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Ludum Dare #57jam

Eurydive!

by jack-turpitt
co-authored: @stephenwatson, @tyhal
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.84
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.54
long ago, Orpheus ventured into hades to rescue his wife, Eurydice. Our story begins a few years earlier. Orpheus has fallen into a well and finds his soul trapped in the depths of Hades! Only Eurydice, armed with her trusty bucket, can save him.

Keyboard Controls:
Move: WASD
Select: Spacebar
Dodge (once unlocked): Spacebar

XBox Controls:
Move: Left Joystick
Select: A Button
Dodge (once unlocked): A Button

Hints:
Every 500m down the well you will find a golden souls. Once returned to the surface, these golden souls will become characters in the world, one of them may even be your beloved Orpheus! Move the cursor left and right to highlight a character, and select them to interact with them.

If you are stuck try purchasing some upgrades from the characters to help you along!

Notes:
This is an entry for Ludum Dare 57. It was made by Tyler Hale, Stephen Watson, and Jack Turpitt between the 5th and the 7th of April 2025.
Tools: Godot

Comments31

farzher
farzher8 Apr 2025, 08:55
hold left arrow while descending :)
jachymthegoat8 Apr 2025, 08:56
Great visuals, good music, when i saved a soul, it made a smile on my face, good job!
mremmele8 Apr 2025, 09:00
Really fun game! Thanks for including the tips in the description—they were super helpful. I had a bit of trouble understanding what to do at first before reading it. Also, really cool that there’s progression with upgrades.
GoogleFrog
GoogleFrog8 Apr 2025, 09:23
Amazing entry! I like the push-you-luck aspect of gathering souls on the way down to absorb damage on the way up.
Nuelijarma
Nuelijarma8 Apr 2025, 10:58
Fun game! And it has some potential to be expanded further. Clever use of Orpheus & Eurydice.
NoNumbersGames
NoNumbersGames8 Apr 2025, 12:08
Really cool game! Loved the artstyle, gameplay was fun - swinging mechanic added good challenge to it! Is that Diogenes I rescued there? Why was my man in hell anyway?? :D
Toupaks8 Apr 2025, 15:53
Amazing vibe, the art & animations are cool and the sound design is on point, it feels like a complete work. Cool game ! Swinging on the way up is neat.
auxC
auxC8 Apr 2025, 18:13
Honestly this is a perfect jam game to me. Easy to pickup, fun to play and funny. The drawings and animations have a ton of character as well, kudos for that!
Botch Frivarg
Botch Frivarg8 Apr 2025, 18:21
Fun little experience, did have to figure out I could use extra souls as "shield" but once I got that really got in the swing of it!
JackOfCups
JackOfCups8 Apr 2025, 18:39
Euridyce performed admirably under pressure, never losing confidence for even a second. Fun game!
Erosrolf8 Apr 2025, 19:00
what a cute game, i really liked the animations and sounds. it's cool that there is progression. great game
Grizembrrr
Grizembrrr8 Apr 2025, 19:24
I found my Orpheus!
​I liked playing Eurydice. I loved the "aouch" SFX. Spammed it.

Thanks to the traders, it wasn't too repetitive and the “fails” weren't too punishing.
I'd even just look for white ghosts nearby and get slingshoted.
The two-stage runs are really interesting, with the “life bar” being the ghosts, very meta, very smart.
Thanks for making sure that the white ghosts come out first when you get hit, and so on in ascending order of rank.
threegoldeneggs
threegoldeneggs9 Apr 2025, 00:21
What a cool idea! I had a lot of fun descending in my bucket and searching for my Orpheus.
jtap
jtap9 Apr 2025, 00:57
Great idea, very fun game, sounds are funny. Thanks!
aviolin9 Apr 2025, 01:13
Fun game, cute artwork! The story fit the theme well.
Providence
Providence9 Apr 2025, 16:30
Very cute game. Love how you guys made something simple so engaging! Gotta say dodging the ghosts was more engaging than dodging the demons lol. Very fun to try and grab double blues and skip the guys escorting the greens
sarellano
sarellano9 Apr 2025, 21:49
Art is very cute and the audio/music is quite pleasant as well. It took me a bit to get how to start the game though, so maybe just add a text saying to use spacebar at the beginning. Nice game! :)
braktheman
braktheman9 Apr 2025, 22:23
You keep me hooked to the very end! Progression system really kept me engaged and by the time I was done I felt very skilled at the swinging dodges.

Really nailed every category on this one. Great entry!
xpoho
xpoho10 Apr 2025, 07:23
Very good game! I love the sprites of all these poor soules ^_^
DeepD2eam
DeepD2eam10 Apr 2025, 17:20
Funnny game and cute art!
jddoesdev11 Apr 2025, 19:07
I really enjoyed this and I love the hand drawn aesthetic to it. I would like to somehow have an indication that an attack is about to happen so that I have a little time to react, but everything else was a ton of fun. Great work!
oxnh
oxnh11 Apr 2025, 21:41
Cute art and chill music tastefully contrasts the theme. You can have a chill game about rescuing souls from hell right? However, I did find it annoying when the character bounces off the wall. It makes dodging really hard when you are trying to bring souls back to the surface.
silkworm_sweatshop
silkworm_sweatshop11 Apr 2025, 22:29
Loved it! Really cute art that looks even better in motion. At first I was confused as I didn't get that the main goal was to avoid the ghost so I just kept picking them up :sweat_smile:. I didn't expect an upgrade system and wasn't sure how far it would go, I'd probably play it longer but it felt just right in length. Fun game loop and I like the small differences in both gameplay and mood between going down and up.
ruruie
ruruie12 Apr 2025, 13:14
He _says_ we're never going back but I can't help but notice he gave me another half kilometer of rope...
SaraFilipa
SaraFilipa12 Apr 2025, 18:05
Very cute game. Took me a while to understand the gameplay but that's on me. Feels polished, is a nice take on the game, the art is simply adorable. Well done :)
Koolruz
Koolruz15 Apr 2025, 14:53
This was fun and *very* cute :) I absolutely loved the sound design in general, but I especially loved the way the music changed on the way back up - That song was stuck in my head all morning!

I really enjoyed the shift in gameplay style on the way back up as well - Staying somewhat in control of the frantic swinging physics was a lot of fun :)

Well done!
PieRo_PBeS_studio
PieRo_PBeS_studio18 Apr 2025, 17:52
The idea of ​​the game is nice and there is a lot of humor, it just needs the impacts to be more pronounced and a little nervousness in the controls
RubixNoob13
RubixNoob1324 Apr 2025, 07:36
The sound effects were amazing, even though I'm pretty sure the whooshing noises were just mouth sounds :rofl:

Art style reminds me of old-school flash games, which I'm pretty nostalgic for these days. Fun little game, felt pretty well balanced overall, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Great work!
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