Dead Weight

by block97

co-authored: @wowbagger

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.27

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Dead Weight is a game where your goal is to find the ladder to advance to the next room.

Use arrow key or WASD to control your monster.

Locked doors can be opened by stepping on the corresponding pressure plate or dropping one of your limbs on top.

Eyeballs can also be place to provide you with stationary vision, however cannot activate pressure plates.

Careful, if you have your limbs detached you will loose blood and if you run out its game over.

Q retracts all your limbs and eyeballs back to your monster, if a limb passes over a pressure plate on the way to your monster it will activate it.

Once you have all your limbs re-attached you will begin healing.

Use R to restart level.

Developed by: Matt, Jacob, Alan, Jon, Dan, Kirubel, Bryan and Peter.

Art and Music by: Will

Comments21

mtanton4 Dec 2018, 06:55

Really creative mechanic! It took me a bit to realize that I could use the magnetic limb reattachment to solve some puzzles. Overall, well designed game with unique gameplay. Nice work!

wowbagger4 Dec 2018, 18:56

@mtanton thanks for the feedback. We were a bit worried that people wouldn't play the game long enough to discover that mechanic. Did you beat all 6 levels?

heyycap5 Dec 2018, 01:40

Agreed about that mechanic! That opens up the possibility for puzzle design.

Dizzy5 Dec 2018, 01:45

Great game, really liked!

Marcos Donnantuoni5 Dec 2018, 01:47

Macabre but good!

burnedkirby5 Dec 2018, 01:51

Pretty good and stable game. Fog of war requires the player to explore to see what the level layout is, and each level is a unique puzzle to reach the goal which was nice. It also made use of all the game mechanics of leaving limbs, leaving eyes, and pulling dropped limbs to the player. Simple and good.

miltonsilva5 Dec 2018, 02:08

O JOGO É BEM CRIATIVO ME PERDI EM ALGUNS MOMENTOS NAO SABIA MUITO O QUE FAZER MAS A IDEIA PROPOSTA FOI BEM COERENTE OTIMO.

Riemann Integrable5 Dec 2018, 02:13

Awesome little game! It's really fun, and such a cool idea!

exper1057 Dec 2018, 07:09

Great mechanic!

selina7 Dec 2018, 17:43

Nice puzzle game, and I liked the sound effects

Lemons7 Dec 2018, 17:45

Nice, I love the mechanics

Jupiter_Hadley8 Dec 2018, 13:18

Interesting concept! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Y2UiyhFvqPg

Arvejeitor12 Dec 2018, 15:28

Funny idea! love the mechanics

appix14 Dec 2018, 02:15

Interesting Game！Using body parts to solve puzzles，great！

vlandemart14 Dec 2018, 05:40

Very good one, I cleared all levels.
Concept is excellent, my only suggestion would be to add more types of puzzles.

arron-fowler16 Dec 2018, 12:05

Good solid entry. All these lost limbs in this jam. All well thought out and put together. I liked the lighting effect esspecially. Great work

Izunah29 Dec 2018, 19:56

Awesome idea, I really enjoyed this game a lot. I think the fog of war was a tad excessive, but it worked to create some really interesting puzzles with your eyes and body parts. A few times I was thinking to myself "how in the world do I solve this?" and thankfully the game is intuitive enough that you get an idea, and can try it, and it can work. You did an awesome job

kiv29 Dec 2018, 20:32

Great mechanics idea and good point on the theme! Really fun to play

lilkrit29 Dec 2018, 20:53

Awesome game! Just one tip - give the option to recover a single body part.

wowbagger30 Dec 2018, 17:44

@lilkrit just out of curiosity was there a level that you thought this would have helped with?

lilkrit30 Dec 2018, 17:49

@wowbagger Anywhere there there's more than one button to press. I would like to be able to leave the eye near to the door, but pick up other parts