Welcome, Wanderer\nAdventures await you!
\nControls:\nUse Left and Right arrows to walk, Space to jump
\nPress R if you are stuck.
\nCredits:\nCover art by Alisiy @tangreee\nSound design by Katie Spogreeva @Spogr
\n","source":"malec-palec/death-game","stars":29,"comments":[{"at":315624360,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Nice platformer, i especially like the screen-effect and the INCREDIBLE music! Reminds me of the good old Commodore Amiga days.
\nI had great fun playing your game, thx!
\n","games":["Death's Apprentice"]},{"at":315643323,"author":"Katie Spogreeva","login":"Spogree","gh":72438250,"text":"Great platformer and a way immersive atmosphere!
\n","games":["Enchanted Dungeon"]},{"at":315650816,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Love the presentation, especially with the crt shader with blur and everything. The way you start moving much faster horizontally while jumping made it pretty tough to land jumps, but since you can fall through the floor to the ceiling this didn’t affect me too badly. Also wish I didn’t have to start all the way over at room one on death, but otherwise very effective and very well presented!
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":315661212,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"I love the fact my death became a ghost for the next Adventurer. The pits are also a nice game mechanic to learn to use to one’s advantage. Great game!
\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":315735060,"author":"Miguel Ángel Pérez Martínez","login":"zlash","gh":1052438,"twitter":"zurashu","text":"Nice presentation! I wish i discovered earlier that you can fall to reappear from the top. I struggled a lot with the jumps until that!
\n","games":["Deathwish"]},{"at":315888571,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"Great stunning colorful smooth visuals! Great application of 4bit graphics, great shader, nice generative challenging levels, sometimes too hard to pass for me. I look the code. And still awesome that its under 13k but even shaders are not fully minified. Look forward for next versions with new features =M=M=M
\n","games":["13"]},{"at":315953614,"author":"Superman","login":"superman2211","gh":1331864,"text":"Cool game! Reminded me of how I spent my childhood playing on a CRT monitor in Dendy. Simple controls and beautiful graphics)
\n","games":["Survivors"]},{"at":316006849,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"Wow, this game is brilliant!
\nLoved the music track which was really well put together.
\nThe CRT effect works really well and certainly adds to the retro charm!
\nThe platforms felt a little slippery almost like they were made of ice, perhaps a little more friction would make for easy navigation.
\nI assume the levels were auto-generated as I played for ages but didn’t seem to get to an end.
\nThe enemies were good, but I didn’t dare go into the blue swirl.
\nCongratulations on a brilliant entry, I’ll be going back to this one for sure.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316367475,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"Pretty cool, nice music and retro CRT gameplay :)
\n","games":["Putt Till You Die","Don't Die To Ghosts"]},{"at":316751187,"author":"Ben Clark","login":"bencoder","gh":707117,"twitter":"bencoder","text":"Lovely retro arcade style platformer!
\nI got stuck on a level (level 11 but I think they’re generated) that seemed impossible to get to the end of so I pressed “R” but that reset the game :(
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316816175,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"You guys made a sick game! Everything from the cover art to the music and the old stretched tv look, it feels so nice to play. When I fell down a hole first and teleported to the top of the screen I was very happy because I did find the movement pretty hard up until that point. It really opened up the game a lot once I figured it out
\nThe art style is really really nice, adds an obvious arcade feel to the game but still is different enough that you don’t expect a really easy arcade game. The sounds and everything (the death animation) are really nice too
\nAll in all the game feels really nice to play, the movement is a bit hard I think (trying to make long jumps off of only a small ledge) but the fact that levels after 1 are different each time adds another nice level to the game. Congrats on this one!!
\n"},{"at":316869310,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Great platformer, though a bit repetitive after a few levels, but still addictive. Introducing more elements would be great. I had a fun a-ha moment when I realized I didn’t die when I fell in a hole.
\nI think the levels are procedural, which is fun since we don’t see the same level twice, but I did end up with a level where it was impossible to win (at least I think so.) The snake was blocking the chest I needed to open to find the key to the door.
\nThe music and sound effects are great. I don’t feel the music gets repetitive. It’s fun to see that my previous ghost is haunting me. At first, I got a little sad that we start from the beginning every time we die, but it looks like we are playing a new hero, so it fits the narrative.
\nThe movement is a little bit slippery for my taste, but that’s only a personal opinion.
\nThe graphics are good, and the CRT effect is great. Maybe I’ll steal it and modify it a little for next year’s competition. Great game, cool cover art. Could be a NES game.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316929677,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"The CRT effect was so cool! I felt like I was playing on my parent’s old TV. Fun gameplay. The jumping felt a little off. Nice music. The cover art is next level. Great entry
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":316949155,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Love the design, feel of the game and music. Nice CRT effect. Quite tricky to make some of the jumps, have got stuck a few times with no way to the door.
\nReally nice work!
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":317146254,"author":"Shauna Lynch","login":"lynchbyte","gh":61684154,"url":"www.lynchbyte.com","text":"love the retro vibe. gameplay challenging, but not too difficult, just right. the cover art is fantastic.
\n","games":["Tic Tac Woe"]},{"at":317183326,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"As cute as it might be, it would be nice to have a way to disable the CRT scanlines effect, as they are truly annoying for some people.\nOther than than, cute game with great old-school, minimal palette and consistent pixel art design. The dying animation is hilarious. It’s cool that the map warps both from the sides but also top/down. The music is solid too.\nAre the levels randomly generated? That’s genius, considering that they must remain solvable!\nNot sure how well this fits the theme other than “i died”.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":317197000,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"Super cool filter effects on the whole screen. I won the game and died a few times along the way! Really liked the feel and the music.
\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":317283223,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"Love the classic platformer feel to this game! Sometimes some of the boxes are really frustrating to get too, but I feel that is also part of the charm of these types of platformers. Well done.
\n"},{"at":317293987,"author":"Aurélio A. Heckert","login":"aurium","gh":30254,"url":"http://aurium.one","text":"Wonderful! I was thrown 35 years in the past and found myself sitting on the floor 40 centimeters from the TV playing ATARI.
\n","games":["Dungeon Puzzle"]},{"typ":2,"at":317322494,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Ooooo loving the arcade gamer vibe here - it’s great. Having high scores is a great way to encourage players to keep playing and fits nicely with the arcade theme. That and the chiptune music is great, and the sound effects all help with the vibe of this game.
\nControls are relatively intuitive. Would have liked to be able to use the WASD keys as well. I was trying to stay away from the bottom of the screen, but then realised you can actually go straight through it! The infinite nature of the screen made it fun and more of an interesting way to get around.
\nJumping feels way to OP (over powered), but there’s also a double jump that I managed to randomly do at times and this didn’t appear to be consistent.
\nI love you cover artwork, it’s stunning (kudos to Alisiy for that).
\nI liked that not very chest had gold, but that one had a key. Loved that you added in a snake - I can only assume it’s an enemy, but it’s sort of weird because when I deliberately run into it, it’s appeared to kill me as it respawned to level 0, but then I’m a different character. I assume this is part of a randomly generated character which is a great concept. However, in some cases it looked like I powered up and the was able to go back and see my ghost as well as a sword when I last was. This part was a little confusing - so maybe a bit of explanation here about what’s going on would be helpful and would go a long way to building out a back story/narrative.
\nGreat job though! You’ve done a lot with 13kB!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317330723,"author":"Fernando Serrano Garcia","login":"fernandojsg","gh":782511,"url":"http://fernandojsg.com","twitter":"fernandojsg","text":"Really cool graphics, I love the postprocessing oldschool look.\nThe game is also fun and the controls feels pretty good
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