AAAAXY

There is no builtin level editor, however you can take the source code from https://github.com/divVerent/aaaaxy/ and look at it (and change stuff) in the Tiled editor (https://www.mapeditor.org/).

Yes, can confirm it :) it is in the section “Multi Party Authorization”.

You also find references to some other creators/streamers from the same community.

Many controllers are supported, a good list of “sure” working ones for desktop platforms here is here: https://github.com/gabomdq/SDL_GameControllerDB/blob/master/gamecontrollerdb.txt - although on Linux and Windows, any Xbox compatible USB controller will surely work, as well as many others.

However, this does not suppress arrows.

BTW, if you’re on Android, controller support is somewhat limited; it seems like it is also necessary for Android to recognize its layout, which it does not do for a controller I have (a cheap Xbox controller knockoff from Walmart). If you want to suppress the touch controls on Android, there’s a way but it involves ADB (there’s currently no setting for this) to change the settings JSON file to set “touch_force” to “false”. On the web, similarly your browser needs to be able to map it to the W3C standard layout, which is basically Xbox style.

The game requires at least the features a typical NES controller had; however it is implemented such that you can use any stick or d-pad on your controller, they’re all activated.

BTW you can port your savegame from Android or web to the desktop version as well, if desired; see instructions on https://divverent.github.io/aaaaxy/userguide.html under “data storage”.

At first you’re given a large platform. Carry it up until the top, but do NOT ride it up. Carry it down again instead, and you’ll be presented a small platform. Walk near it but do not grab it (or do, but it’ll make what comes later a bit harder). Carry the platform up again, and ride it up. The exit will be to the side but requires the large platform.

The room is named after a common theme of Super Mario Maker trolling, introduced by a level called “Larl Does Everything Twice Twice” - it’s actually not one room but many rooms that looks the same but aren’t.

I do not see Steam as an immediate goal mainly as I do not intend to monetize this game in any way and getting on Steam is a huge investment.

Having said that, most likely this game can already be run on a Steam Deck as I’ve seen instructions on how to install other non-Steam games on there; at the very least this game runs both on Linux natively and in WINE, so the same instructions as used for e.g. the Epic store should work. Maybe I should just buy a Steam Deck and write up instructions on how to install - it shouldn’t even be hard.

Thanks!

Yes, each path of Anti-Hub requiring two abilities at once is intentional - and all three sections make that rather clear at the beginning (that trampoline room is arguably weird, I added it specifically to subtly tell the player that they clearly lack something).

Taking out the trash is easy once one knows the trick - one can carry multiple platforms, and releasing two at once into the chute is perfectly safe and even three at once not dangerous but a little tricky.

Yes, the web version is more laggy than it should be, and I am working on optimizing further but especially the rendering I just can’t get faster there even if I turn off most CPU processing - so likely this issue is with Ebiten or the browser (BTW I get much better fps in Chrome than in Firefox). The native version also has some minor GC lags but they are hardly noticeable except when walking left/right a lot (e.g. in Hilbert’s Dotel). I do intend to reduce those further by reducing memory allocation, but they probably will never go away entirely (will follow Go updates though, soon gonna switch to Go 1.18 which has some GC improvements). If you have lots of RAM, GOGC can be set to have fewer GC pauses. If desired, I can help you export your savegame from the web version to the local one.

There are only few parts that actually require strong platforming skills, primarily in two of the Anti-Hub sections which I intended to be rather hard (one of the three OTOH is easier but takes longer). You did get past the race section, which tells me you have what it takes :)

Thanks for compliments on the level design - I’d describe the design philosophy mostly as influenced by Antichamber, VVVVVV and Super Mario Maker troll levels, while being a math nerd. You really shouldn’t check out the game I made when I was 16 though, but well, there’s a reason it’s not on Itch ;)

To be clear, the universal cover property is mostly true; there are a few places where portals are enabled/disabled at runtime (in particular the places where one goes back and something changes in the previous place), and thus the topology is actually changed. In most cases the property is actually true, and things actually do change when you go around the hole (e.g. if the annulus contains a platform, you would be able to hold on to this platform and get a second one when you get to the “same” place again, and the existence of both objects together proves that the old and new place is not fully identical).

But you are right, the proper word, to be exact, is topology, although “non-euclidean topology” isn’t quite the right term either. https://hyperbolica.fandom.com/wiki/Fake_Non-Euclidean_Geometry is a quite good description.

HOWEVER, it isn’t Euclidean geometry either - e.g.

A list of things that have been mistakenly claimed as violating Euclid’s 5th postulate “for any line A and point B, there is exactly one unique line that crosses B but not A” is here:

is actually violated a few times accidentally, although not by every use of portals. Furthermore, from Euclid’s axioms, it follows that a line segment is the shortest path between two points, which is absolutely untrue in all “R^n with portals” worlds due to a trivial counterexample.

Feedback taken though, I will look for a better way to describe this. Thanks!

A fun fact is that everything (except for a bunch of obvious dead ends that tell you so, and which this game does not include in "100%" for that reason) can be played entirely seamlessly without ever going to the checkpoint map.

This is rather hard though and it takes some specific trickery to reach the end this way.

That was indeed one influence - and yes, the very first room is rather obviously a reference to it (but also to typical Mario hack/maker game trolling, and also serves to explain that there is no real "death" in this game) :)