Hello everyone,

The past few weeks I've been working on something called Single Image Platformer. At first glance it's a simple pixel art platform game in which you have to collect a certain amount of objects in order to unlock the exit and finish the game.

What makes it special is that you can customize this game just by altering a single image file!
You decide what the player looks like, what objects (s)he has to collect, what monsters (s)he encounters and even what the level looks like!

Try out the default game, download the image template and follow the instructions to make the game your own!

Check it out here: Single Image Platformer





Note: The game's features are intentionally limited to make customization simple and fun, it is in no way meant to be or become a serious gamedev tool. The instruction guide is a draft and will be reworked in the future.

Thanks :D Alright, sent it in as news (didn't know about that feature) :)

Just clicking "Default game" should work... And press Enter or Space on the title screen. Use the arrow keys to control the character. In case none of this works then tell me what browser you're using and what exactly you see.

I thought of having Press Space/Enter on the title screen but then this should also be in the game image (so people can customize it too so the font fit the style of the game) and there's not much room left ^^'
I did a quick update so now Arrow Keys, WASD, Space and Enter works on the title screen, now you can also move the character with WASD ;) I might add an "Any Key" check later on.
I will, thanks in advance :)

There are a lot of colors in the palette for all the combinations of an object and what background should be drawn behind it ;)

For example: The 20 green colors at the top of the palette are for the player's start position, the group of light colors is to make the hero face left and the group of darker colors are to make the hero face right.

I put the palette together to more or less have them line up with the layout of the image.

I know the explanation in the instruction guide isn't very clear but as there isn't too much interest in this little project I haven't taken the time yet to write a better guide.

Sure, I'll make the game reset when you finish a level ;)

I tried making an image for this, but I found it too limited. With so few tiles to work with, I couldn't create any larger background objects or nice edges for terrain, which made for rather boring-looking levels. SIP has just barely more than the bare minimum of tiles needed for a platformer, making it very hard to make anything that really feels different from the default. As a result, the whole thing just isn't very fun to play with, because it just feels like recolouring someone else's work rather than a proper reskin.

Also, the game really needs volume controls, the sounds are too loud.