fox flux DELUXE

fox flux DELUXE is a puzzle-platformer about being a little cartoon fox who turns into things rather easily.  Sometimes that's quite helpful for puzzling and/or platforming!  Other times, it is...  less helpful. Along the way you may also contest with elaborate contraptions, play a completely unrelated minigame, or decide to ignore all of that and just grab all the candy in sight.  But keep your eye on the prize: you've gotta collect enough hearts to rescue your girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by...  herself.  Don't worry about it. about the game The game is still a 🚧 work-in-progress 🚧, but there's a fully functional demo of the first few levels!  That should be enough to whet your appetite, and maybe even give you a few hours of running around. A few features are accelerated so you can play with them early; a few others have been cut out because um I didn't finish them yet.  But the important stuff is there. The original iteration of this game was fox flux , a jam game from way back in 2017.  I've been plugging away at this version on and off ever since — and it's taken a while because I had to take some detours to do stuff like learn to draw .  The jam game was very nearly the first pixel art I ever made! Here is an obligatory bulleted list of features: Transform into stuff, and back again (hopefully) Solve little puzzles — or avoid little puzzles, if you prefer Navigate your way around various thingamajigs that might react to different variants of you in different ways Make your way through the world entirely non-violently because what kind of monster would go around stomping on wildlife Bump into large bees Play an old arcade minigame to earn little bonus artwork Visit Star Anise's shop for the best deals on whatever he found lying around Push a big rock Collect treasures that go into a satisfying grid where you can look at them Wonder how the fuck you're supposed to get that star I don't know when this will be finished — there's a lot to do, and this is largely a one-fox operation.  But if you're "hype" (as the kids say) you can chip in on my Patreon to get new builds of the game irregularly; tell me when I totally broke something; and even join the secret Discord channel where I've already spoiled the plot.  You can also check out: the dev logs I post here (which I think you might get emailed about if you follow my itch account , maybe?) my bluesky where sometimes i talk about gamedev and sometimes i make dumb jokes instead the Discord channel I might update the demo with some missing  features  later on — stuff like music and a useful options menu — but won't be adding any more  levels or story.  If you want more of those, you'll have to either pledge, or wait until I finish! playing The controls are currently a little dubious and can't be rebound (yet), but I've been playing with them for months, so they can't be that bad!  They're mostly prompted in-game, but in case you forget: arrow keys to move spacebar to jump + select in menus E to interact F to use a special ability R to use an inventory item Esc for menu F11 to toggle fullscreen Gamepads also work, in theory. The game saves automatically. known issues Some sound effects and special-purpose music tracks are missing.  Making those is hard whoa Any art you don't like is a work in progress I didn't do a Mac or Linux build yet sorry It is possible, though considerable effort and ingenuity, to render some levels unwinnable.  This is a feature.  I'm not your mom Personally I think the farm level might be a bit too long but that's just more game for you to enjoy I guess tech notes Linux, Mac, and 32-bit Windows users: you want to install LÖVE 11.x either from the LÖVE website or your package manager, grab the .love file, and drag the latter onto the former.  Or run `love fox-flux-deluxe.love` in a terminal, if appropriate. (Note that official releases of LÖVE up through 11.4 have a bug that can cause rare but erratic behavior, including sporadic crashes and the complete failure of collision detection.  This is fixed in 11.5, and in the Windows build here.)