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Cursed by Kerr

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made by Kerr for LD 40 (JAM)

Jump your way through the dungeon to collect the cursed gems. Make your opponent drop gems by jumping on their heads. Whomever has the most gems when the time runs out wins. Careful! Each gem collected hinders your movement.!

  • Developer Note: There's no delay on the score screen, so any button pressed at the end of the round will skip the scoring screen :sweat_smile: (Whoops!)

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Players: - Windows - Supports 1 to 4 players (Gamepads highly recommended) - Web - 1 Player vs CPU with Keyboard Only (Sorry!)

Controls:

Keyboard: - WASD: Move - Space or E: Jump - LAlt or Q: Activate Switches - R: Dash

Controller: - Left Stick: Move - A: Jump - X: Activate Switches - B: Dash

Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-cg1oKiZXMCx5yGFzQnoumyRCPaMaNu/view?usp=sharing
HTML5 (web) http://loomisk2.com/LD40/index.html
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/cursed-1

Ratings

Overall 510th 3.5⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 522th 3.368⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 791th 2.923⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 791th 3.145⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 128th 4.288⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Humor 711th 2.632⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Mood 563th 3.289⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 39🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

stencilchris
05. Dec 2017 · 04:01 UTC
The way they jump made me laugh aloud :) Very fun game! Reminiscent of Towerfall
Scout
05. Dec 2017 · 05:24 UTC
great job the only think i saw that could be improved was the climbing walls animation, make it less like rolling up walls
SurprisinglyShockedCat
05. Dec 2017 · 05:32 UTC
Great game. The controls felt weird, but I think that was intentional. Certainly has a learning curve.
nardandas
05. Dec 2017 · 05:33 UTC
Beautiful game, the graphics were wonderful and the sounds were really fun! The movement and jumps felt a bit awkward though. Not the bit with the gems hindering movement, I just didn't feel like I *knew* where my feet were a lot of the time and it made the platforming a bit awkward.
kbjwes77
05. Dec 2017 · 05:59 UTC
Loved the art and the way you jump! Interesting mechanics with the switched and walljumping as well. More levels and a better AI to battle with would have made this a near-perfect game, but I understand the time restraints make those kinds of things unnecessary. Good work, maybe keep working on this!?
Nia
05. Dec 2017 · 06:58 UTC
Beautiful game with great sounds! Took a little to get used to the controls, but really enjoyed the gameplay. Nice work.
chinykian
05. Dec 2017 · 09:16 UTC
Game looks fantastic! I do experience some trouble with the controls though. It feels like the character should be able to jump much higher.
Gao Ming
05. Dec 2017 · 09:17 UTC
The graphics are beautiful. Great work!Sound effects！
juliensnz
05. Dec 2017 · 12:45 UTC
Really cool to play but, it could be nice to have a arrow way to control the player for non-qwerty keyboard. the graphics are awesome
Romain Navazo
05. Dec 2017 · 15:06 UTC
Nice graphics:) It would be cool to have a walljump maybe ?
🎤 Kerr
05. Dec 2017 · 17:16 UTC
@juliensnz Thank you! Our artist worked really hard on the graphics while we kept trying to figure out what we wanted to do. It was no easy task, to be sure. And you're right about the arrow keys, I totally forgot to hook them up to the character controller.
@romain-navazo You can walljump :) Maybe I should add that note to the controls section though... Thanks for the feedback!
kukiri
05. Dec 2017 · 19:49 UTC
The controls are very weird but i kinda like it, i have to learn them. The art is really cool, the gems are just wonderful. Also the jump animation is pretty awesome. Congrats!
HDtv
05. Dec 2017 · 19:54 UTC
