So, this is the very first time I participate here. Actually it is the first game I have taken this far to a relatively polished state without giving up way too early. Also, this is my first attempt at a game in a long while. So I just started off, from scratch, without any ideas, drawing tiles and slowly putting something together. Without any idea in particular, I tried to put my attention towards athmosphere. Actually I had no clue what the purpose of the game would be about 5 hours before finishing. I used a simple tile/blitter class I had written the day before I started with this, the rest is made from scratch in 48 hours, apart from the CC-licensed sound files.
Credits for soundfiles go to: Dan Oberbauer, LunarDrive, jaava73 and nigelcoop all from freesound.org.
There is at least one collision bug I am awarw of, but I don't have time to fix it ;)
The Game:
Necromancy 101
You're a young Neophyte in a magickal secret society. Your Demon Overlord has demanded souls and has sent you to the local cemetery for this purpose. You're on your own now...
Ah, thank you Susan. That's exactly the bug I've been looking for. Can you reproduce it? I can't. :( If I could, I might be able to find out what's wrong...
The rain and other ambiance create a great atmosphere. The game isn't terribly scary, but it is very charming!
Jumping led to a glitch on one of the rooftops (small building, cramped pit in the top with a ghost in it). I jumped and went through the floor. Kept jumping to get unstuck.
Thank you all for your comments. I think I found the bug, but I'll leave the files how I submitted them. It's really not very scary. I didn't have too great ideas about scaryness and just went ahead doing what I could think of. Platform basics kept me busy enough as you see ;)
Except for the falling-through-floors bug, this was really nice. Solid pixel platformer. The rain looked really nice, in particular. I liked how the level exposed me to the world's vocabulary before I had the tools to interact it.
Comments9
Digging out ghosts is great idea, but little dissappointed those did not harm me at all, making it less horror... :(
...well, maybe because due to the end. No, I did not want to work for the evil - NOOOOO!!!! :D
Trying to get screenshot.
Susan
Holding down left arrow key an hitting jump.
Susan
- held down left arrow
- running into wall
- hit up arrow while still holding left arrow
- fell below floor
Susan
Jumping led to a glitch on one of the rooftops (small building, cramped pit in the top with a ghost in it). I jumped and went through the floor. Kept jumping to get unstuck.