Running out of Graves

by wasd
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24
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In Running out of graves you are the gravekeeper on a spooky graveyard. Your job is to burry the corpses before they rot and turn into evil zombies.

But not only the undead have evil in mind!

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The tools ###

- Unity with Visual Studio
- PyxelEdit
- BFXR
- Bosca Ceoil
- Audacity

The team ###

- WASD | Coding, GameDesign, Playtesting, Audio, Musik,
- WASD's girlfried | Art, Sound

This game was created in about 26 hours net on my part. My GF probably spent 10 hours cause she had to work on sunday and monday. It was our first LD entry created together. I participated 5 times now but this is only the 3rd entry the I submitted, the other 2 were left unfinished. We're pretty happy how the game turned out and I see much potential here. I'v got a ton of features and ideas i couldnt get in in time. So maybe we will continoue to work on it. It was a great LD. I want to thank every one for your feedback.

#### post mortem to come ####
I'll post my post morten in here too. There I will talk about some design descisions and cuts i had to make to be able to finish this game and keep the scope small simple and fitting.

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Comments16

Vesuvium13 Aug 2018, 18:32
Hi, I tried to play the game in Linux/Debian, however pressing space on graves or zombies does not work. I can move the character all right.
AdroitConceptions13 Aug 2018, 18:55
* Linux build worked fine for me
* I tried stepping on a fire and got killed
* the limited vision - not sure if that makes the game better or worse
literallyjosh13 Aug 2018, 18:58
I got stuck between "days" I think. I unlocked a divine shovel and the game wouldn't let me progress?
Stames
Stames13 Aug 2018, 20:34
Hey very nice.

but when i got a item (devine Shovel and warming heard) my game just stoped

it seams to me like there should be a button to continue or maybe the timeScale is set to 0 and isn't changed back
wasd
wasdauthor14 Aug 2018, 04:44
Hey guys! Thanks for your feedback so far. I changed the buttons last minute and wasnt paying enough attention. The button will appear now so you dont get stuck and can unlock new awesome stuff!

@stames
@literallyjosh
@vesuvium
antonsem
antonsem14 Aug 2018, 19:51
Awesome idea and pretty good execution! Unlocked warming heart and probably will play more after rating some games.
sosaddude
sosaddude14 Aug 2018, 20:30
Great visual style and gameplay. U work so good ! I think if u continue work of that game, u can push it to mobile platform, or even Steam. Good luck anyway :)
El-Metallico
El-Metallico15 Aug 2018, 09:30
Is there web version available?
maartene
maartene15 Aug 2018, 10:59
Haha, I run out of health WAYYY before I run out of space. Anyway, good game. You are your GF are a good team. :v:
Jonathan Lorenz
Jonathan Lorenz15 Aug 2018, 11:25
Fun little game. I liked the mood of the game. There's isnt much happening in the middle since all the corpses are coming from the sides of the screen. Maybe add a little something there? Good work overall! Cheers!
nathanhoad
nathanhoad15 Aug 2018, 11:28
That was pretty fun and quite challenging - I'm looking forward to the post mortem :)
Saering
Saering15 Aug 2018, 11:30
Well that's actually pretty hard! But it's fun to play though, maybe I would have let more time to put out the fire, and sometimes I couldn't move diagonally while moving a dead body, but that wasn't this troublesome. Funny little game ! Great job :)
JavaSaurus
JavaSaurus15 Aug 2018, 12:16
Nice game ! Actually was pretty challenging, took me a while to get into it but it is awesome. Well done !
Alien
Alien15 Aug 2018, 12:35
Really Nice Game! it was quite Challenging
ursagames
ursagames30 Aug 2018, 01:20
This was a lot of fun! Quickly gets overwhelming as more things come in. I started playing Graveyard keeper recently and thought back about how the mechanics from this would be neat to have in that game. Thanks for sharing your game with my stream awhile back. Your game was played around 0:36 into this vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297885983

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