Afterwife by Bribz
Follow the tale of a man, traversing the underworld to find his one true love...
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Controls:
E to pick up ghost bride
Space to glide (when in air)
W,A,S,D or Up,Down,Left,Right to move.
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Notes:
-Fixed a bug making the game unplayable.
-Fixed a bug making the first level unable to be played. Should be the last fix.
-I lied. Players can now ACTUALLY quit with Esc.
-Fixed link to OSX download.
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Controls:
E to pick up ghost bride
Space to glide (when in air)
W,A,S,D or Up,Down,Left,Right to move.
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Notes:
-Fixed a bug making the game unplayable.
-Fixed a bug making the first level unable to be played. Should be the last fix.
-I lied. Players can now ACTUALLY quit with Esc.
-Fixed link to OSX download.
Ratings
| Coolness | 44% | 1217 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.00 | 312 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.60 | 340 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.33 | 451 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.05 | 314 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.67 | 191 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.42 | 414 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.95 | 242 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.32 | 416 |
The pixel art is pretty neat.
The way the camera works when you're gliding down makes it really hard to know where you're going to land. If I was going to make one change, it'd be to have the camera go up when you fly up, and then drop way further down as you start falling down.
The walking speed is a bit slow, makes retrying huge parts of the levels painful. More checkpoints would help with this; if you want to go that route.
I got stuck on the second level. After the annoying jump up and the jump over the fire, I ended up in the pit on the other side of the fire, dropped down, pushed the ghost to the door...and then nothing. Seemed like it was just getting to the interesting part, too.
The platforming mechanics were however very frustrating. Very steep learning curve on the gliding which I think most people would not be able to pick up very well. If I'm even understanding how it works, it behaves like a jump which can only be triggered in midair. Works well for falling and steering, but jumping gaps was very difficult and I found myself spamming Space and Up keys because that seemed the best way to ensure that the glide up would trigger.
After I picked up the ghost (which looked very cool btw) and went through the 2nd door, I appeared in the 3rd scene with no ghost, and a seemingly empty scene. I couldn't figure out how to progress from there, as all I could do was fall into emptiness.
In addition to the other things people have mentioned (checkpoints, etc), I'd suggest clarifying the "glide" button prompt in-game (e.g. "tap [space] while in the air to glide), and either adding a prompt for picking up the "ghost-bride," or just doing away with the button and picking her up when you bump into her.
Under license, everything was given due credit, but I will remember to add more thanks to the comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prpT3yuRBHE