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Confound

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Slight Confusion 10 Points

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I present to you, Confound.
My first serious project in Flash, made over the course of a month using Flixel.


You are a test subject of the Confound project, which studies the mind's ability to relearn how to perform simple tasks such as jumping and walking around while under the effect of artificial confusion.


Forget all you have learned about movement controls.
It's time to get confused.


WARNING - This game can be quite difficult at later stages. It also has an Auto-Save feature, so if you are having trouble, you can just quit and finish it later!


Protip - Take your time and think it through before moving around when near danger. Try no to be reckless.


Seeing as this is only my first flash game, I'd really appreciate some insightful reviews about what could be improved upon or not, if the game is enjoyable or not, that kind of stuff.


I hope you all enjoy this one!


EDIT - Woah! Front Page? Thanks, Newgrounds!


EDIT 2 - Reduced enemies and spikes' hitboxes.


PS: You can control the Volume with the - and + keys and mute/unmute with the 0 key.

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game was interesting and challenging until level 21, which is physically impossible.
while mashing the keyboard is exasperation i found out you can open a debug menu of sorts by pressing the key to the right of the L key.
this allows you to pause and resume the game, which also includes the timer. if you pause the game as soon as the clock ticks over, you can see which key lets you move right and hold it, so when you resume you can get an entire second of effective rightward movement.

by doing it this way it still took 8 full seconds of the total 10 available.
keep in mind this assumes you're starting from the very beginning of the countdown, since you can't start your attempt half-way through (because you need all the time you can get) AND that you:
- discern immediately which letter you need to hold to move right;
- hold the correct key to move right;
- do it for the full second you're able to, before it changes to another completely random key.
this is not something that can be done "by reacting to it".
unless there's a set pattern for the letters rotation, this is not possible in any way, shape or form.
i literally cheated and it was still close

nice game

pretty smart to make thing confused

After being away from this game for so long, I finally came back and beat it though I did cheat. You can still open the flash player console and even though you can't move when you pause it, it allowed me to see what key made me go right, then unpause and go right with that key, pause when the keys changed then repeat the cycle. Honestly, I don't think I would have been able to beat the last level without doing that. I hope you fix this in the future and I think your game deserves five stars (even if as someone else as said, the idea isn't new, it is still good!)

NOT EASY :/

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