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"I loved the career mode idea, but I was always getting the same stunt (the train one), which almost made me quit the game. Then in endless mode I saw all the cool stunts. I think they should be in the career mode from the beginning.
\nI missed some audio fx but overall it was quite nice.
\n","games":["Deep13"]},{"typ":1,"at":379537443,"re":379316754,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Actually there are sound effects, but because it’s a silent film, you couldn’t heard them! :)
\n"},{"at":379404355,"author":"IroncladDev","login":"IroncladDev","gh":50180265,"url":"https://connerow.dev/","twitter":"IroncladDev","text":"Interesting concept with the minigames, but the repetition easily gets old.
\n","games":["Salvadoran Reclamation: MS-13"]},{"at":379487815,"author":"Markus Fisch","login":"markusfisch","gh":485246,"url":"http://www.markusfisch.de","text":"That game made me smile! Lovely graphics and music!
\n","games":["Lost City Of S"]},{"at":379497331,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"Fun! I made it to the 3rd “speedup”, and then things got crazy. It was great to watch your progress on Slack over the competition, and to see the addition of more mini games, and more polish. Sound effects and music are perfect for the game, excellent choice. Great job overall!
\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"at":379510532,"author":"Lewis Nakao","login":"lewdev","gh":1469960,"url":"https://lewdev.github.io","twitter":"lewdev","text":"Very fun Warioware-style mini games in low-pixel art to the theme of working for a Hollywood studio. The animations are fluid and rewarding for completing the mini games. I think I experienced every game and they were very creative and mostly fair.
\nThe story mode was too hard, so I went for the endless mode and found that you can play more of the mini games there. The one game that I felt was unfair was the falling house wall. You would only figure it out how to win after losing a few times knowing generally where you need to be. Sometimes the controls were too tight so I’d move too quickly.
\nA slight acceleration in movement before going top speed would help with allowing players to move in smaller increments. But other great mechanics like floating off the edge and late jumps off the edge were there, so that helped.
\n","games":["13attle TanKs"]},{"typ":1,"at":379537737,"re":379510532,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you for the feedback. It was the first time I’ve implemented a platformer from scratch, so your feedback about the movement is very valuable.
\nI guess you have a point with the falling house level. I tried to have different mechanics, and there’s only 2 levels where you die if you don’t act quick: the falling house and the wheel. I think both suffer from that problem, but on the other hand, that’s a feeling I often felt when playing WarioWare. I’ll try to make it more clear from the get go in a future iteration.
\n"},{"at":379557160,"author":"Leo Kuo","login":"leokuo0724","gh":40346834,"url":"https://medium.com/@leokuo0724","twitter":"leokuo0724","text":"I love how the game offers so many mini-games, each with a fresh and unique experience. I can also sense the creator’s humor throughout the game! The music is also quite fun. Overall, it’s very well done!
\n","games":["Templar's Final Stand"]},{"at":379571739,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"Well made, art is good and musics fits the mood.\nGameplay could use some variety/complexity, though.\nEDIT: Why have you removed half of the level types from the story mode!?\nI assumed that’s all, and would vote accordingly, if I’d not notice a mention of more level types in the comments.
\n","games":["Terra Mobilis","Triskaidekagenesis"]},{"typ":1,"at":379639528,"re":379571739,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"But I haven’t removed them! Simply each of the 4 bosses has a subset of all the levels, so if you play the whole story mode you will see all the levels. I did it like that because a) I thought it would be too much to have all 13 microgames at once to learn how to pass, as testers complained the game was already too hard, b) I wanted all bosses to provide some level of freshness to the game.
\nIn a future iteration, I would like each boss to actually have 13 distinct microgames, for a total of 13x4=52, but that was impossible to achieve in the limited time and space, so I settled for 13 games split among the 4 bosses (with some repetitions).
\n"},{"at":379632450,"author":"Jure Triglav","login":"jure","gh":238667,"url":"https://juretriglav.si","twitter":"juretriglav","text":"Ha, super fun game! Endless mode is a lot more fun than story mode, due to the much increased variety, which might not be obvious from the choices available.
\nReally nice gameplay, polished graphics and style, and solid minimalistic but fitting music and sound effects. The link to the theme is not the strongest, but it’s there.
\nOverall a great entry, congrats!
\n","games":["The Dandelion Wars","plusminus13"]},{"typ":1,"at":379639738,"re":379632450,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Story mode has all the same games as endless mode, but each boss only has about 5 distinct microgames, as I wanted the story to feel fresh with new games as you progress.
\nI guess I forgot that most people would not play the whole story mode (granted, it’s pretty tough even for me haha), so I should have made the first and second bosses more engaging. I’m taking notes :)
\n"},{"at":379742181,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Nice game warriorware like. Mini games are pretty simple to learn. I just failed so many times on the landing one.\nNice sound and graphics vibe!
\n","games":["13 Steps to Escape"]},{"at":379849313,"author":"Alexey Kalmakov","login":"rndD","gh":850302,"text":"João, it’s great entry! I love that someone finally implemented a game in 13k in this genre.
