Gum Gun

Shoot your Shot and Reach for victory!

Gum Gun is a 2D action puzzle platformer where you compete with another player to to reach the trophy at the very top of the map.
Mind your business and reach the top or actively sabotage your opponents rise for your own benefit... you decide!

This is an unfinished game so there are a few bugs, but still, I hope you enjoy playing it :)

CONTROLS - HOW TO PLAY
(please note that this games works best on a keyboard with a number pad)

Player 1:

• Left and Right to move
• Up to aim upwards
• Z to jump
• X to shoot
• C to Switch Ammo type.

Player 2:

• Num 4 and Num 6 to move
• Num 8 to aim upwards
• (,) [comma] to jump
• (.) [Period] to shoot
• (/) [Backslash] to Switch Ammo type

The smaller bullet is small and travels far. If the other player is hit with the smaller bullet while it is moving they will take damage. If their HP is reduced to 0 the player will be stunned for a few seconds. The small bullets can also destroy large bullets.

The larger bullet is slow and does not travel very far. It should be used to create platforms to get to the top. Only 5 large bullets of the same color can be created at a time. If the player tries to create a 6th large bullet, all the other existing large bullets of the same color will be destroyed, so please be careful.

DEVELOPMENT BACK STORY

Sometime in about 2011, I picked up the Construct 2 game engine and fell in love with it. I was having a hard time figuring out the logic based event system so I to recreate the Polar Star as a design challenge to help me learn to better use Construct 2.

Once I had the Polar Star programmed into the game, I thought: "GREAT! now what?"

What resulted was me trying to make a simple game centered around a Polar Star-like like gun that, rather than killing other player, would instead see them compete in a contest to create their own platforms. I loved the idea, I still do! But I had a hard time implementing it well. Especially since there are bugs I wasn't sure how to iron out.

Until about 2 days ago I thought this game was lost to time, forever gone, BUT!

I managed to find the exported HTML file for the game!

It brought me a great deal of joy to see this throwback so I wanted to share it with y'all. I'm considering this to be a dead idea but maybe one day I will continue to play with the idea of a competitive, platform-making, gum-shooting gun game..... we'll see!