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Hello There! My name is Nick Oztok and I'm the creator, developer, and programmer of Aurascope. An original 2D action-adventure collectathon platformer with light puzzle and RPG elements.

  

Join our friends Trace and Aurora to uncover the secrets surrounding the Aurascope, a mysterious drive from beyond the stars! Use it's abilities to help collect Energy Cores scattered throughout the lands to restore power to the Islands of Starlight! Utilize the duo's arsenal of skills to collect goodies, explore, battle foes big and small, and embark on an adventure of a lifetime!

  • Discover the secrets behind the Aurascope and complete the epic story  in the Adventure mode.
  • Play alongside or against your friends in head-to-head matches in battle mode.
  • Keep yourself entertained with a variety of fun challenge modes.
  • Customize the game to suit your personal preferences and gameplay style.



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Use the Aurascope to interact with objects, attack enemies, as a jump boost, and more!


⭐ Acquire Energy Cores to help bring power back to the Islands of Starlight!


Collect and utilize all sorts of different items to help you along your journey!






Trace
 is a lean, mean, - and with his mechanical arms, perhaps literal - platforming machine. With a wide array of moves and techniques at his disposal, he can traverse nearly any location with ease! Even without the Aurascope’s abilities, he is still an extremely agile and trailblazing adventurer with a big heart.




Aurora
 is an extraordinary engineer and inventor. She never shies away from adventure and may be even more of a daredevil than Trace. She is equipped with several unique inventions of her own design in addition to being able to use the Aurascope. Her smarts and determination are what get her through the toughest situations!


Updated 20 days ago
StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
AuthorИICK★
GenrePlatformer, Adventure
Tags2D, collectathon, GameMaker
LinksSteam

Download

Download
Aurascope v0.2.0 Demo.zip 73 MB

Install instructions

Extract the files from the zip into a folder then launch the .exe file.

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Hello,

As of Today games need to have an age rating to be sold in Germany. On steam this means that you need to follow the below link and fill out a survey.

https://partner.steamgames.com/healthcheck/missingratingforgermany/


you haven't done this yet. please do. Us germans also want to play this wonderful game.

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10/10 cute af little puzzle game, charming and fun
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Trace and Aurora both loved it. It was a very fun action game.
The character sprites and backgrounds are very detailed and rich!
It's interesting that the stages also change time and goals in one stage.
The time attack was quite exciting, especially after finishing that stage.
It was really fun to run around the world that I had been slowly exploring while looking for hidden items, now I was running around at high speed!
I look forward to supporting Aurascope in the future, meow~!

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Honestly can't wait for the full version, it's THAT good ! 

looking into this

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this game is so slay 

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Holy crap this looks stunning how did I not find this earlier

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This game looks amazing fellow dev! Really well done :)

how to get to the levels shown in the did-somebody-say-boom? and the player moves gifs?

i believe that another challenge that could be done would just be reaching the goal in this level without using any of the placable blocks, i've done it and it wasn't that to do.

the corrupted halo one was easier than playing the level normally because for most of it you just had to fall, so i think that that one would be better if it wasn't playing the level backwards

i don't see why there is so many placable blocks to pick up as on my first play of the level i was usually around 8 to 10 at all times after picking up the first ones.

i beat the entire game, then tried to play the time trial again, but got this error upon loading into the level

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ERROR in

action number 1

of Alarm Event for alarm 0

for object obj_ghost:

Data structure with index does not exist.

at gml_Object_obj_ghost_Alarm_0

############################################################################################

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

stack frame is

gml_Object_obj_ghost_Alarm_0 (line -1)

i can click ignore, and the level runs fine, but the error pops up every time i die or restart the level, also it was kinda annoying to defeat the enemies but then i just rolled into them and that was much easier then stepping on them, also i think that this game is very good so far and wish that there was more levels.

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Really cool! The controls feel really nice and the visuals are amazing. 
But i do have 1 nitpick. Killing enemies is really annoying (specially in the stomping enemies challenge). The controls are too floaty and unpresice to land on the enemies without getting hit. Maybe increase the hitbox size?
Edit: Also the walljump is kinda weird to use. Sometimes it just doesn't jump.

