Graveyard Ghost

by jesus-gonzalez

co-authored: @singrid

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.51

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.01

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Made over a weekend for the Ludum Dare 44 Jam.

You're a ghost, infiltrating the Graveyard and trying to steal as much life as possible from the tombs. If you steal enough and find the Final Gate, you might be able to pay the price to come back to life, but beware the evil dog ghosts zombies guarding their remaining life.

Control the ghost with the arrow keys and the Z, X and C keys.

*Features:*
* Cute graphics.
* Engaging gameplay.
* Two powers: invisibility and teleporting.
* Secret rooms.

*Missing or incomplete:*
* More sound effects and music.
* Item pickups.
* More in-game gameplay explaining.
* Better level design. We didn't have enough time to extensively playtest and refine the levels. They also lack greatly of opportunities to use the player powers.

*Credits:*
* Art: Ingrid Peñailillo.
* Programming: Jesús González.
* Music: Kevin MacLeod.

Tags: #2d, #cats, #ghosts, #halloween, #metroidvania, #stealth, #unity

Genres: adventure, platformer

Tools: Unity

Comments19

bigwhiteshogun30 Apr 2019, 10:39

Nice and challenging at times game.Pleasant to look at. My only problem is the vanish mechanic, more then often I would teleport my self back while trying to use this skill.

AndideBob30 Apr 2019, 14:51

A fun little platformer, I love the Graphics and enemy design. Hiding does seem a bit aprubt, but you get used to it.

Good Job!

Roidz30 Apr 2019, 18:09

This game haves way more depth to it then you would expect in the first few moments you start playing.
Music is great, graphics are cute and funny. Gameplay is fun.
Top entry imo.

Dani Desa30 Apr 2019, 19:39

I agree with @roidz , very solid entry. Congrats! I had a good time playing it. The teleport mechanic is a little strange because you don't really know when you are supposed to use it.. Graphics very good and your palette I think really get you in the mood of the game. I'd love to play an extended version of this.

siryakko30 Apr 2019, 20:13

Really cute game, simple working mechanics and nice music, thank you for the game

Nayaki Anandan30 Apr 2019, 23:03

I liked the graphics the best and the fact that I got to be a cat! The music was also catchy. Very polished game overall.

boaheck-artgent1 May 2019, 00:57

This was so cute! the gameplay was a little too slow for me but it was a clever concept overall. Great idea for the theme, well done!

TBaudon1 May 2019, 17:09

Liked the screen title and graphs. Nice idea.
But i got stuck really quick i think i fell somewhere i wasn't supposed to , making the level in the wrong order, couldn't finish the game.

tweedle2 May 2019, 01:53

fantastic art style!

Cem Adiloglu2 May 2019, 09:06

nice graphics, good job

mrjoshuamclean2 May 2019, 22:26

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/419497157?t=00h00m36s

kaeveris4 May 2019, 06:32

Atmosphere of the game is really great. Cool sounds, amazing artstyle, very pleasing to play!

BadRAM4 May 2019, 07:48

I had fun abusing the teleport mechanic. since it doesn't negate your velocity you can set the teleport at the top of your jump, then jump and immediately teleport, then set the teleport one jump height above where the last teleport was set and repeat to basically fly.

miltonsilva4 May 2019, 08:33

I found the game incredible sound was very good perfect fit in the game congratulations.

Jesús Gonzálezauthor5 May 2019, 00:02

@badram I do really like seeing people finding those exploits and trying the game more in-depth than usual, thanks for playing! I'll definitely going to play your game as well.

ProdigalSon5 May 2019, 03:51

The description isn't wrong, this game is pretty to look and has smooth gameplay. I like the color pallet and the everything fits well together. Did get stuck the first time I'm expected to create a teleportation point as it wasn't too obvious about to go to a place where I could not return from unless I teleported but I see ya'll thought about it and put some spikes to kill myself and not get stuck. :up:

My only recommendation other than the list ya'll already made, is that the music is overpowers the sound effects. If there was an option to turn it down a little and I missed it, my bad. Otherwise, I wonder how this game would look like for mobile. Might be a fun mobile platformer.