Ludum Dare #34compo

Spirit-uality

by sgtbursk

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★59%

Jerry has everything figured out in life. Well, almost everything...

Help Jerry on his quest for spiritual growth. As Jerry shuffles through this mortal coil, he has an opportunity to make life a little better. Make him perform good deeds such as finding true love, reading a good book, making bffs, and giving to the homeless.

As Jerry grows spiritually, it manifests into a little blue dude, complete with lightning-bolt action! Zap the evil spirits before they attack your spirituality and make it shrink! Defeat the Purple Demon and save Jerry from eternal damnation!

Controls:
Up Arrow: Attack
Down Arrow: Perform good deed

Comments13

Dooskington14 Dec 2015, 03:38

I didn't really know what I was doing, and the zoomed in camera made it a bit difficult to play. I got as far as until I had a blue thing over my head, and then I really didn't know what to do.

eerongal14 Dec 2015, 03:38

I love the graphics. That said, I was a bit confused by what was going on at first. Also, are you supposed to run out of wall? because I eventually did (and stuff stopped attacking my little genie). Nice work!

Move12714 Dec 2015, 03:39

A fun little game with good art.

Turkey14 Dec 2015, 03:41

pretty nice game, but enemies seemed to stop spawning after some time on the top half of the map

bushmango14 Dec 2015, 05:43

I'm not entirely sure what happened but I won?

ProjectX59314 Dec 2015, 06:11

Neat little game, found it to be a little bit easy when it suddenly ended, but dealing with both sides of the screen at once was a bit of a challenge.

AranHase14 Dec 2015, 20:52

Really good use of the theme! Good graphics, sound, and overall a nice game. I'm just not sure how I won, but it appeared a "Winner" thing on my screen, so I guess I did it? \o/ Good job :)

Weeping Rupee15 Dec 2015, 05:45

Once I figured out what I was doing I thought it was clever. a few more mechanics and line those button presses up with the music and it could be pretty good.

Caspila15 Dec 2015, 05:51

It took me quite some time to understand what was going on. I'm not sure the "Press up" "Press down" is enough. Once I understood the concept I found it really interesting. I'd like to see a post-jam version of it. Good job!

SgtBurskauthor15 Dec 2015, 05:59

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! It was my first Ludum Dare ever, and even though I programmed non-stop I still ran out of time! I'm definitely planning on refining it, especially explaining the controls and the end-game. Thanks for checking it out!

rzuf16 Dec 2015, 11:47

Ha, it got dark pretty quickly. Nice take on the theme, cool pixel art and I like the surreal background stuff that appears in the later game. Good job! :D

MemoryLeek19 Dec 2015, 23:27

Didnt get it. No clear goal

RARoadkill1 Jan 2016, 19:33

Good use of the theme. Good work overall, nicely done

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