The Cursed Tower

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.34
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.84
The Cursed Tower - Ludum Dare 47

Created by Seven Level Games For LD47 COMPO

Your playing as an adventurer which is stuck in a magical sphere.
Your goal is to escape all the tower's floors with different puzzles.
Good luck, adventurer!

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Genres: platformer

Comments19

Somnium
Somnium5 Oct 2020, 08:12
I liked the reversal of death and teleport mechanics, to turn teleportation into a bad thing, and death into a good thing! :-)

A few comments:

A bug I experienced: Sometimes, when hitting a "fake" lava section, I was trapped inside the floor when it appeared. In this case, I had to restart the game.

It was probably not neccessary to block the door during the tutorial. The mechanics are intuitive, even without reading about them.

All in all, it was an interesting platformer :-) I didn't have the platforming skills to get to the end, sadly.
realman27
realman275 Oct 2020, 08:13
It has some cool level design ideas, with creative ways to avoid the blue pads. I also liked the level where you had to teleport the red block to a specific place. But the rules of the levels are often inconsistent with each other. That does fit the name though. The movement needs to be snappier as I often found myself not being as precise with my jumps as I would like to.
Masaru
Masaru5 Oct 2020, 10:10
Really fun game ! The door at the beginning stay closed for too long, that's the only negative thing about it. Well done.
Adil6 Oct 2020, 09:48
I love fonts in this game, they are wonderful. Every level has some interesting ideas, but actually I can't pass 3rd level, maybe I just didn't figure out something. Overall, that's a really good game, but u have no sounds in the game(
SevenLevelGames
SevenLevelGamesauthor6 Oct 2020, 10:15
@adil that's why i checked do not vote my game for audio , thanks for your feedback ! You have to jump down the map it will teleport you to the top that's how you can pass level 3 :)
Nakami
Nakami6 Oct 2020, 10:16
Nice inverted mechanic and puzzle, it nice to revert it in the last level.
The last level is a bit tricky at add to restart couple of time to find the right jump intensity and not die directly.

Also I downloaded the source file by error and see that you have left the _Library_ folder.
When you export your project files or put them on a source control system, you only need: _Assets_, _Packages_ and _ProjectSettings_. All the other folder are regenerated by Unity.
You also don't need any of the _visual studio_ files or folder.
If your are one 2020+ you could add _UserSettings_ but it's not mandatory. ;)
Adil6 Oct 2020, 10:17
@sevenlevelgames oh, thx man, i'll try to play next when i know how to pass this level ;)
djayne
djayne7 Oct 2020, 07:46
Ah yes! Another "Cursed" game... We are a small breed! :) About to start work but I'm bookmarking this for later. Cheers
Fax
Fax7 Oct 2020, 07:55
Great entry for this jam. With some advanced graphics it would be very great. Congratulations.
Garet10 Oct 2020, 16:28
Nice ideas of level-design, of traps and tricks , it was pretty good !

There was a bug at the second level, I was trapped on the white floor with no chance to jump with the spacebar.

Good job
arc1llusion14 Oct 2020, 00:08
Some pretty neat levels in this. Good job!
Jesús González
Jesús González25 Oct 2020, 10:07
Interesting, I found it really fun, and player until the color puzzle, which was impossible for me because I'm color blind.
Pluisjen
Pluisjen25 Oct 2020, 10:49
I felt like the color puzzle was a bit out of place; unless you're familiar with the names of colors like that, it will probably make no sense to the user.

The other puzzles were fun and challenging, but I felt the "stuck in a loop" theme was missing a bit. Only one level required a bit of cleverness with killing yourself to pass, the others were more like generic platformer levels.

Still, solid entry. It seems pretty complete and the challenge level is appropriate.

(And a minor point, but a "quit" button would have been nice. Closing out of games with Alt+F4 feels a bit wrong)
benjamin
benjamin25 Oct 2020, 10:56
The puzzles were fun, not too easy and not too hard at the same time. You could bring a lot more life to your game by just investing a bit of the 48h in the sounds. Just jump / die / success beeps will greatly improve the overal game quality ( I tested the game because of your post but I already have my 20+ rating, so better spend your time on danger zone games :smile: )
island-jam-2-group-325 Oct 2020, 20:43
Entertaining game ;-) If I had a complaint it would be that the tutorial was too long and I hadn't any options for skiping it. Other than that good job!
Yword
Yword27 Oct 2020, 14:32
Cool, I just completed all levels! Interesting gameplay and nice level design. ^_^
TheInkSkeleton
TheInkSkeleton27 Oct 2020, 19:40
Hey, this is really good! A short but really fun game. Graphics were nice enough, and some sounds or music would have made it a lot better. The puzzles were pretty entertaining, there were some I thought were really difficult, and then the solution was right in front of me! That's really good in a game. So overall, you should be pretty proud of your game. Congratulations!

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