In this VR game, you play as a grave keeper who must defend the graveyard against hordes of skeletons that have risen from their graves. You will use your precious baseball bat to fend off these undead creatures. Use your flashlight to spot them a bit better in the darkness. Can you survive the night and keep these skeletons from escaping their graves?
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\n","games":["Death Game"]},{"at":316265336,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"I wasn’t able to play this game. Maybe because I don’t have VR? The screen said, “switch to VR to play.”
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316419908,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"This is brilliant in VR. Seriously loved it, the sound, simple but really spooky, the flashlight effect the cardboard skeletons, everything.
\nGreat stuff, cant decide whether to give this 5 stars across the board
\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":316486155,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Great game, nice graphics, shadows are cool, like the duel torch and weapon.
\nBe nice if the weapon had to be swiped rather than just pointed in the right direction.
\nI was unable to ove which is a shame.
\nOver all a good entry.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"typ":2,"at":316651334,"author":"Marc Neuhoff","url":"https://constructarcade.com","twitter":"MCHoff1","text":"How well was the topic of death integrated into the game?\nKeeping death, in the form of skeletons, away with my baseball bat is a very fun idea and takes the fear out of the topic.\nHow well was the game optimized for 13 kilobytes?\nSmart compression\nHow well was the game adapted for WebXR?\nThe integration with WebXR is very well done.\nBy raising my head above the size of the skeletons, it was no longer possible for the skeletons to hit me. Reaching special places by moving towards them would add to the immersive experience.\nHow is the design of the game?\nThe design is good and fits very well with the setting. Furthermore, it supports the theme to be able to attribute some humor.\nAll objects are 2D and still have a lot of potential to become actual objects.\nHow is the game interface (intuitive)?\nIt is clear what to do, kick some skeleton butts.\nThe baseball bat has a longer range compared to the flashlight, so you can use the baseball bat to keep the skeletons at a distance more efficiently.\nThe light improves my vision, but cannot do anything else.\nHow is the game experience, getting started, understanding, fun?\nScary, very spooky scenario makes me feel the immersive experience very well. That is very well done.\nWhat is my reward for surviving a round? Why do I want to survive? The game has a tendency to be more of an experience than a game. This is reinforced by the fact that there is no reason to play again once you reach the end.
\n"},{"at":316692375,"author":"Krzysztof Bociurko","login":"chanibal","gh":697605,"url":"https://chanibal.pl","text":"Simple game with nice graphics and right on theme. Maybe a bit too simple? Swing your bat like a madman so skeletons don’t get too close. But the skeletons just all walk towards you and you don’t even know when you’re dead. Some skeleton attack animation or very simple AI would greatly enhance the experience.\nThe flashlight is great and adds a lot of atmosphere.
\n"},{"at":316828335,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"This game failed to load up for me on FF, so couldn’t play it.
\nUncaught (in promise) TypeError: u.baseExperience is undefined\ncreateScene https://play.js13kgames.com/deathkeeper/ line 1 > eval:1
\nSource map error: Error: request failed with status 404\nResource URL: https://js13kgames.com/webxr-src/2022/babylon.js\nSource Map URL: babylon.js.map
\nOn Chrome it just told me to switch to VR.
\nSorry wasn’t able to get it to play as I don’t have VR.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"typ":2,"at":316932208,"author":"Josh Marinacci","login":"joshmarinacci","gh":276938,"url":"http://joshondesign.com/","text":"I enjoyed the game and thought the graphics of paper thin skeletons was adorable. Bonus points for making it work well on WebXR in a standalone headset. I like that each round takes place in a different spot.
\nWhat I didn’t like was that you can’t move around and your bat is short, so you can’t really target the skeletons until they are right up on you. I also would have liked some more sounds of the skeletons as they get closer to you.
\nI think you should keep working on the game, adding more types of monsters and weapons and a countdown for how long is left in the current round.
\n"},{"at":317152818,"author":"Shauna Lynch","login":"lynchbyte","gh":61684154,"url":"www.lynchbyte.com","text":"Great graphics, very spooky. And the eery audio is really good. Maybe the zombies could approach faster.
\n","games":["Tic Tac Woe"]},{"at":317184096,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"I don’t have a VR headset, but I went looking for videos of this game.\nLooks pretty awesome and scary, not sure this VR experience is for everyone!!\nThe skeletons seem to be cylinders which is an innovative way of making them look more 3D.\nSeems fun, but a bit repetitive. Nonetheless great job.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":317194768,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Couldn’t play the game due to VR, but what have seen is a nice pixel art, well done
\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"typ":2,"at":317295685,"author":"Fernando Serrano Garcia","login":"fernandojsg","gh":782511,"url":"http://fernandojsg.com","twitter":"fernandojsg","text":"I really like this one, the graphics looks great, especially the lighting.\nIt feels great crushing these skeletons with the bat! I see a lot of potential for an iteration here
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317329502,"author":"Sébastien Vandenberghe","login":"sebavanmicrosoft","gh":17340329,"url":"https://babylonjs.com","twitter":"babylonjs","text":"I love the overall spooky halloween-ish style of the game.
\nThe torch lit area makes it really interesting in term of visual style and I have to admit a rising ghost even startled me.
\nWell done for this great entry !!!\nThe audio helped a lot with immersion and it is overall a great integration with Babylon.
\nThe only downside is that it felt like a survival experience without a clear goal making the game repetitive pretty quickly.
\n"},{"at":317331526,"author":"Stanisław Małolepszy","login":"stasm","gh":265818,"url":"https://piesku.com","twitter":"stas","text":"Very immersive, I loved the torchlight as well as the environment design. I wish there was a bit more action – as it is, the skeletons are rather easy to kill.
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