Depths explorer

by paul1379

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Fight, jump and dodge to venture further and further into the depths!

This is my first time participating in ludum dare, but this is my 3rd game jam. I didn't find any very good game ideas, and I sould create something simpler, because the game is much smaller than I wanted. It will probably give you an "incomplete" effect.
Graphics and Sounds are from assets (mostly from Kenney).
I know there is some gaps that appears between tiles, I could not fix the problem (I apologize for that).

Controls

Arrow or WASD to move
Q to attack
Space to jump

Tags: #2d, #unity

Genres: platformer

Tools: Audacity, Unity

Comments10

ToKto7 Apr 2025, 21:31

cool style, comfortable

Monogatari9 Apr 2025, 00:54

It was quite a short experience, once you get the controls it's really fun to find quick ways to go to the end of the game, i found a lot of green orbs but didn't need some after all ? Anyway the idea is nice, the level design is good, good job =)

Paul1379author9 Apr 2025, 05:47

@monogatari There is an NPC that sells a heart to restore life, I wanted to put more items to buy but I couldn't, so there are a lot more green orbs than necessary.I made the level with lots of alternate passages and chests, glad you liked it.

mauzart9 Apr 2025, 18:07

Fun game! But it feels I reach the end real quick just by speedrunning and didn't kill anyone. Maybe I miss something ?
Congrats on your first jam :)

Transkuja9 Apr 2025, 19:15

Nice work for a first jam ! I didn't understood how to kill the flying enemies, so I just ran trying to get as many orbs as possible and reached the end :laughing: I had around 500 orbs !

Civ929 Apr 2025, 20:49

Very short but fun game. I enjoyed the ending. I had a little bug where I interacted with the guy that proposes to restore your health, and then when I interacted with the next chest I had the same pop-up that I was unable to close. Controls are really fluid and I would have enjoyed a second level.

Villeloso10 Apr 2025, 02:20

It's a very cool game to try to rush, I wish it had a time taken function, movement is pretty satisfying

Paul1379author10 Apr 2025, 06:15

@mauzart The game is effectively very short since I focused too much on creating secondary paths when I was creating the level
@transkuja It should be possible to kill the flying ennemies. Someone on discord succeed to hit one, but it caused a bug :laughing: . Collecting the orbs is robably the funniest thing of the game because I took too much tume on placing the chests.

@civ92 Thank you or reporting the bug, I will check it and try to fix it.
@villeloso I will add a time taken timer
Thank you all for playing, rating and leaving a comment!

Eugenik14 Apr 2025, 06:24

It's very fun game !.

MadelineF20 Apr 2025, 17:57

I admit, I found killing the ennemies more difficult than running, so I ran. Collecting orbs was pretty fun !
Nice job !
I enjoyed the ending also.