You were a revered follower of Asclepius, god of medicine and healing....
Now you've awoken.. in the underworld.
Try to get back to the world of the living in this 2D platformer.
Can you complete the final stage by using each of the obelisks?
Walk: A and D / arrows / controller Jump: W / up arrow / controller A button
In our initial release, there was a bug that was preventing the jump from always working. There was an extra spot in the code where we were making grounded = false. We also had to move input code for the jump from FixedUpdate () to Update (). These changes have been made, tested on Web/MacOSX/PC and reuploaded.
Art Direction and Music by Drew Newman [email protected] | youtube.com/user/Cerberust | youtube.com/user/PeacetimeMegaman
Programming and Sound by Joshua Gore (Myrddin's Owl) [email protected] | MyrddinsOwl.com
Thanks! Initially there was a bug with the jump when I first put this up this morning, but that was fixed around 2pm PDT today. The jumps are still tricky, but at least it is jumping when you hit jump now.
Love the atmosphere. There's a finicky sort of drifting upwards effect that's happening at the apex of your character's jump, it makes aiming for ledges and landing on them needlessly difficult. Time to play and polish really helps with stuff like that though. :) Great job!
This game has some serious style - though the organic style to the levels doesn't fit the jumping mechanics well. The interactions and character designs obelisks are my favourite part - upon getting stuck in the room with all three, I contented my self with just bouncing between them~
@GrooveMan, how do you think the jump should function that would make it fit the style better?
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PIXEL^329 Apr 2014, 08:52
Why are all the good LD games so short? Just as you give us a level that puts all the powers to good use it's over. Well guess that means I'll just have to wait to see if you continue it.
Really loved this game! It's an awesome proof of concept for a much bigger platformer. It was a shame to see it end so soon, but I guess the levels you made were good enough to prove the potential for this game. The graphics and audio were awesome, but it was a bit annoying to have the sound restart every time I died or passed the level. Also, controls were a bit floaty (particularly on slopes) Well done!
(This post is Drew): I apologize for the shortness of the game. In order to achieve a finished art style, I wanted to give the backgrounds for each level adequate time and polish. Doing new animations for each power up was also a bit time consuming, but worth it I feel. Thank you all for the feedback so far, and for taking a moment to play our game! We are already discussing making more levels and a full game, as this was a boatload of fun!
Controls were pretty sketchy - like trying to jump while walking down a slope. I like that you could solve some of the problems in different ways depending on your preference. Looks great obviously. Way too short and hard, especially since most of that difficulty came from the controls.
This is AWEEEEESOME :D I managed to beat it after dying a couple of times. That jump on the Yellow power level is really hard though D: died a lot on it
Really impressive platforming physics with curved surfaces etc, lovely graphics, music and sound - only one thing I found the last puzzle rather odd and unclear even though I did finally complete it!
Really nice art style. Audio was basic but did the job. A good idea that I would definitely have loved to see expanded out further than it was. Good job guys!
Super nice graphics and cool game! I included it in part 16 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/ruvs0qoO4zU
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A joy to play.
Too bad it's so short, I'd love to see more of this.