Abstract

The World’s Easiest Platformer is a perfectly ordinary platformer… probably. Like the name says, it’s the easiest platformer you will ever play. It has levels, platforms, a jump button, all the usual stuff you would expect. There’s absolutely nothing weird about this game, and this abstract would never ever lie to you about that. Ever. Probably.

Run and jump around as a business man in a suit as you play through 10 very normal levels, none of which will do anything unexpected. We definitely did not spend a godawful amount of time setting traps in the levels that would read you like a book. Like making disappearing platforms. Or reversing gravity. Or make you play Flappy Bird… probably.

We’re not jerks though, so progress will be automatically saved when you complete a level, in case you need to take a break from the rage induced by our traps the overwhelming awesomeness of these levels! We also have sprites, sounds effects, and background music to taunt you while you suffer enhance your experience! Probably. If you don’t like pixel art or 8-bit style music and sounds, we’re sorry for your bad tastes.

Basically, please play our game. We guarantee you’ll have a miserable great experience!

Note for MacOS users: Unity builds for Mac are extremely finicky, so you may get a “The application can’t be opened” error. To fix this, open up the Terminal and enter the command chmod -R a+x "Downloads/The World's Easiest Platformer.app" (or whatever the path to the app is) after you have extracted the app out.

Screenshots

Video Demo

Team Profile

Thanh Nguyen - Lead Programmer and Level Designer

Thanh Nguyen (Thành) is a student at George Mason University majoring in both Computer Science and Math. He loves all things related to video games, including playing them and making them. With his limited art skills, he prefers to work on the programming and design side of things. Besides games, he also has a vested interest in math, specifically pure math and theoretical computer science.

Joey Bourgeois - Artist and Sound Designer

Joey Bourgeois is a CS major at GMU. Known colloquially as "The Mash Slinging Hasher" for a certain potato related incident. Hobbies include: playing video games, making video games and talking in the 3rd person.

Third-Party Assets

All visual art (sprites and background) are custom-made by the team’s artist.

All music by Jeremy Crockett for Omnibus, a game by Buddy Cops LLC and published by Devolver Digital.

Jump, jetpack, menu slect, and death sound effects are generated with bfxr.net.

Invert gravity sound: pixabay.com/sound-effects/instant-teleport-90645

Fake taxi clown honk sound: modified from pixabay.com/sound-effects/horn-430368

Car unlock sound: pixabay.com/sound-effects/old-maruti-car-unlock-sound-keyless-entry-beep-327691

Generative AI Disclosure

GitHub Copilot was used as a programming aid for this project. No images or sounds were created with generative AI.