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The Labyrinth of Keys

By martze

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness354
Theme2252.88
Audio2323.00
Mood2632.89
Humor2802.31
Graphics3193.04
Fun3262.71
Innovation3472.64
Overall3742.83

Comments

ambi 2013-12-17 03:58

The game immediately dies when I try to start it.

playhabit 2013-12-17 20:56

It closes when running for me too. I tried opening it in command and I get the error:

Uncaught exception - load.c<237> : Failed to load library : std.ndll

midnightcreators 2013-12-17 22:26

Same here, can't start the game i-i

riilu 2013-12-17 22:27

The game fails to start :(

martze 2013-12-19 20:37

The game should at least load now.

undonedevs 2013-12-21 18:04

Guys, this is a really good idea, I hope you can finish it!

xerysherry 2013-12-23 04:54

Link is broken!? I can't download...

moosefly 2013-12-23 21:56

Yeah, link does seem to be broken.

martze 2013-12-24 04:21

Sorry, I've been messing around with my website the past few days. I fixed the link. Thanks for letting me know.

dalbinblue 2013-12-24 06:17

I'm still getting a 404 error trying to download the game.

hyde-wyvern 2013-12-24 06:29

Woaaa I love the game title is in Japanese and the graphics are epic! But what I loved the most is the music theme...I love this game good work :)

jaymeemak 2013-12-24 06:41

For some reason the game always starts so high in my screen that I can't grab the top bar and move it around. Otherwise, though, this is an interesting entry - clearly a large and expansive game world, but it's not at all clear what I as a player should be doing once I lose the starting key.

hardgrafter 2014-01-02 21:19

Nice Graphics on title! Interesting game! Well done!

moosefly 2014-01-02 21:43

It's a shame that you couldn't complete the Jam version. Good job nonetheless.

jezzamon 2014-01-02 22:52

Once you use the key on the wrong door you die?????????

garethiw 2014-01-02 23:03

Well, aesthetics wise this game looks awesome, has a lovely Japanese retro vibe going for it. The music is well done too. It's a shame there's not much to do but explore in the Jam version, but nevertheless it's a solid start.

sadiquo 2014-01-03 02:51

I not find the good door :(

oskardevelopment 2014-01-03 11:36

Cool game, though a bit too unforgiving. That restart and using key is with the same key-code is a bit problematic.

tanser 2014-01-03 13:02

I just love the graphics, they remind me of old DOS games, and Im saying that in the best way you can think of! Just I cant understand, why K... its so far away from the arrows or the X...
Anywho, really nice game! Good job. :)

rosa89n20 2014-01-03 14:51

every time when I trigger something to lost my key, I feel lot of trolling lol! but is fun. is just like some crazy nuts hard Mario hacks and AVGN the game that kind of trolling and fun :D

martze 2014-01-03 17:05

@Tanser: Since using your key at the wrong time can cause you to lose the game, I deliberately put it as far away as possible. You can rebind inputs in v1.0 (Windows) anyway.

@oskardevelopment: Since using a key on a door is very context-dependent, it didn't seem like a major problem at the time. Nonetheless, I changed the warp button to W in the final release, and version 1.0 (Windows) lets you rebind inputs.

@Jezzamon: You don't die, exactly, but the game becomes unwinnable, forcing you to restart.

@JaymeeMak: No idea why that's happening, but on Windows you can press Winkey+Left or Right to bring it within reach. It'll make the window the wrong size, but at least you can grab it now. This

novodantis 2014-01-03 18:20

I like the 8 bit feel to it all and the one key mechanic is done well except for one point that confuses me: the K key becomes a warp back after you've used your key. At that point you need to restart anyway as the labyrinth becomes unwinnable (if I'm understanding it correctly), so would it not make sense that k would reset the level too?

martze 2014-01-03 18:25

@Novodantis: If you use your key on a door, it's lost and you must restart the game. If you lose your key to a flying lock enemy, you can warp back to the start and reclaim the key. This issue was resolved in the 1.0 release, in which K is ONLY used for opening doors, W warps back to the start at all times (even if you have the key), and R resets the game entirely.

epb9000 2014-01-03 19:37

That was pretty cool, Darn flying locks stealin' mah keys. I'm going to have to beat this later now though because it's like the flying locks have won. It's nice that 1.0 has a reset mechanic, I was playing 0.5 and having to re-launch the executable every time I picked the wrong door was less than enjoyable.

martze 2014-01-03 23:12

@epb9000: 0.5 is bad, rate it accordingly. Given that there's more than 10 doors, the door is randomly selected each time, and **there's no way to actually figure out which door is the right door**, actually trying to beat 0.5 is an exercise in futility.

myachin 2014-01-04 09:50

great! but quite hard