I like the mechanic here. A lot of jumping off the walls and such keeps the pace up. I think this would make for a great multiplayer party page.
Bocodillo
06. Dec 2017 · 00:35 UTC
Beautiful game with really nice music and sfx. Had a lot of fun playing once used to the movement & wall jumping. Really good game!
arrigo
06. Dec 2017 · 06:17 UTC
Looks great! Fun to play, gonna try the multiplayer when I can use my pc later!
06. Dec 2017 · 06:21 UTC
Very pretty game and enjoyable soundtrack. I liked the gameplay up to a certain point where my character was immobile. Not sure if this is meant to be a feature, but I started each new match with the number of gems I finished the previous match with. I tried playing multiple rounds against the AI and my character was completely immobile by the third round, so the game was basically unplayable.
RetroSpecter
06. Dec 2017 · 07:50 UTC
I didn't quite get it at first, but I figured it out over time. The cpu is a bit silly and its a bit difficult to jump. Interseting idea and nice visuals though.
wowa
06. Dec 2017 · 09:42 UTC
After understanding how the controlls woks, it was fun to play! Art and music are great. Very well done!
Roy87
06. Dec 2017 · 15:20 UTC
oh congratulation! Nice art! Can I follow it also on indiexpo? Do you have also a page there? This looks great! I looked for the games that used the #LDJAM but I don't find yours. So good luck!! I will hope to make a video about it!
Vandeviere
06. Dec 2017 · 15:54 UTC
A really nice game! Looks nice and feels smooth. Jumping felt weird at first but got used to it quickly. Good job!
Matthew Foley
06. Dec 2017 · 20:23 UTC
Fun little game with some cool retro-inspired music. Not sure how it works with the theme though? Solid entry though so good job :)
Cubeeo
06. Dec 2017 · 20:28 UTC
It's currently unplayable on the web version - it gets to the point where 1 second takes about 4 seconds.
🎤 Kerr
06. Dec 2017 · 20:36 UTC
@Cubeeo That's very odd. Just tested in on several machines here and all seemed to run it OK. What browser were you running it in?
Cubeeo
06. Dec 2017 · 20:44 UTC
chrome
justking144
07. Dec 2017 · 06:52 UTC
Playing on Safari and the screen is black once it loads
ZAX
07. Dec 2017 · 07:37 UTC
Great pixel style keep it up
don't forget to check out my game too :)
Escape
07. Dec 2017 · 08:24 UTC
Fun game with beautiful graphics and great 8-bit sounding music and sound effects. It took me a while to realize that you could wall-jump but otherwise a fun little game. I did the 1-vs-AI but I can definitely see where playing with friends in multiplayer could be a lot of fun. Great job guys! :)
sahilts
07. Dec 2017 · 10:44 UTC
The game is fun and great pixel art , I had only problem controling the player , I didn't knew about wall jump until I saw a comment here,otherwise its a good concept! :thumbsup:
Liquidream
07. Dec 2017 · 12:53 UTC
Great style and fun local multiplayer.
Nice retro music too!
Devastus
07. Dec 2017 · 12:58 UTC
The art is really nice! I really do like the little lighting effects and animations.

The controls are, in my opinion, not precise enough. They feel floaty and the jump height is so small from the very get-go that it feels somewhat frustrating to move around. Luckily the game has walljumping to alleviate that.

The web version worked fine with me on Firefox. In any case, it's a good entry. Well done!
zenmumbler
07. Dec 2017 · 17:27 UTC
The movement is very floaty and characters seems to slide on for a while. Sadly the AI seemed to just get killed or get stuck in an area (web version). Nice visual style and good sound vibe.
randomhuman
07. Dec 2017 · 18:38 UTC
Wow, that is just gorgeous. The rolling up the walls is a strange mechanic but surprisingly effective! Unfortunately the AI opponent was absolutely hopeless, so I'm not sure I really got a good sense of what the game would be like with multiple players.
Eretzoum
07. Dec 2017 · 21:21 UTC
Same as above, weird controls, gorgeous graphics!
paulhocker
15. Dec 2017 · 15:20 UTC
pretty solid game - thanks for adding a computer opponent - nice touch - game feels polished and follows the theme - great game