Guard a lone platform in the depths of a forgotten tomb. Eat adventurers to regain your strength.
Being a random enemy in a platformer, you only have to touch the hero to hurt them. Use the arrow keys to walk, Q and E to lunge in either direction and W to throw bones. Pressing down over a corpse will let you eat it. Enemies become tougher over time, so hold out as long as you can.
Created in Game Maker: Studio
Graphics designed in GraphicsGale and Paint.net
Music and sound created using BeepBox
Coding - Rystech
Graphics, music and additional coding - Drasnus
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 63% |
| #181 | Mood(Jam) | 3.61 |
| #314 | Theme(Jam) | 3.72 |
| #386 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.67 |
| #427 | Audio(Jam) | 3.03 |
| #476 | Overall(Jam) | 3.27 |
| #503 | Fun(Jam) | 3.09 |
| #603 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.91 |
Comments
The mood in this game is great, the words between stages dark, and the flesh feasting animation and accumulating skeletons wonderfully macabre. The gameplay uses a simple but addictive formula. Dig it!
Nice one ! The controls looked a bit too smooth for me, but I liked the concept and the graphics. Well Done :)
I enjoyed the premise and mood.
Became a bit easy for me when I realized you could just stand on people you knocked over. Although, the seventh guy I did that to managed to throw a knife at me while I was standing on him and I flew off the edge.
awesome mood and loved the writtting ( the print screen is one of the best stills i have seen so far :) )
congrats!
The mood and sound in the game are great. I was kinda bad but a fun game nonetheless.
Cool game... but will make me have nightmares, very scary!
Enjoyed how fluid everything felt. Was able to cheese my way through a few levels by throwing bones as they jumped onto the platform. Looks like you tried to take steps against that strategy though, haha.
This game was a whole lot of fun, I really like the whole castlevania feel :D Nice job!
Very strong entry - addictive but difficult gameplay with lovely visuals and atmospheric audio too!
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