Pit Dungeon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.03

You play as John Jr. III, a brave adventurer who seeks to take down the Dead King in the PIT DUNGEON. Descend deeper into the dungeon, collect new items to change your attacks along the way, and defeat the Dead King!

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Controls:

WASD - Move, MOUSE1 - Shoot

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Items: (Your item will turn into The Bullet at the start of a new floor.)

The Bullet - Normal bullets

Omega - 3 Shot burst

Overheat - Hold MOUSE1 to fire a charge shot

Fission - Bullets split into 8 smaller bullets upon impact

Ankh - Full auto firing

Rage - Lower HP results in Increased damage / Fire rate

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Runes: (Runes carry over between floors.)

Alpha - Damage Up

Beta - Health Up

Gamma - Speed Up

Delta - Health Up / Damage Up

Epsilon - Health Up / Speed Up

Zeta - Damage Up / Speed Up

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Known Bugs:

[Fixed] Exit would not open after beating boss

[Fixed] Audio would bug out when too much TNT exploded

[Fixed] Bullets would sometimes not appear at the end of the boss

Bullets sometimes collide with walls behind you if directly against a wall

The player can sometimes get stuck while moving directly against a wall

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Big thanks to these people who played my game on stream!

VIMLARK (Completed in 10 Deaths)

SIMPATHEY (Completed in 12 Deaths)

JITSPOE (Completed in 34 Deaths)

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This was my first ever game jam!

Art/Graphics: TheNutellaFiles

Programming: TheNutellaFiles

Sounds: SFXR

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Genres: action

Tools: sfxr

Comments18

Synthphonia27 Apr 2021, 20:22

pretty cool game! It's satisfying hard :)

YellowKamel27 Apr 2021, 20:35

What it does it does well, great job!

Megastrons27 Apr 2021, 20:36

A good game, maybe a little more difficult than it should be. But I found it fun and I liked the art.

Ryan Dotsikas27 Apr 2021, 20:37

Awesome job! I really enjoyed playing this. It gave me a Binding of Isaac kind of feel with the items and the combat. The shooting was satisfying, it was challenging and the boss was awesome. It did feel like the enemies' shots were quite fast so that sometimes you couldnt dodge them in the narrow passageways, but I was still able to get through. Perhaps it couldve been slightly easier and then you wouldnt need to spawn so much HP. But I still had a great time. Next time maybe just add in a royalty free background music track to spruce it up a bit. Overall, awesome job though!

Sodaro27 Apr 2021, 20:43

Nice fun game! The worst part about the ankh was how weak it made the pew pew feel in comparsion :smile: The only thing missing was a cool song in the background!

jasontherand27 Apr 2021, 21:01

This was very well done! I didnt come across any bugs, and the game was a good challenge the entire time. I think it took like 4 tries to beat the final boss, getting further each time. The levels were maybe a little big to have to restart if you died towards the end, but otherwise it was a nice amount of content and never felt like I was repeating the same thing. Great job!

Nutella.Filesauthor27 Apr 2021, 21:44

@ryan-dotsikas Thanks so much for playing! I was planning on making it less difficult and adding music but ran out of time. The heart pickups have a 50% chance to spawn after killing an enemy, so some floors you get practically no hearts and some floors you get too many.

Nutella.Filesauthor28 Apr 2021, 03:26

@sodaro Thank you for playing! I'm assuming you mean that the Ankh is op compared to the bullet. I gave it a slight damage reduction, but realized about an hour before the jam ended that the reduction wasn't enough. I just rolled with it though, because I've found through my playtesting of the levels that it barely ever spawns (which is weird because all of the items have a 20% chance of spawning.) I also wasn't prioritizing music over gameplay and never ended up adding it in which kinda sucks.

Nutella.Filesauthor28 Apr 2021, 03:31

@jasontherand Thank you! I agree that the levels are a little too big and annoying to restart if you die near the end of the level (especially the 3rd one which is 4x4 rooms) I would've added in a minimap if I had enough time, just to help balance out the large level.

Nutella.Filesauthor28 Apr 2021, 03:32

@megastrons Thank you for the feedback! I agree that the game is a little too hard. I was planning to lower the difficulty but ran out of time.

jitspoe29 Apr 2021, 07:55

- Really solid presentation on your page. Looks really polished!
- Audio was REALLY LOUD.
- I often got hung up on walls. Would be nice if you could move smoothly along them.
- If you're too close to a wall, your shots sometimes hit it, even if you're aiming away.
- The last boss was BRUTAL. Explosions taking multiple HP + making it impossible to pause to avoid bullett patterns was really rough. I did complete it, though.

Nutella.Filesauthor29 Apr 2021, 13:50

@jitspoe Thanks so much for playing my game! I am very sorry about the audio. My computer volume is usually really low so something that sounds relatively quiet to me is super loud to other people.
I also noticed you said something about the inaccuracy of the bullets sometimes. The main reason for this is that the game runs in a 256x240 (NES dimensions) window, so smaller angles don't get registered sometimes. (This is also the main reason for getting caught on walls (as well as why bullets hit the wall behind you. I could only move the point that the bullets fire out of by very small margins because the character is 16x16 and not upscaled in any way.))
I agree that the boss (and the game in general) is pretty hard, but I didn't notice much until after I had finished, because being the programmer I knew exactly how everything functioned.
I scoped a little too big for my first jam (as I was used to doing week-long projects) and had to rush a bit in the end. If I had scoped smaller I could have probably balanced things more and fixed some bugs.

Vimlark29 Apr 2021, 22:55

Great work. Game most feedback to you on stream.

SecretPocketCat30 Apr 2021, 06:00

The game is nice, though there's a few things that would make it better. Ever seen The Art of screenshake by JW of Vlambeer fame (RIP)?
Knockback would be a nice feel thing, but mainly the enemy projectiles should be slower to be actually dodgeable but also less accurate. For that reason I wasn't enjoying some rooms at all as it was mostly just kiting.
The boss was great however.
Also not sure if the weapon rng was bugged for me or not. I got the charged shot once, but then I kept getting the Ankh for the rest of the game and I actually let the boss kill me for about 3 times to get a different weapon.

Nutella.Filesauthor30 Apr 2021, 11:55

@secretpocketcat Thanks for playing! I was planning to add some sort of knockback but I ran out of time. I agree that the projectiles are a bit fast and there's some spots that you almost always have to lose health if you want to kill something. (which was not intended) The weapons randomize on levels 1-2 / 2-3 depending on if you count the tutorial as a level. The boss floor always gives the same item.

Simpathey1 May 2021, 02:42

This game was really fun! Hope it continues, would be cool to add a minimap and some more levels.

LePoulet13 May 2021, 08:34

Nice and polish game. remind me the binding of isaac. Good job for this entry

Derean13 May 2021, 09:50

I liked this! Really nice art, and cool use of sound effects (really appreciated the audio cue for the kamikaze knight)

The boss fight was really difficult, and besides that, the most difficult enemy was the pawn. The shots were really fast so it was difficult to avoid them.

Overall it feels really nice and polished. Great job!