Pretty fun, the controls are responsive and the platforming is satisfying with the abilities such as dash-bounces. The level design is solid and the exploration with cores reminds me of Super Mario 63, basically 2D SM64. The visuals are amazing, the music is good. There's not much to complain, the demo shows a lot of promise. The only thing I didn't really like is 100% completion reward was kind of disappointing, but that might be just me, as I'm not really into card games. But overall, it's a fun little demo, I highly recommend it to the platforming fans.

Really cool, but the controls are all messed up when using a controller, and the instructions are sort of lacking. I dunno what to do so I get stuck pretty quick. How are people making the blocks appear?

i can not lie one of the best games on this site good job :D

this beta is incredible

I love this game so much, the music and the graphics worked perfect i made a video about it. I hope you guys like it.

For some reason, I get a shader error when I try to run the game. What do I do?

Download the additional DirectX Runtime libraries from Microsoft's site:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

15 minutes to end up to finish. Yet it has been very nice.

OMG Let Me Download it. It So Be Cool 

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i like it but i cant find where i am from

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"and even RPG games"
"and even Role Playing Game games"

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Shhhhhhhhh

LOL

Absolutely awesome demo, can't wait till it's released! Made top 5 in the ranks!

dude i love psf and seeing this game makes me wonder,is it made with part of the base of psf

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At the time of writing, pressing ESC when remapping your controls will close the game and completely destroy your controls (everything is binded to "-1") and the only way I've found to fix the issue is deleting the Aurascope folder in appdata/local/.

Other than that, great little demo you have here! Had a lot of fun doing acrobatics.

This happened to me. Thank you for helping!

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Platformers in general have a special place in my heart but this loved up to every potential I had in my head when I went into it, especially as it's still in it's early stages. I'm very very much looking forward to seeing how this progresses and seeing how the world grows!!

Awesome!

Just saw your game on the itch.io channel. Congrats on being featured!

I haven't had the chance to play the demo yet. (to be fair, also Linux, lol)

But just looking at the footage on the feature video and your devlog, I have a few remarks...

First of all, the art is absolutely gorgeous! Also I can tell you've put a lot of effort into giving a lot of depth to the movement options available.

Having the weakest enemy in the game require two hits to kill is a bit bold from the perspective of a new player learning the ropes, but at the same time it depends on your target audience, and I see it introduces the combo feature which is cool.

Honestly the major gripe I could see myself having while playing this game is the aurascope build mode. It seems to take away from the flow. While watching the itch.io feature video, I noticed that the player started to jump in mid-air and then use the build mode to place tiles directly beneath them. Which made me think... why not just have that the default build mode? Have the aura cubes materialize directly beneath the player's feet, and save the mode switching for when precision is really needed. Maybe when crouch-sliding with the build key, you could materialize a bunch of cubes beneath you at once as you move.

It might even be possible to add a "flow" option to the bombs as well, with a parabolic trajectory. The trajectory could be displayed in the world. Perhaps the parabola varies in size periodically as you hold down a key. (also, I'm assuming you're trying to avoid using the mouse?)

Also, I wonder if the coins bounced more. Might be cool or really annoying.

proably gonna make a video on this

My only real concern about the game is that the jump-attack feels...off. Like the contact area isn't the width of my sprite, so I end up messing up the stomp attacks.

Just placed top 100 in my first run. This game is pretty good, poog even.

The lads and I like it.

This game is impressive. I have not had a game like this in a while where I actually got hooked to collecting stuff. So if your curious. I made a video. Check it out if you like.


I like this game so much, but sometimes the jump does not register correctly, meaning falling down some platforms and do some areas more time than necessery. The other thing that bugs me it's that I can't absorb blocks while jumping: If I can place them mid-air, why can't I remove them as well? Plus I can't re-unlock the speedrun mode in the demo, even after taking all the stars.
But, like I said, I like this game anyway.

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I'm in the top 13 and I'm proud :,v

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Will this be a paid product?  If so, will there be demos for us to try?

Like every good indie game, it will be paid in the end and have a free demo. At least that's what I'm assuming.