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Dead Weight by block97

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made by block97 for LD 43 (JAM)

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Dead Weight is a game where your goal is to find the ladder to advance to the next room.

Use arrow key or WASD to control your monster.

Locked doors can be opened by stepping on the corresponding pressure plate or dropping one of your limbs on top.

Eyeballs can also be place to provide you with stationary vision, however cannot activate pressure plates.

Careful, if you have your limbs detached you will loose blood and if you run out its game over.

Q retracts all your limbs and eyeballs back to your monster, if a limb passes over a pressure plate on the way to your monster it will activate it.

Once you have all your limbs re-attached you will begin healing.

Use R to restart level.

Developed by: Matt, Jacob, Alan, Jon, Dan, Kirubel, Bryan and Peter.

Art and Music by: Will

Source code https://github.com/Turbulence9/LD43
HTML5 (web) http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~matthewn/DeadWeight/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/dead-weight

Ratings

Overall 282th 3.688⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 201th 3.688⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 57th 3.958⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 55th 4.271⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 788th 2.958⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 525th 2.938⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 440th 3⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 507th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

mtanton
04. Dec 2018 · 06:55 UTC
Really creative mechanic! It took me a bit to realize that I could use the magnetic limb reattachment to solve some puzzles. Overall, well designed game with unique gameplay. Nice work!
wowbagger
04. Dec 2018 · 18:56 UTC
@mtanton thanks for the feedback. We were a bit worried that people wouldn't play the game long enough to discover that mechanic. Did you beat all 6 levels?
heyycap
05. Dec 2018 · 01:40 UTC
Agreed about that mechanic! That opens up the possibility for puzzle design.
Dizzy
05. Dec 2018 · 01:45 UTC
Great game, really liked!
Marcos Donnantuoni
05. Dec 2018 · 01:47 UTC
Macabre but good!
burnedkirby
05. Dec 2018 · 01:51 UTC
Pretty good and stable game. Fog of war requires the player to explore to see what the level layout is, and each level is a unique puzzle to reach the goal which was nice. It also made use of all the game mechanics of leaving limbs, leaving eyes, and pulling dropped limbs to the player. Simple and good.
miltonsilva
05. Dec 2018 · 02:08 UTC
O JOGO É BEM CRIATIVO ME PERDI EM ALGUNS MOMENTOS NAO SABIA MUITO O QUE FAZER MAS A IDEIA PROPOSTA FOI BEM COERENTE OTIMO.
Riemann Integrable
05. Dec 2018 · 02:13 UTC
Awesome little game! It's really fun, and such a cool idea!
exper105
07. Dec 2018 · 07:09 UTC
Great mechanic!
selina
07. Dec 2018 · 17:43 UTC
Nice puzzle game, and I liked the sound effects
Lemons
07. Dec 2018 · 17:45 UTC
Nice, I love the mechanics
Jupiter_Hadley
08. Dec 2018 · 13:18 UTC
Interesting concept! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Y2UiyhFvqPg
Arvejeitor
12. Dec 2018 · 15:28 UTC
Funny idea! love the mechanics
appix
14. Dec 2018 · 02:15 UTC
Interesting Game！Using body parts to solve puzzles，great！
vlandemart
14. Dec 2018 · 05:40 UTC
Very good one, I cleared all levels.
Concept is excellent, my only suggestion would be to add more types of puzzles.
arron-fowler
16. Dec 2018 · 12:05 UTC
Good solid entry. All these lost limbs in this jam. All well thought out and put together. I liked the lighting effect esspecially. Great work
Izunah
29. Dec 2018 · 19:56 UTC
Awesome idea, I really enjoyed this game a lot. I think the fog of war was a tad excessive, but it worked to create some really interesting puzzles with your eyes and body parts. A few times I was thinking to myself "how in the world do I solve this?" and thankfully the game is intuitive enough that you get an idea, and can try it, and it can work. You did an awesome job
kiv
29. Dec 2018 · 20:32 UTC
Great mechanics idea and good point on the theme! Really fun to play
lilkrit
29. Dec 2018 · 20:53 UTC
Awesome game! Just one tip - give the option to recover a single body part.
wowbagger
30. Dec 2018 · 17:44 UTC
@lilkrit just out of curiosity was there a level that you thought this would have helped with?
lilkrit
30. Dec 2018 · 17:49 UTC
@wowbagger Anywhere there there's more than one button to press. I would like to be able to leave the eye near to the door, but pick up other parts