Juan Miguel in the City
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
FIND YOUR GRANDMA'S HOUSE AND SURVIVE THE DANGERS OF A BIG CITY ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, JUAN MIGUEL!
CONTROLS
The game will tell you, little boy!
LANGUAGE
English and Spanish.
ABOUT THE GAME
This game is a result of a personal objective that I’ve set up for myself during the quarantine of 2020. The aim was for me to learn from scratch Pixel Art, Unity and C# programming language. Passionate about drawing techniques and filmmaking since an early age, I am very interested in building a career in the world of videogames. To me, this represents a great platform where I can combine my drawing, storytelling and programming skills, tackling both the artistic aspect of it as well as building the code to tell a story.
‘Juan Miguel in the city’ was a very challenging project for me, where I have invested a lot of time, work and energy. It’s a short game (20-40 minutes), full of obstacles that you, a little boy called Juan Miguel, must face in order to survive. I am eager to improve, any constructive feedback or advise is more than welcomed. Hope you’ll enjoy playing it! In case you would like to see more games from me, you can support me by clicking the PayPal button. Any help is very much appreciated!
CREDITS
Designed and programmed by Jaime Herrero
Music and sound by JL Demian
Cutscenes art by Paco Alcázar
Download
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Development log
- V2.4: New checkpointMar 14, 2021
- V2.3: Fixed screen size errorMar 13, 2021
- V2.2: Difficulty levelsMar 03, 2021
- V2.1: Improvements addedMar 02, 2021
- V2: Improvements addedMar 01, 2021
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Hello, Can someone help me, please? I downloaded the game but it's downloaded to open with Firefox browser and the only think is does is creating more.
This is the first time I see this issues.
Hi! Have you tried to open the downloaded file with WinRAR? Or maybe try to download It with another program different than firefox?
Thank you, Jaime! The WinRAR worked! :D
Amazing, loved it, I need a sequel!!
Mil gracias, Lucas! Espero que no te haya costado mucho llegar hasta el final!
Jejejeje pude llegar, si!
PD: Creo que hay un pequeño bug al finalizar el juego, básicamente si vuelves a empezar (pero sin cerrar el juego), comienzas desde el ultimo checkpoint, aunque hayas cambiado la dificultad.
Gracias por el aviso, creo que se el motivo!
That being said, I adore the game's black comedy presentation. Seeing Juan Miguel die a bunch to some really messed up things... is darkly humorous in a way. But at the same time I love this kid and want to give him a hug. I want to see more. Keep it up, and maybe this'll be a well-known dark humour series.
Have you considered emailing Alpha Beta Gamer? They like to cover this sort of material, especially since there's more coming.
P.S. I drew fanart
Wow, that's amazing, I love It!! Can I share it on Twitter and Instagram crediting you?
I'm glad you finally loved it despite all the frustrating parts! All that black humor resulting from the many deaths was the main point in the game!
Oh, of course you may share!!
Do you have any plans beyond Dungeon? If you have 5+ mini-games of this length lined up then you could sell them all together.
Sorry; I'm getting ahead of myself. My point is yes please make this a full game/series/project/whatever its incredible. I can assist you with sourcing funding and marketing.
I did this one to learn how to make a video game. Now I'm learning Unity 3D and as a final project I may make a small horror 3D game, something like "Amnesia: the dark descent" with Juan Miguel trying to escape from a dungeon.
Please have the nightclub entrance as a checkpoint - kinda frustrating to have to collect the glasses over and over again
Yeah, maybe I could add it in the easy mode. The hard mode is supposed to be a nightmare!
Made a video
Thank you! I just fixed the problem with the screen resolution. In your screen the life hearts don't appear and some texts, like in the ending video, are weirdly resized. Sorry for all that newbie errors!
Just finished the game. It was beautiful and quite challenging. The hard mode was almost impossible but it feels good to beat a hard game. I only have 2 "complaints".
First is that I hit those pink spikes A LOT of times cuz I coudn't see them, they are quite small and blend in with the enviroment, but that was not big of an issue, just frustrating.
My main issue was that there was no checkpoint save after I exit the game. It was a big bummer when I was at the half of the game and retuned another day to finish it, only to find out I have to play the whole game from the beggining.
Overall, a great game, great atmosphere and art, nice challenges. Nice job man, keep it up.
Thank you for the feedback!
There are some design decisions (as the spikes) taken to make the player feel helpless as a child, but I'm aware it is quite frustrating and I'm thinking of changing it up a bit in the future. Same with not having a saving option when you exit the game. I'm not sure if I should put that option or just an initial text saying that the game must be finished in one ride.
cuando lo habro, la pantalla se pone negra mientras suena una musicita >:V
Has podido solucionarlo? Puede ser cosa del antivirus?
nop..se me pone pantalla completa y la pantalla se pone en negro y me quede esperando un rato y nada pasaba :/
poor boy.
nice game.
bad mum bad grandma good drug funny lady.
I'm having an issue playing this game. I get an error that says I don't have access at the .exe file. Can anyone help me?
Hi! Are you playing from a PC? Maybe right button and execute as administrator?
I am playing from a PC and already tried running it as an administrator. The same thing happened. Could it be an issue associated with the antivirus?
Maybe, It looks like a permission issue because I'm not a "trusted" or "official" developer.
I'll try to fix it because I really wanna try your game. I'll hopefully come back with a review.
If finally you can fix It tell me how! You are the first one with this issue
I dig this game.
a small step for you a big step for your career
Me gusta
Got to play the V2 build and it was tough but Juan Miguel is a brave boy & he made it... mostly intact. Looking forward to his new adventure. :)
Thank you again! I should thake a look at that weird bug with the drunk guy...
That bug, I didn't experience it when playtesting initially, but when recording it popped up. Seems the guy gets stuck in something.
Yeah, I think I know where the bug come from and I have fixed it for the next game version!
This was absolutely brutal both in gameplay and story, it made me hate it and love it in equal measure! (I recorded this before you added in the difficulty levels). This is so good, you've really captured the old-school platformer feel!
It took me back to those of classic pixel art games even the gameplay itself. There were some bugs need to be fixed. It was great overall.
starts at 9:24I have my gameplay included in this video:
the bug I mentioned at 25:25
Wow. I think I should put something taller on that place that prevents jumping over it, because in that part of the game you are supposed to go back and then something happens. Thank you for te bug report!
Btw, there is a new version easier and less frustrating.
No problem dude.
I'll look into it as well.
stunning pixel art! love it!
Thank you!
Juan's mom kicked him out! Now he must go to his grandmother's house. Sounds simple but it's a very challenging/funny side scroller. There are times where I would curse at the end because it got so difficult! But with sometime and love, we get Juan to his grandmother's house... but that's not the end of the adventure :(
Amazing gameplay! And please forgive me :D
Me ha encantado el estilo pixel art del juego y el cuidado de los detalles. También me ha puesto de los nervios con la dificultad. Muy buen juego!
Ya me gustaría que mi primer juego hubiera sido así.
Gracias! Quería hacerlo difícil, pero creo que me he pasado un poco y puede llegar a ser frustrante. He actualizado una nueva versión con más checkpoints y una línea de texto extra en el tutorial, pero estoy planteándome añadirle alguna vida y simplificar enemigos para hacerlo más equilibrado.
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fun
Thanks!
Played your game. I had a lot of fun with it. I didn’t expect it to scare me but some of it did. Great work.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that you liked it!
You’re welcome 😊
Hi! Loved your game! A bit hard tho, but I did it! :D