You Probably Won’t Make It, and EDGE
I made a new game. Well, actually I finished up an old little something I made a while back. It’s a sequel to “You Made It”, called “You Probably Won’t Make It”. I started the game as a test for creating a solid platform engine. And it’s very solid, I never got any problem.
In previous games, there was always a little something that made it only 99% perfect (though the glitches aren’t noticeable so much to the average player), but now it’s, as far as I know, 100% perfect. The engine that is, not talking about the game itself.
It’s basically a very difficult platformer, but quite addicting. It also has an interesting feature where the blood that appears when you die will always remain there, also when you restart the game later. Plus, after you die it shows the path you took, so you can follow that again but slightly adjust it to (hopefully) make the jump right.
Platforms, spikes, and double-jumping. You Probably Won’t Make It.
Oh and something else. The new EDGE features an article about web based game portals, including YoYoGames. They show 4 screenshots of 4 games all made by me…! EDGE is a very credible magazine so I’m extremely pleased. =)
“Search for the works of famed user 2Dcube, for example, and you’ll find four pages of inspired puzzle games[...]”
Do you know all of these 4?
increpare:
Well if anything seemed like an invitation to look for bugs/glitches, this is it, heh. if you’re holding right when you die, and you tap up some time during the death animation, then you no longer move right when you come back to life and have to tap right again to move.
congrats on the edge mentions
February 5, 2009, 3:17 pmAndrew:
Cool! It’s a lot more polished than its prequel. Oh, and it’s great to see GM games mentioned in magazines, congratulations.
-Andrew.
February 5, 2009, 9:28 pmNoyb:
Pretty fun. Made it to level 18. :p
I think I might have liked it better if the paths were only rewritten on more productive attempts, not just all deaths. That and it feels like the collision mask is slightly bigger than the player, especially in a few levels with narrow gaps.
Congrats on Edge!
February 6, 2009, 12:31 amesquar:
Level 10 is too easy, its a 2 jump victory.
at level 12 I lost my guy for about 10 second, couldnt see him, then he just came back.
Couple of suggestions:
-make the line a different color than the background, its can get confusing if you’re trying to make a jump but can’t quite make out, in the heat of the moment, what’s a platform and what’s not.(this happens very rarely though)
-The game gets in these kind of situations in my case, I think because of the rapid falling and jumping, it’s also where I make most of my misjudging mistakes.
-have 2 or 3 lines, each more faded once it gets older(this could also work for the blood effects perhaps?)
or
-only keep the line that got you closest to the door
-The line would be more effective if you would know from what point of your character it is drawn. In some instances I would think to follow the exact same line as before, but then not doing so just quite.
- walking into a spike without touching the tip, but still dying is kinda silly.
It would also be really nice if you could get feedback from each player to get some statistics.
Pretty cool game in all, with the vib-ribbon aesthetics.(I made it to level 14)
February 6, 2009, 6:22 amJesse:
Level 10 is too easy, its a 2 jump victory.
>>> Er… Yeah kind of silly, I should’ve checked that.
at level 12 I lost my guy for about 10 second, couldnt see him, then he just came back.
>>> This is really weird, never had anything like this. What kind of situation was the character in?
Couple of suggestions:
-make the line a different color than the background, its can get confusing if you’re trying to make a jump but can’t quite make out, in the heat of the moment, what’s a platform and what’s not.(this happens very rarely though)
>>> As you say it happens rarely (and I personally never had a problem with it), plus it wouldn’t fit the aesthetics so much.
-The game gets in these kind of situations in my case, I think because of the rapid falling and jumping, it’s also where I make most of my misjudging mistakes.
>>> It makes it more difficult / challenging I think. I’m not saying the game is all that good though, it’s just meant to be really hard.
-have 2 or 3 lines, each more faded once it gets older(this could also work for the blood effects perhaps?)
or
-only keep the line that got you closest to the door
>>> more lines is a nice idea but a bit heavy on the engine unfortunately, plus again I don’t think it would fir the style.
