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Pyramid of death

By kedume

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics3343.44
Fun3723.29
Theme4363.69
Overall4453.29
Humor4672.60
Mood5412.95
Innovation7072.93
Audio7382.37

Comments

donan 2014-12-08 09:24

Wow, love the game. Those lava traps at the end are really evil xD.

kedume 2014-12-08 09:29

Yeah :-) Thanks for the comment!

jfreax 2014-12-08 09:31

Looks good. Nice graphic. Good implementation.

At first, at was not easy for me to see whats going on. Plus, its not easy to win ;)

(and honestly, after a while the sound gets a little bit a
annoying :D)

wavertron 2014-12-08 09:32

Neat little game. Cant give any ratings though. Did you Opt Out of them all?...

ekilibr 2014-12-08 09:36

win on the first try, haha !
Well done, the game is pretty fun and the graphi style is good :D

martymon 2014-12-08 09:37

Great game! Kept me hooked till the end!

anikki 2014-12-08 09:39

Nice.

okkolobr 2014-12-08 09:40

Like the minimalistic pixel design. Too bad I can't rate :(

spacedoubt 2014-12-08 09:43

Cool! Love the graphics! Jump sound is a bit loud.

lisac 2014-12-08 09:46

It's not letting me rate this entry and I have no idea why, anyone else having this problem?

I really like this game too, reminds me of Spelunky a little ;)

I'll be back later to see if I can vote.

darkengineer 2014-12-08 10:00

Cool game and great graphics.

qleonetti 2014-12-08 10:02

Fun, hard, and quick to play, good job !

logun 2014-12-08 10:05

We are both egyptian lovers ^^
Very simple and funny game. I tried and retried a lot. But I can't rate it !! Let me know when you solved this problem, I have stars for you.

mrphil 2014-12-08 10:14

Oh man god it's hard. Just getting out of the first level is the next to hardest part! Good game though, challenging and great fit for the theme.

catchthefloaty 2014-12-08 10:15

no ratings make me sad... but cool

davidlv 2014-12-08 10:15

Looks good!

leaden 2014-12-08 10:17

Minimalistic, but holistic. Why you disable voting?

kedume 2014-12-08 10:17

Sorry. I've made op-out the ratings by error :-(

bazld 2014-12-08 10:19

Love this one! Fully embraces the 'one screen' theme, and very playable, tight controls. 5/5 from me :)

aisland 2014-12-08 10:20

This is amazing, i do like the theme. Great
But the first floor has a problem , sometime 'i' can't fall, please fix it.

sh1rogane 2014-12-08 10:27

Good implementation of the theme but it lacks in audio.

lisac 2014-12-08 10:38

Great fun! Came back to vote ;)

norgg 2014-12-08 10:45

Nice! The controls feel just right, you say you've got to escape as many times as you died to win, but I feel like I won just by getting out the once. :P

customphase 2014-12-08 10:49

Pretty cool little game. Not too much in such a low res pixel art though

kedume 2014-12-08 11:13

@Norgg If you escape at first you win. The idea is that is enought dificult to die the first time :-S You are a good player :-)

occamsrazor 2014-12-08 13:52

Man, those lava traps =P

That was a lot of fun, reminds me of those kind of twitchy, timing based platformers like Super Meat Boy. Great work!

fede3751 2014-12-08 17:22

Cool! Breaking the curse is almost impossible! D:
Good job, I enjoyed playing this (Also pixel art and sound were really really cool)!^^

hexagore 2014-12-08 17:22

Love the pixel art and feel of this one :)

mahu 2014-12-08 17:23

nice!!!! Great minimalist game! need more stages!!!!

thommy 2014-12-08 17:26

I like the minimalistic pixel art style. Also the whole "win more often than you died" concept is really cool.

drtizzle 2014-12-08 17:28

Very nice art style! A bit too simple, i beat it 1st try ;)

androniq 2014-12-08 17:38

That was fun. Really nice idea and I love the monster design, especially the ghost following you.
The trapdoors might be slightly too narrow. You can get stuck sometimes and take damage trying to get in exactly the right spot to go down.

eruditespirit 2014-12-08 17:47

Fun little game, lovely graphics, and it's interesting that you need to escape more times than you die to actually win!

woodecker 2014-12-08 18:09

Fun game, like the graphics. Sometimes annoying to fall in holes.

legiion 2014-12-08 18:23

Damn you Ghost xD

von-hunt 2014-12-08 18:30

It's all so tiny! Was kinda hard to see what was going on as you sprint through, it was mostly the incoming bullets that were an issue and luckily their damage was low. Fun little game though, nice simple controls and challenging difficulty to it. Good job

pjimmy 2014-12-08 19:18

cute game, very challeging

babajaga 2014-12-08 19:44

I dig the graphics. Lovely game

doubstract 2014-12-08 19:45

It's easy to get rage quit in this game :). Good job!

designernap 2014-12-08 19:57

Great little game here. did it twice and then decided to stop :) good work though! Nice execution

ali312 2014-12-08 19:58

Preety nice overal)
Took me a while to figure out that I should fall through the hole in the floor

2014-12-08 20:02

Bon jeu mais dommage.

