Gold Grabber

by f2

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Jump, dodge, and collect all the gold!

For fullscreen: Play on itch.io (or download the game)

Everything was made from scratch in 3 days, except for the art, sound and music.

This is my first time building a platformer, including coding my own character controller.

Controls:
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Arrow keys: Move
Space: Jump

Attributions
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Open Game Art

- Simple Broad-Purpose Tileset (CC0)
- 512 Sound Effects (8-bit style) (CC0)

Google Fonts (SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1)

- Tiny5
- Aldrich

Ovani Sound

- Chiptune Music Pack Vol. 6
- Jingles & Stingers Sound FX Pack Vol. 3

08/10 update:
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- Fixed ladder animation
- Stop timer when completing the game
- Removed a rat (for balance)
- Added more save points (for balance)

Tags: #2d, #difficult, #retro

Genres: platformer

Tools: Godot

Comments34

azahara6 Oct 2025, 21:50

I really appreciated the little tutorial at the start,super helpful! Maybe the jumps are a bit tight (or maybe I'm just terrible at it). The art is lovely and the music fits perfectly.

Ulziton6 Oct 2025, 23:11

like this game, cool one

LDJam user 2828706 Oct 2025, 23:15

This is a great game. Is there only 1 level?

F2_author6 Oct 2025, 23:18

Thanks!
@beebster-games There is indeed only one level - about 5-10 minutes of playtime.

Borbag Uskada6 Oct 2025, 23:37

It's so hard I could not even pass the first real screen after tutorial. Jumps are thights ! But cool mood and nice feeling anyway

naru7 Oct 2025, 01:41

Simple and clean, worth the praise!^^

Kamilah7 Oct 2025, 01:42

The art is awesome and the sound effects are great!! The platforming was pretty difficult for me but I love the idea and it was fun to jump around :)

raysplaceinspace7 Oct 2025, 01:58

It was cool. The artwork did remind me a lot of Super Mario Bros on the NES so much that I did try to break bricks with my head. I found it quite hard though, I think Super Mario has a bit of acceleration whereas your character is either moving at maximum speed left or right or not. I think the acceleration allows you to make small precise steps a bit more easily. Unfortunately I didn't really manage to get much gold as I kept falling into the lava. Good effort though!

JohnStarich7 Oct 2025, 02:24

The tutorial was great, and let me get to playing right away. Love the music and sound effects. The difficulty was far too high for me, perhaps because the rooms aren't very forgiving for small mistakes. Admittedly, I'm not an amazing platformer but I did get stuck for a long time on the 2nd room. Persistence paid off eventually :)

BalimaarTheBassFish7 Oct 2025, 13:43

Thanks for playing my team's humble effort

BorodaOlen7 Oct 2025, 20:22

Pleasant game, convenient controls, fun to play

Custodi8 Oct 2025, 03:21

Pretty good game, with art abs music. Kinda metroidvania style!

Nnnnneeeedddd8 Oct 2025, 15:43

Quite a solid platformer mechanic! Although I don't expect to stop instantly when I'm in the air if I let go of A/D (I used to do that in all my games too tho :rofl: ). You've clearly put some effort into refining it tho blocks all seem solid etc.

F2_author8 Oct 2025, 16:49

@raysplaceinspace @nnnnneeeedddd - Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I chose to make the left/right movement instant, without any build-up, for the crispest possible controls. You push a button, you move instantly at max speed. You let go, you stop. Full control, full precision. However, given your feedback, perhaps a bit of acceleration will feel better. I will experiment with this in my next platformer game. Thanks.

Truedat8 Oct 2025, 18:09

minimalistic pixelart and a platformer whats not to love about it 5 out of 5. had so much fun, i even went up and down the ladder for a bit to make a new rhythm to the base beat haha so kool !

danicoredj8 Oct 2025, 19:47

like a super mario , i like dis game

LDJam user 2828708 Oct 2025, 19:56

What did you use to make the gif that shows game play?

LDJam user 2801898 Oct 2025, 20:34

Really great precision platformer physics and good level design, I really liked how the tutorials showed up in game and how you presented new mechanics to the player and great variety on the number of mechanics. Some levels were a bit difficult but a bit of difficulty is good in these type of games!

Overall solid work and really fun to play.

F2_author8 Oct 2025, 21:31

@beebster-games Windows 11 has a built-in tool called Snipping Tool, which also supports recording video. It can also export to GIF, but those usually have weird lag for me, so I use ffmpeg to convert from MP4 to GIF (simply `ffmpeg.exe -i file.mp4 file.gif`)

LDJam user 2828708 Oct 2025, 22:14

@f2 Thank you brother, I do appreciate it! You have been a huge help.

einfach9 Oct 2025, 03:07

awww！！！I LUVVVVVVV THE CUTE GAMEEEEEE!I’m a huge fan of pixel platformers — games like this always bring back the joy of playing on my 3DS as a kid!!!

MysticGames9 Oct 2025, 08:56

Great game, movement feels nice and levels are good but the game is a bit hard.

Ira Baciu9 Oct 2025, 11:15

Is it possible to make the jump on an arrow? It's a little bit uncomfortable to use space

F2_author9 Oct 2025, 12:02

@ira-baciu - Not currently possible. But alternatively you can use ENTER to jump, or you can use a controller to play (jump on A).

Ira Baciu9 Oct 2025, 12:04

@f2 whoa thanks!!

Eugenik9 Oct 2025, 13:10

Nice, but really hard ... for me :-s.

milq11 Oct 2025, 18:45

I’ve beaten the game! I even love that you can leave the final screen and go back to the original world, hehe. I’m a huge fan of platformers, and this one more than delivers. The level design is fantastic and, for me, the difficulty is just perfect. My sincerest congratulations, I had an absolute blast. What a good entry, great game!

F2_author11 Oct 2025, 23:22

@milq Thank you. I am happy to hear you enjoyed it. :)

Cislaru Corneliu12 Oct 2025, 13:13

one of the hardest game ever,I really like it!

PieRo_PBeS_studio12 Oct 2025, 16:25

classic but effective, I really like the clean graphics and the large levels... the handling is a little stiff and I would have liked more progression in the difficulty... but it's cool I really enjoyed playing it even if I didn't manage to collect all the coins.

Jiri Hysek12 Oct 2025, 17:26

Very solid precision platformer! Controls are super snappy, it has double jump, coyote-time, frustration, everything! Retro vibe is awesome, visuals and audio really fits to it. I don't have enough patience to finish it but I surely tried!

Flying Dog Fish15 Oct 2025, 22:16

That was crazy hard.
I wish the level didn't reset after dying, getting back from the key was often harder than getting to it. I found a little bug: sometimes after respawn you die again immediately.

Anyway, a great retro platformer with nice graphics and a nice soundtrack.

F2_author16 Oct 2025, 00:05

@flying-dog-fish Thank you for playing till the end. I will fix the double death bug in the post-jam version. :)

volcanoeyes22 Oct 2025, 14:18

Great game! Difficulty was quite high and I got stuck on the room with the golden cross. The movement and jumping feels quite nice though, I'm just not very good at the platforming.