Your second idea here is a good suggestion but very difficult to program.
-The line would be more effective if you would know from what point of your character it is drawn. In some instances I would think to follow the exact same line as before, but then not doing so just quite.
>>> Well it’s drawn from the center of the character. Seems clear enough for me, you should get a feel for it when playing.
- walking into a spike without touching the tip, but still dying is kinda silly.
>>> I guess the hitbox should’ve been a pixel smaller, thanks for the tip.
It would also be really nice if you could get feedback from each player to get some statistics.
>>> True.
Pretty cool game in all, with the vib-ribbon aesthetics.(I made it to level 14)
February 6, 2009, 6:29 am>>> Thanks for playing!
Kian:
Glad you’re back, it’s been a bit boring without you
February 6, 2009, 1:39 pmYou Probably Won’t Make It is fantastic, I enjoyed it a lot!
I got to level 14 before I gave up… for now. I just wish that
the most successful path would be redrawn as well as the most resent.
Jay:
Yeah, cool game but practically unbeatable.
February 7, 2009, 5:20 amMade it to level 15, and it seems like it’s impossible to hit the space between the two big spikes due to the problem Esquar already pointed out about dying from a spike without touching the tip. I suppose if you managed to hit the space, continuing from it would be impossible because of the required jump angle to get further. Waiting for an update. =)
Jesse:
Thanks for your positive comment Kian!
Jay, the trick with the level where you’re at is to land it down in a bit of a vertical line. This way you don’t slide as much after landing. The sliding is what makes you hit the spikes.
Good luck
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February 9, 2009, 11:10 amGregory:
I don’t see how the second jump in level 18 is possible. I’m sure I’m missing something, but I just don’t know what.
February 9, 2009, 4:12 pmTiralmo:
I agree with Gregory that 18 doesn’t seem possible. The furthest I can get is death on the second big spike.
February 9, 2009, 4:28 pmKenzya:
I’m on the fence too about level 18. If I could clear that block sticking up in the middle, then I could use the second jump over the rest but it seems that I have to use two jumps to get over that middle block.
February 9, 2009, 4:54 pmDylan R.:
The hit detection annoys me
other than that great
February 9, 2009, 4:54 pmDeceased Crab:
Well, I’m stuck on level 16.
February 9, 2009, 5:56 pmNow I hate you.
captain_duck:
Got to level 18, but this is fucking impossible. This is what level 18 looks like:
http://angryhosting.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/af/af01fb48a2fcd00c4c6c4bba0dbc67aa4388a6b7.png
Maybe there is something secret about it or its just the author trying to piss us off but i see no way to do this.
February 9, 2009, 6:47 pmKenzya:
Might as well just play ’til level 18 because that’s the last level. There’s no more after that.
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February 10, 2009, 5:52 amKaL:
People were saying 18 was impossible I was hoping for some big challenge that’s barely impossible. Come on that’s just a cheap trick
February 10, 2009, 9:57 amPekuja:
I think level 18 is possible. I’m able to hit the third large spike. I’ll tell you how after I make it all the way myself.
February 10, 2009, 11:42 amJesse:
I think it’s impossible, at least, I never made it but then again I didn’t really try so much either.
February 10, 2009, 11:44 amValarauka:
Nice game; I’m up to level 16 so far. I want to report a huge memory leak though: on my system, the game eats up a few megabytes of memoryeach time I die, I have a feeling it’s something to do with the bitmap being saved on death. On death-heavy levels (like, all of them ;p) this can balloon into several hundred megs really fast and starts making everything else page out after a while… In case you need to know, this is on WinXP Pro, 32-bit, on an Intel Core 2 Duo.
February 10, 2009, 1:05 pmPekuja:
@KaL: Are you saying you beat level 18?
February 10, 2009, 3:56 pmPekuja:
Check this out: http://pekuja.com/misc/level18-almost.png
February 10, 2009, 4:33 pmWhat that is is I jumped on the one pixel space on the edge of the middle platform with the spikes. I can almost make the jump, but I think that jump is not actually possible. If however there’s a similar one-pixel space on the right edge of the platform, the jump from there would be pretty easy. I’ve tried many times though, and I’ve never hit the right edge.
Katnip:
I’m glad I’m not the only one who insanely tried to get across using that little edge next to the spikes. As far as I can tell it’s impossible to complete since that extra space only exists on the left hand side of ledges. Though there technically is a tiny amount of space on the right hand, your characters hitbox is too big to ever land on it.
Also I’ll confirm the memory leak. While I was playing level 18 I maxed out my ram after a couple hundred deaths and the game couldn’t keep track of blood splatters anymore.
February 10, 2009, 5:56 pmdfasfasd:
There are no more levels after level 18
February 10, 2009, 9:12 pmKaL:
Nah I didn’t beat it I’d just hoped it’d be more of a difficult challenge then simply being too far to jump.
February 10, 2009, 11:43 pmJesse:
Pekuja, that’s pretty amazing.
As for the memory leak, thanks for reporting, I never considered this…
And as for level 18 itself, I was hoping the title would be kind of a hint >_<
Anyway thanks for playing!
February 11, 2009, 2:05 amNosgoroth:
Reached L18, I made it!
February 11, 2009, 4:49 amBen:
That’s really a great game!
You’ve got the balance between difficulty and feasibility just right - the levels are very hard, but you still want to complete them and not give up straight away. It’s also amazing how you manage to introduce new difficulties on each level, can’t wait to get to the last ones.
I ran it from inside it’s zip and after I got to level 14 I closed it, and when I later opened again I was back in level 1
February 11, 2009, 7:40 amThis is very frustrating. Please make it more clear that you have to extract it before you play….
Jesse:
Thanks Ben!
Sorry your progress didn’t get saved. There’s a readme file (titled “You Probably Won’t Read It”;) ) that comes with the game that says you should extract. Generally it’s always a good idea to extract games since many need to save data in some way.
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February 13, 2009, 6:37 pmJohn K:
oh my god this game makes me want to bash my head into the wall
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February 16, 2009, 6:08 pmBlazeAlex:
I made it to level 18,
February 19, 2009, 3:49 pmIs there anymore levels?
hkhappy:
i cant win 18lvl
February 20, 2009, 8:01 amRImmer:
SO WHAT?? IS IT POSSIBLE?? LVL 18?? PLS ANSWER Jesse Venbrux
February 21, 2009, 9:17 amJesse:
I should have named the game “You Definitely Won’t Make It”… -_-’
February 21, 2009, 9:23 amErin:
Seriously. What’s the deal with level 18?
February 21, 2009, 4:35 pmJess Horton:
Jesse … I cannot believe that I have played your games and played TF2 with you at the BoC and never put 2 and 2 together. I am Jess Horton from Zerosoft Games as well. Small world huh
February 21, 2009, 6:38 pmJesse:
It’s a small world.
Except I never played Team Fortress 2. 0_o
February 22, 2009, 4:10 amJess Horton:
Sorry man haha I got you confused with a friend of mine who’s name is Jesse and he linked to this site. I mistook what he said about You Probably Won’t Make It. I thought he said he made it and when I came to the site … I thought he was you. My apologies … we have laughed a few times already about it haha. I told him he was an awesome developer and he said … I don’t develop games. I said uh oh haha
February 22, 2009, 9:15 pmdesertdweller:
I got to level 13. Then I realized I had been failing at this game way too long.
February 23, 2009, 4:36 pmBlackhole190:
woo!!! i beat level 18!!! first person to do so!!! there is a SMALL SPACE AT THE END OF THE ROW OF SPIKES. LAND THERE.I WARN U IT IS PRETTY HARD AND U MIGHT GET MAD AND HAVE A BREAK DOWN.level 19 is what i call impossible.it is a flat platform with spikes coding the floor and the door at the end of the stage.i will soon post a pic or vid of lv 19 on youtube!!!
