I have published a Steam game which makes by Platfinity.

The name is Little Marisa's Disaster Journey.

It includes many interesting ideas. Some of them are described below.

Because the special characteristic of Platfinity, it's impossible to make a multi-language game in an usual way.

But I found an unique way to do it.

First, I will thank the dev of another Platfinity game AI Anomaly.

Before I played this game, I never thought the game story can be written on the background pictures.

That means: To create a multi-language game, I just need to change different language of pictures!

This is my game's title screen:


The idea is: Use your character to simulate game's cursor.


Game settings:


Now, I will show you the most important technique.

Use a kind of Normal Tiles to surround the background picture. Your cursor (character) can't move out of this area.

NOTE: My game's resolution is 1024x768. So this method maybe not works in 1920x1080 pictures.



Use a kind of Background Tiles with Space properties to fill the whole area. Players can move their cursor in it.


Then you must erase all pixels of this Background Tile.

Don't worry, the Space properties can still working.


Finally, you should make some Special Tiles with End Point Go To Game properties.


Put them on the button of background pictures.

If you already know how to make a cursor screen, it’s much easier to keep going.

This is a level of my quiz game:


The right and wrong answers are Special Tiles. They all indicated by the same "?" marks.

But they have different End Point Go To Game settings.

In my game, if players selected the wrong answer, they must restart from beginning level of current route.

It's similar to cursor screen and quiz game, but you don't need to use space tiles.


The background of this level was filled with Special Tiles Ladder.

All numbers of coded lock are Special Tiles too. It only has one right answer (number), the others are wrong answers.

If players selected the right one, they will be warped to next entry screen of coded lock in the same level.

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OK. That's all.

With these techniques, you can even use Platfinity to create a visual novel game!

I hope my ideas can push the development of Platfinity games to a new future.