\nThe difficulty curve is insane, the game is hard, but I bet you already know that.
\nGreat music and the tempo of the game, everything works exactly as I expected. Putting all those mini games + story in 13k is astonishing, job.
\n","games":["Data Warrior: 13kb limit"]},{"typ":1,"at":379881695,"re":379849313,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you so much, and yeah, I know! 🥹 For my director’s cut I’m working on smoothing that entry barrier before I absolutely destroy the player.
\n"},{"at":379887350,"author":"Alex Delderfield","login":"AD-Edge","gh":3481465,"url":"www.delta-edge.com.au","twitter":"Alex_ADEdge","text":"A solid little game build around the theme. I like the theme integration with this one, and the strong gameboy throwback style.
\nMusic worked well, story mode is interesting and a good challenge. Kept me engaged for quite some time. And amusing that some of the stunts were just terrible, and ended in a quick but amusing demise. Impressed you basically put a stack of minigames into your entry overall!
\n","games":["The Anti-Poker Protocol"]},{"at":379899742,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"This is just so fun. Love the style and the humour and the simplicity.
\n","games":["Get the Flock Outta Here"]},{"at":380022266,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Quite a fun little game full of mini games.
\nSome of the mini games were really fun, others challenging.
\nI like the silent movies meets warioware vibe.
\nThe music was pretty good, as were the minimal graphics.
\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"at":380095129,"author":"Miguel Ángel Pérez Martínez","login":"zlash","gh":1052438,"twitter":"zurashu","text":"As a Wario Wares fan, I loved to see this done! Great job!!
\n","games":["Escape from Planet XIII"]},{"at":380154843,"author":"Michel Sabchuk","login":"michelts","gh":361492,"url":"http://turbosys.com.br","text":"I loved the music! At first I thought the game was a little too fast, but once you get used to it and the game becomes very fun!
\n","games":["Thirteen Truco"]},{"typ":1,"at":380158259,"re":380154843,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"If you ever play the WarioWare games, it’s supposed to be fast! :D
\n"},{"at":380190092,"author":"Samuel van Egmond","login":"SamuelVanEgmond","gh":95985602,"text":"This is one of the best games I’ve played this year. Fun graphics, varied gameplay, many very different minigames.
\nCongratulations on a great entry!
\n","games":["The King's Crowns"]},{"at":380198418,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"The music is really addictive. It helped me stay in game.\nThe coffee mini game is my favorite one. Reminds me a lot of Wario Ware.
\nI tried endless mode as well, and I think the variations in endless mode help hook the player and get their attention.
\n","games":["Bubble Burst"]},{"typ":1,"at":380332975,"re":380198418,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Yup. I already took this advice from other players and restructured the story mode in the director’s cut to provide more variety earlier in the story instead of spreading out the new levels equally.
\n"},{"at":380318058,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"Very cool idea, great music, great graphics!
\n","games":["DECK 13"]},{"at":380365201,"author":"Zark Attack","login":"Noah-Zark-22","gh":181499250,"text":"I had fun playing! Loved the graphics and the old-film/cuphead style. The tea/coffee staining of the white background is perfect. Music was good, and speeding up the tempo really made me feel the pressure. My biggest complaint would be DAVE. That guy sucks! Nice entry!
\n","games":["Primonumerophobia"]},{"at":380429088,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Love the style and the WarioWare style gameplay. However, you have to account for different screen refresh rates. I have a 120hz monitor so the game was double speed for me and extremely difficult to control. I’m guessing some of the other reviews complaining of the speed also had the same issue.
\nThis was a rare game where I liked the concept and polish enough to go right click on my desktop, choose display settings, choose advanced settings, choose 60hz, wait for screen to reset, choose “Keep”, and then go back to the game and try again. Then do that all again to revert my changes back to the correct refresh rate. But I shouldn’t have to do that.
\nI think that one little fix would have helped a lot because not everyone will know to do that, and may think the game is just too fast? Still, I think it’s a very good entry.
\n","games":["13th Floor"]},{"typ":1,"at":380490440,"re":380429088,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"That’s odd, because I did take into account different refresh rates? I’m both limiting the frame rate as well as doing all animations and timers relative to the time delta. I’ll have to investigate why this is still an issue. Thanks a lot for the report
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":380483881,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"I love mini games! Quite a few of them were really fun. The music and the choice of palette also help set the mood of a 1924 Hollywood silent movie with Charlie Chaplin or some other moviestar of that time.
\n"},{"at":380488452,"author":"Aleksey Litvinov","login":"mightyaleksey","gh":5006221,"url":"https://jsalterego.im/","text":"Very nice idea! And I like the storytelling aspect!
\nAlso noticed a small issue in safari (v17.6) — text and icons were not rendering at all for me, but in chrome it was good.
\nGood job and congratulations on the submission!
\n","games":["Spirit Hunter"]},{"typ":1,"at":380490239,"re":380488452,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you for the report. I don’t have access to safari, but i’ll try to investigate what’s going on and fix it in the directors cut.
\n"},{"at":380498141,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"A brilliant game, so much fun! Glorious visual style, too. Amazing work! 🤩
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