March 2, 2009, 6:24 pmSatanda:
It is before or behind the spikes??? I mean the platform…
March 5, 2009, 3:10 pmObélix:
Blackhole190 = FAKE
Post your picture !
March 6, 2009, 10:29 amRBT SPARDA:
Stuck to Level 18, I can reach sometimes the little space in the left of the platform.. but then I can’t figure it out…
Is it really possible.. ? Please answer us.. or post a screenshot or something.
Blackhole190 : Into your folder you have the picture of Level18.bmp …. post it, then I’ll believe it..
March 8, 2009, 4:59 pmBaris Unver:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
March 18, 2009, 5:35 pmSoner Gönül:
Wow. This game is realyy hard =)I think it’s impossible you can’t finish.
March 19, 2009, 11:46 amLeaverNOOB:
i fucking couldnt make that fucking “you probabily won’t fucking make it” so fuck that level 18!! it is fucking impossible if you have a save i want to see thoes fucking level 19 and 20 god damn it.
March 19, 2009, 2:54 pmerpay:
Hi, I2m at lvl 18. Still I did’n pass the level but after reading above I try to land edge of spike and i manage to do it. So now i have an hope to pass level. but unfortunately it will take really time only to land near edge
I don’t know what time does it take to pass this.
March 22, 2009, 5:35 pmExpriment : http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6236/bir.gif
murat:
heyy ı came 18 part but here ıs very dıffucult but ı want try 18 part agaın and agaın.
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March 23, 2009, 10:35 pmRazor:
Jesse is level 18 possible or not?? plz i need to know the music of the game its driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 24, 2009, 1:48 pmRazor:
oh! another question why there are sipkes on the roof in level 18??
March 25, 2009, 2:56 pmmurat:
level 18 ı thınk very crazy level lıttle dıffucult .Good luck
March 26, 2009, 3:27 pmihatejesse:
I made it to level 14. I hate you, Jesse.
March 31, 2009, 10:26 amAnnoyed:
Yeah, that whole “you can’t finish the game, but you don’t know that without surfing around for comments” thing?
That’s pretty shitty man. It’s just mean.
April 5, 2009, 4:15 amMASKED:
Ok, really. Secret to level 18, please…I’ve died hundreds, perhaps thousands of times. and I’ve only made it to that little platform between the two things of spikes dozens of times.
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April 6, 2009, 1:22 pmgreg:
wow, why am i still playing this? haha.. i thought the game was really brilliant up till lvl 18. Where i stopped smiling, and just was pure frustrated..
Its clever that, up until the end levels, the biggest challenge is near the start of each level, so you dont feel too frustrated when you die, and the blood thing adds a level of “uniqueness” to everyones play.. which makes it seem like you added something even when all you did was die…
the white line could do with being changed to something which is red/black, depending what colour it covers, and it would be good if only the play that i made most progress was tracked with the line too (assuming that the line is there to help me??)
Cool game, but lvl 18 i thought was just too much to ask of the player and seemed like a massive slap in the face for everyone who got that far
April 6, 2009, 4:41 pmylw:
So if Level 18 is impossible (I don’t believe those screenshots of the edge platform) the end(?) comes down to whoever can get the furthest on the last jump after they land the first gap…
April 7, 2009, 3:45 amerpay:
@ylw my picture is not a fake
I just try to reach that position to know if i can make it:) I seems simple but it’s very hard to thateven at the left side and I only managed to that once 
It’s funy isn’t it it’s very difficult to that on the right side of the apex or there is not a word strong than difficult if there is I would use that word 
April 8, 2009, 3:04 amylw:
@erpay I tried again after your latest post and you are telling the truth. You can get onto the 2 pixel gap to the left of the spike. It takes a really long time but if it’s possible then I guess it’s possible to finish the level, though the mind boggles at how hard it must have to be to get onto the 1 pixel edge to the right of a spike. I don’t think it’s possible to make it from the topmost left edge.
