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Grave Danger

By extar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1423.6623
Fun1723.5223
Innovation2273.2623
Theme1813.6623
Graphics454.1623
Audio214.0723
Mood683.7823

Comments

kaimon 2023-10-02 13:42

Really funny game, i like the art you made it's actually really cute ! Good job !

jcmonkey 2023-10-02 20:50

interesting game, the one on the ld site didnt quite work for me so i played the html one ont the other site. over all it was a pretty fun game nice job.

zanagi 2023-10-02 21:10

Nice game with clean pixel art, congrats for the submission! My one complaint is that if you dig a hole right on top of the coffin, the tombstone will appear on the tile above player but it can't be seen since the player sprite is blocking the view (I often tried to move up after burying a coffin only to be blocked because I didn't realize that there was a tombstone there now)

halvardo13 2023-10-02 21:19

Very cool game, feels very polished. Also liked the use of the theme!

john-gabriel 2023-10-02 21:23

After I had a go, I sat on the title screen for a while to enjoy the music, and after a while, I noticed a rather _thrilling_ riff. Anyway, I'm not a massive fan of "just stave off the inevitable"-style games, but this one is pretty well done! And I like how the gravestones ramp up the difficulty by making it harder to move around. About my only complaint is that it's sometimes hard to line yourself up properly with the grave you're trying to dig.

kairuma 2023-10-02 23:46

Fun game! But it can be frustrating when a coffin spawns that you can't reach to dig.

sudocoffee 2023-10-03 01:02

It took a minute to realize I needed to hold x to get past the menu screen (mostly my fault). I love all the little visual effects! The gravestones are a neat way to ramp up difficulty.

krynxx 2023-10-03 11:36

Feels really polished and was really fun to play until I trapped myself between tombstones and went game over :D

kenevil1 2023-10-03 17:26

Art style looks super good, and I like your use of music!

johnsensei 2023-10-03 22:55

I laid 41 souls to rest. Don't know how that compares, but I enjoyed the game a lot. If I had one piece of feedback it would be to make the character's hate shorter. I often couldn't see obstacles I was running into while pressing up. But maybe that was intentional?

extar 2023-10-03 23:30

@johnsensei Wow 41 souls is a really good score, I usually get low thirties. Yeah not seeing what's behind/above you can get confusing, and a shorter hat would help. One feature that didn't make it into the jam version was humorous epitaphs on the gravestones when you were next to them--that would probably help too, guess that's one for the post-jam version. Thanks for playing! :)

quasilyte 2023-10-05 13:25

This game is pretty simple, but it was quite enjoyable due to the combination of the sound and visuals.

At some point it becomes really hard to navigate the graveyard and I think this is where your theme interpretation is **burrowed** (giggles).

After I realized that I can dig things from a side, things became a bit easier (this was my 2nd run, score attacked). I made a few mistakes, but I think I wouldn't score more than ~45 anyway.

It's good to see more PICO games as they tend to work quite well in the browser. :D The also have this retro feel that I like.

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quasilyte 2023-10-05 13:27

It's also quite fascinating that you provided so many desktop builds (windows, linux, macos) in addition to the web export. :D

extar 2023-10-05 18:40

@quasilyte Pico-8 makes it really easy to generate various desktop builds, one command gets you Windows, Linux, Apple and Raspberry Pi, another gets you the web build. It makes submission hour a lot less stressful! And yeah, Pico-8 is great for jams like this, feels almost custom-made for making quick little jam games. Glad you enjoyed the game :)

quasilyte 2023-10-05 18:51

@extar Aha, fascinating! I heard about Pico-8 before this jam of course, but never learned any details about it apart from it being "something retro". I learned something new today. :)

zealous-coder 2023-10-05 20:11

Nicely done, I really like the music.

furano 2023-10-06 11:13

Your pico-8 art is really clean!

Great music also.

The only complain I have is sometime two coffi's spawn with a shared tiles, when you dig at that tile only one of the two coffin get transformed in tombstone and the other one is locked.

steiner2001 2023-10-06 13:35

The game offers cool art and music, creating an immersive atmosphere. However, it suffers from somewhat unpredictable path blocking, leaving players feeling like they lack control. Overall, it delivers a unique and enjoyable experience. Loved the Thriller reference.

bloodbane 2023-10-16 14:25

At first, I thought this game is going to be easy until I realized that the gravestones are blocking my path and my space are limited!! Fortunately, I was quick enough to bury the coffins despite the limitation and 57 souls were laid to rest before I went insane. Good game BTW.