You are DEATH’s new apprentice.
\nYour training-task is to collect hourglasses, which are hidden everywhere in Death’s domain.
\nBasic controls: WASD or arrow-keys (additional control-keys are explained in the game)
\nNo bitmaps where harmed during making of this game, everything is drawn using lines and rectangles ;-)
\nThe music was created using the magnificent SoundBox of bitsnbites.eu\nYou can listen to it (grab/edit/use it) here: https://sb.bitsnbites.eu/?data=U0JveA4C7du9SkMxFADgk9x7qYiDiIOCw12cfQCX4uQoODo4FFGKu4NLcSmiuDjo5OQzOPeNfIQaaV0Lduot33c4ISQE8gNZQr4OInrRNnkyijx53on4uPuImdxEtBF7GymnXNUpD6Lbrjs-_6uOz38YAAAAAAAAq-Z5lrv15tFxqV40kb7H0d4223WaG8TCGNhEAAAAAAAAOmU67JeMfjS9z3lTnkZuz5v9vzeydG-bAAAAAAAAWCeTm36c_f4Fq-OklFXJFCm3h3WpFLlKadH41xJd9laiy95LAAAAAAAA8E8Xo4jL0VbEVpzOm_I0oj2vHn6fyXJVNzFeMH7cgTU-dfyMHpfsWxUvS_atirFrAgAAAAAA1s4P
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\n"},{"at":315657285,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Well made, consistantly improved levels, nice graphics and some particle affects etc.
\nNice moody sound track and solid graphics.
\nI think a little more speed, zoom in a little, a few more affects and some trick levels would help you improve this but really well done.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":315690437,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Classic platformer, I enjoyed the progression but I was missing a harder level at the end. The timing feature was very interesting, sadly it wasnt explored much. Nice work overall.
\n","games":["EVAC3D"]},{"at":315697075,"author":"Ben Clark","login":"bencoder","gh":707117,"twitter":"bencoder","text":"Lovely platformer, nice design and music - well done!
\nSome platformer QoL improvements could be made - a classic one is to give a small grace period where you can still jump after walking off the edge of the platform - it makes a big difference. Also some way to make the jump feel a little less “floaty”, but that’s really a question of adjusting constants until it feel right
\n"},{"at":315742630,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The game was good and fun to play.
\nThe graphics were good but a little small on screen. The music was very atmospheric for this type of game.\nI really liked the trail left behind the character (I assume that was there and not just my eyes).\nThe particle effects were also a good addition.
\nI liked the puzzle elements and particularly the timed hourglasses.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":315954216,"author":"Superman","login":"superman2211","gh":1331864,"text":"Good setting and theme graphics!
\n","games":["Survivors"]},{"at":316051972,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"Liked the graphics a lot, especially the cute drawing of death. A bit too easy and I would have loved to see concepts not only being introduced but also being reused in more difficult contexts (for example the hourclass timer, which is a clever idea)
\n","games":["Book of Death"]},{"at":316156169,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Nice game, good difficulty curve. I want more levels! (And perhaps larger graphics.)
\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316415544,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Great game, great sound! The graphics are just waaaay too small. It takes just a couple lines of css to scale the canvas, I literally did an inspect element on your canvas and pasted this in the css:
\nwidth: min(100vw, calc(100vh * 8/6));
\nBecause body has a bit of margin I just then removed that and did overflow: hidden. Then the graphics were big enough to enjoy. Obviously space is limited here but three lines of css would have made the game so much better.
\nStill, very fun and polished game with a cool idea! I enjoyed it a lot once I made it bigger :)
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":316592367,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Really cool level design to learn mechanics as levels go by. Cool music, nice ambient and loved the particules for dash, jump.\nClassic platformer game, controls can be a bit tricky sometimes, dash seems to have a reload time, and “space” to jump would have been a better experience!
\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"typ":2,"at":316806486,"author":"Maximilian Schaum","login":"ixam1","gh":74653168,"url":"https://ebay.com","twitter":"ebaytechberlin","text":"Very cool little platformer game. The graphics are solid and fit the theme. The music also supported the atmosphere very well. I played through it in 4 minutes.
\nI particularly enjoyed the way you integrated the tutorial seamlessly into the gameplay. Introducing new mechanics was very smooth.
\nThe levels varied a lot and rose in difficulty steadily but smoothly. The timed hourglasses mechanic was interesting, but unfortunately it was never used apart from the first introduction. But I understand this is a probably more of a time constraint, I am sure you could have made dozens more levels. :)
\nOne thing that others have already mentioned, the play screen is very small, I think it would be better to fill the whole available browser space.
\nOverall very well made game, thats actually fun to play, great job!
\n"},{"at":316983682,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Cute game. Not incredibly challenging but still interesting. Given more time, this could expand to all sorts of special mechanics. The visuals are already quite good. The movements are a bit slow for my taste. Nice music. Kudos for including a good tutorial.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"typ":2,"at":317116720,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"This was fun! Some really well crafted platformer puzzle levels. The controls were pretty good and I felt that I had control over my character.
\n"},{"at":317219099,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"Oh this is really devious! What’s worse than death? The precious seconds I’m loosing to mistimed jumps (and I do that a lot, ahaha. aha… ah). Very well done game, with so many levels and twists!
\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":317228966,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Graphics working well with the theme. I like the progression of the challenges, and the music. I had headphones on, so I could really feel that bass. The particle effects are nice, and some sound effects to accompany them would be even better.\nThe controls were good, but I feel the game could use some extra gravity to sell the jump effect better.
\nI also agree with other comments about scaling the canvas according to window width for a better experience
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":317361600,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"5:38.3! Not too bad for a first try!\nWhat I liked:
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