The Decline

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 42 by Paul Straw.

Can you get to the top of this crumbling world?


* ### 🕹 Play now in your browser on itch.io!
* ### 📝 Read the postmortem blog post!
* ### 💻 Check out the source code on GitHub!

Genres: platformer
Tools: Unity

Comments22

James Shipp
James Shipp12 Aug 2018, 23:53
I couldn't make it to the top! :( I'm impressed you were able to add some of those dope details like the parallax and screenshake that make the game feel much better- this is high quality stuff!
paulstraw
paulstrawauthor13 Aug 2018, 00:18
Thanks @james-shipp! I definitely spent an inordinate amount of time on graphical "juice", unfortunately to the detriment of audio. Everything is a tradeoff in LD! 🙃
Jakub Kazimierski
Jakub Kazimierski13 Aug 2018, 00:26
Graphics is amazing and gameplay is challenging. I really like this game 😍.
Guilhermoni13 Aug 2018, 00:38
Nice, one of those games that you can spend a good time with, well done.
Pavsel13 Aug 2018, 02:19
Hard! and i dont really get the theme, but nice! good job! (love that pixel art)
moltanem
moltanem13 Aug 2018, 03:09
A+D+Spacebar was a real weird control scheme for me haha, seemed good on paper but I guess I'm really used to arrow keys + left hand for jumping in platformers, as a result I gave up about when I had to do a bunch of C jumps in a row. Loved the art!
OmnipotentIndie13 Aug 2018, 04:04
Art is good, and I enjoyed playing it. Obviously sound would have been nice, but we dont have time for everything. Connection to the theme isnt clear though
314owen
314owen13 Aug 2018, 07:14
Challenging and addictive gameplay. Nice touch with the particles under falling blocks.
Alexander Tan
Alexander Tan13 Aug 2018, 07:15
The controls are not a good controls scheme, nice level design and it's really hard. but good game
langep13 Aug 2018, 07:18
Took me way too long to get to the first checkpoint than I would like to admit. Cool art
suve
suve13 Aug 2018, 07:29
It's a shame there's no sound, because otherwise this would be a solid compo entry. A good pick for people who enjoy the Dwarf Fortress kind of challenge - because losing is fun!
deformhead
deformhead13 Aug 2018, 08:22
Excellent Game ! Love the art...
I am a big fan of very hard and retro games !
Noa Calice
Noa Calice13 Aug 2018, 09:36
Really nice pixel art and overall game feel :) ! Big well done ! The controls weren't that great for me though... I'm really not used to A + D to move, would of loved to be able to use the left and right arrow keys :)
TontonPizza
TontonPizza13 Aug 2018, 10:00
Good game here, it looks simple but you can't go no-brain for the highest ground reachable, you have to think, and think fast.
DangoGameDev
DangoGameDev13 Aug 2018, 11:57
Great, very nice simple pixel art with very responsive movement. Also very tense when the ground starts breaking.
psychead
psychead13 Aug 2018, 15:34
I like that you chose to keep everything except the key elements black and white, it helps clarity for such a fast game. The difficulty is pretty harsh, I like it.
mshopf
mshopf13 Aug 2018, 15:39
I suck at this type of game :-(((

Very polished entry, though it's really a standard mechanics one. Add some sound and a bit simpler start, and I could easily see this burning on phones.
vulpineblazeyt
vulpineblazeyt14 Aug 2018, 04:06
I think this was a pretty good game, enough to get me into it and trying to land that next checkpoint. The physics of it seemed... heavy. That might have been on purpose though.
Petitpadawan18 Aug 2018, 08:41
I really like this game, also graphics are really cool, good job !
YourLocalSavior24 Aug 2018, 02:55
Bonus points for doing a web build! Thank you! :)
Jens
Jens28 Aug 2018, 17:50
Great graphics, I missed the sounds though. The keybindings was a bit weird, should have added support for arrows as well. The acceleration in the movement made it so much harder, and it annoyed me a bit :P

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