The Tomb of Mysteria

by plackett

co-authored: @jarron, @tamagoaway

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.90

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.79

UPDATE: SAVE DATA DOES NOT WORK ON LUDUM DARE SO WE HAVE DISABLED IT, GO TO https://premedlynx.itch.io/tombs-of-mysteria IF YOU WANT TO SAVE

Controls:

A/Left - move left

D/Right - move right

Space - jump

W/Up - interact

R - reset level

Backspace - toggle colorblind mode

Temple exploring game about a puzzled adventurer who ventures into an ancient underground tomb trying to find an artifact, dodging traps and solving puzzles.
Some Sound Effects were used from Pixabay.

Tags: #2d, #pixel art, #puzzle-platformer

Genres: platformer, puzzle

Tools: Godot

Comments6

sepjani8 Apr 2025, 03:12

solid platformer, one small annoying thing - camera behavior when I press jump with fast click

Mirinae8 Apr 2025, 18:16

The red is pretty hard on the eyes after awhile...

Ace179 Apr 2025, 06:10

There are some good ideas here, but their implementation seems a bit chaotic.

Some advice:
- don't restart the music at respawn, in a game where you respawn often, this is extremely annoying ... also, make it loop when it ends.
- there has to be some feedback (visual, audio) when the player gets hit. (I wasn't clear, for a while, if the player could get hit or not)
- use a different visual for locked doors.
- don't introduce, in the same level, the evil spitting boxes AND the spit-activated switches (The current level makes it unclear what the spit actually does ).

Kudos for providing both GNU/Linux version, and a web build!

Plackettauthor9 Apr 2025, 14:27

Hello @ace17, thank you for the kind words! To clarify, there is a different locked door texture when you play it standalone or on the itch.io web build, for some reason we found issues storing save data when we play on the ludum site so idk might be a godot thing. You're completely right about needing some sort of indication for damage and the looping issues with the music, definitely would fix these in a future non-ludum-dare version of the project. Also I run Linux (NixOS) on my device so thats why the linux build was first so I could test stuff easier but overall thank you so much for the advice and I wish you the best in the jam!

hernandack9 Apr 2025, 16:13

Yea, I think I understand the concept and the way you handle the game mechanic as well as some as aspect of the playable part itself, however I could it's bit confusing somehow with the background. Overall it's nice, and visual effects like playing with the texture albedo (godot) or even shader or just change the sprite's Hue whenever it interacts with something that affect the player will be good

slay a stone15 Apr 2025, 17:16

I like the mechanics like switching the gravity. Puzzles that use mechanics like that are always really creative!

The physics felt a bit rough, sometimes it felt like i was suddenly attached to a magnet or sliding on ice.
I also encountered a bug with an invisible wall, I couldn't finish after that: