Hey all! I've been building False Negative, a browser platformer, and it's reached the point where I need fresh eyes on it.
Playable Link: 🎮 Play it (free, in the browser): https://scare32222.itch.io/false-negative
Platform: Browser
Description: You play as a sentient AI crossing a series of worlds to track down and shut off a rogue AI that has taken over the city's systems. Each world is its own district, and the systems in it are actively working against you.
Free to Play Status:
- Free to play
The core of the game is traps, and lots of different kinds of them!!
What's done
- 20 levels across 2 worlds:
- Signal Districts (levels 1–10): a neon city. Birthplace of the AI with the objective to reach the safehouse.
- Industrial District (levels 11–20): an abandoned works which holds a key
- Core loop: Keep trying till you succeed :)
- Gauntlet mode: all 20 levels in one run, with 5 lives for the whole thing - extremely difficult in my opinion. My best run till date for 20 levels is with 100 deaths. I cannot imagine someone doing it under 5
- Controls: keyboard, plus touch controls on phones (play in landscape).
What's still to come
- Story: the narrative is in my mind, but it isn't in the game yet. Right now it's pure gameplay.
- Music and sound: there's no audio at all yet.
- Polish: visual effects, menus, and difficulty tuning - I would love feedback on this
- More worlds: the plan goes well beyond two districts.
What I'd love feedback on
- Difficulty: where did you rage-quit, or come close? Which levels felt unfair rather than hard?
- Readability: did you understand what each trap would do before it killed you? If a trap felt like it came out of nowhere, that's a bug to me.
- Favourite and least favourite level, and why.
- Controls
- Most Importantly - Would you keep playing if it had story and music, or is something bigger missing?