April 9, 2009, 12:28 amylw:
So what happens if someone does miraculously make it to the door since there is no level 19 or 20? Is the trigger set at all? Will the game crash?
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April 9, 2009, 11:01 amSubE:
Great game but what is with the controls? Remapping would be nice as the cursors are awkward and cause strain. Or is that the point?
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April 11, 2009, 4:52 pmerpay:
@ylw I think the name of the game comes from this level
And I can’t imagine how difficult other levels that we possibly won’t reach 
April 12, 2009, 3:16 pmMayara Alves:
Jesse, pleaseeee
I am going desparate, Give me ONE hint about the level 18 =(
Pleaseee
April 22, 2009, 11:11 amMayara Alves:
My bad
I made a mistake. Iam brazilian and i don’t know to speak in English very well
I wanted to talk: I am getting desparate^^
April 22, 2009, 11:26 amNagrom:
Hi everybody.
I’m french and i want to know:
Jesse, is the level 18 possible?
I don’t want to try anymore if it’s not possible^^.
Please answer clearly, i’m french and don’t understand so much english
Nagrom
April 25, 2009, 11:02 pmvincent-v:
There is no lvl19… I got a fatal error when I reach the door of lvl18 (I changed the position of the player object directly into memory ^^)
April 26, 2009, 4:50 pmNagrom:
lol
April 27, 2009, 10:49 amThen I will stop trying finishing this level ^^.
I hate you Jesse
AJG:
this one seems to have passed the level 18
May 1, 2009, 8:02 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ledatHq8IA
Isegrim:
ragequit at level 13
god i suck at those games
May 1, 2009, 5:48 pmPerikO:
i made ir to level 18 but it seems imporssible to end!1… any ideas!?
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May 13, 2009, 5:54 pm.....:
I am 10 and i got to level 19 but then it crashed
May 20, 2009, 4:06 pmPapachabre:
I just finished this game and I gotta admit I was disappointed by the “ending”. I get the humor but, ugh…
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May 22, 2009, 2:08 pmEdis:
I made it up to the small small left edge on the top step/floor on lvl 18. so its posible to make it
June 4, 2009, 2:52 pmEdis:
Here is a image http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9251/lvl18.png
June 4, 2009, 2:58 pmKubas:
Jesse thx for such a great game .), spent hours playing it and every minute was worth it .).
Best arcade free game ive ever played.
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June 19, 2009, 12:57 pmfafa:
i think its possible to pass lvl18..
June 19, 2009, 6:12 pmin the middle, there is a gap just like where erpay standing..
two of them are in same lengnth..
if we stand in there..
we can pass the middle and long spikes..
Frag-Dragon:
LVL 18 seems to be a inverted lvl, a screenshot to explain :
July 13, 2009, 5:42 pmhttp://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8306/ywmilvl18.jpg
but no way to inverted ^^
Markus:
Perfect game when waiting for the compiler to finish it’s job or, even better, when having to watch Selenium tests the n-th time
thanks!
It’s really tempting not to re-write this for browsers …
August 19, 2009, 12:04 amJoe:
I really liked this game. It was frustrating as hell, but I beat level 18. (I know you’re not meant to). I used a glitch where you can jump onto the ledge, just (a pixel) away from the spike, then you can progress… took me about half an hour to get it right.
August 19, 2009, 1:50 amJesse:
@Joe
I know about that one pixel thing, but didn’t think you could make it past the spikes from there! Congrats if true.
August 21, 2009, 8:55 amMarkus:
@joe: pixel on the left or right? I managed to position on the left side, but couldn’t make it to the end, still seems too far .. ?
August 24, 2009, 5:50 am