efux 2014-12-08 22:05

Really cool graphics style and I like the egyptian theme and the pyramid.

rabbit 2014-12-08 23:02

I died like 3 times trying to get into the first hole.

dyn 2014-12-09 00:01

Very cool. I kinda hard.

jupitron 2014-12-09 02:02

Excelent graphical style! Fast simple platformer, loved it! Please add some music!!!

blue-thumbs-gaming 2014-12-09 10:26

Using the UP button makes the game screen go up. :(
Ben.

charlesque 2014-12-09 10:42

Love the pixel art. :)

kerdelos 2014-12-09 10:43

Not bad, quite simple concept but good implementation of the theme and very fun ! Thanks !

groydis 2014-12-09 11:02

I like this game a lot, It is incredibly fun to play. Put a timer on it so I can do speed runs!

manou 2014-12-09 11:53

Nice gfx and idea, kinda addictive.

hippolyta 2014-12-09 12:59

Yeah, looks like a game from my childhood! It's neat!

Well done!

leaghorn 2014-12-09 13:45

falling through these holes could be more intuitive. Nice pixel graphics.

daviosmash 2014-12-09 16:41

A really solid game. Of course, wish it had more to it, as the idea, concept, and style was really fun. I would play it a lot more with some depth!

arcturusdeluxe 2014-12-09 17:23

Great game. Simple concept but well executed and really fun. I died more times than I care to admit! Nice pixel aesthetic too.

drludos 2014-12-09 19:17

Nice little game, I love the cute graphics! Good job on creating a level with so many traps on a single screen! ;)

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09 19:43

Loved it from the entrance to the exit. Nice pixel art!!!

endesga 2014-12-09 23:49

awesome game! :D I love it

Hint: Definitely mobile worthy!

soulgame 2014-12-10 10:17

Boom, one shot! Second game I found on this LD with a whole level on one screen and a very tiny character. I still think that's a good idea and it's nicely done here.

fnkee 2014-12-10 12:07

Great game! I have to agree upon that those lava traps at the end are quite unforgiving. If the theme was different, this game would be really fun to play with multiple stages! Good job on this, man (;

zimennik 2014-12-10 12:15

Game is fun. But I was expecting to see some additional difficulties when u complete 1st escape then 2nd etc.
Overall - good.

mrexcessive 2014-12-10 15:55

Hi there. Okay I see the point... it seemed unwinnable, maybe not, but the guns on third tier up kept getting me. Like the sounds. Nice design. Good job!

tritegames 2014-12-11 15:55

Damn, couldn't beat your game yet. But it's a really cool idea and a lot of fun. Well made :)

arkrothe 2014-12-11 18:14

Awesome game all around!!! Would love to see it with randomly generated level for some extra evil points :D

sportsquid 2014-12-13 02:36

Dat lava dough

javabot 2014-12-13 04:06

fun for a moment, but way too easy to beat.

ossi 2014-12-13 04:27

Very cool graphics style and cute sound effects! I really like the way you laid out the obstacles and having that ghost chase you really adds more pressure and challenge. Well done!

meral 2014-12-13 09:27

Cool idea with the escapes/death ration to win. On my first try I didn't realize how to fall trough the whole on the topmost level, because I wasn't standing close enough on it. So the ghost killed me like you planed. :)

This feels very solid. A great entry!

s0rax 2014-12-13 11:10

The graphism are minimalist but, it's not choc me because it's going well with the univers. good entry !

dokthar 2014-12-13 15:32

Nice game, graphics are simple but well done. You made different traps, that good :D. I like the win condition.

_estuardolh 2014-12-13 15:41

level 0 too hard D': haha

bushmango3 2014-12-13 17:11

Fun to play :)

pkenney 2014-12-13 17:52

Wow, you did a lot with one screen here, that's great!

The control scheme was very tight, too. When I got in the zone, a few times I surprised myself by quickly making a set of jumps (for example over the first lava part) perfectly just by reflex. That means your controls were set up well, I think!

I did experience two difficulties. First, the very first time I played the game I started looking at the screen. There was a lot of stuff and I didn't know where my character was. But within a second or two I started to take damage, quickly. I died before I even learned where to look on the screen. Perhaps the ghost should leave you alone in the initial room, and only chase once you pass through the first door. That way a new player can practice the keys and even figure out that he's at the top of the pyramid. Of course this didn't matter anymore once I learned.

The second problem was technical. I tried it in two different browsers, but it happened in both. I kept having trouble getting my guy to fall through the first door. I died many times from the ghost killing me in the first room while I was walking back and forth over the hole and not falling down. Because I died so many times up there, I did not try for the challenge of escaping more than I died - I died WAY more than I escaped. ;)

But those were minor problems and I thought the game was very effective once I got out of that first room. Nice job taking the theme seriously and stretching what you could do!

riocide 2014-12-13 22:20

Overall a really clever idea but I cant get past those 2 large lava pits! Arghhh... Frustrating!

frump 2014-12-15 00:16

Cool idea. I didn't have any trouble escaping. It should have been even harder!

sakergames 2014-12-16 15:17

A really nice one. Well done!