EMMA by SandBloom
This is EMMA, a dungeon-crawler platformer with poetic and narrative elements. EMMA wants to be a journey that will make the player think and test his skills in a series of tricky levels.
EMMA is primarily an Android game. So if you play on computer, brace yourselves for confusing input.
All was done by us and from scratch for the event. That includes art, music, voice over, script, programming...
Smartphone: TAP = Jump
RIGHT/LEFT SWIPE = Push Box
UP/DOWN SWIPE = Climb or Go Down stairs
PC: (Use the Mouse on the Main menu and Pause Menu)
SPACEBAR = Jump
RIGHT/LEFT ARROW or A/D= Push Box
UP/DOWN ARROW or W/S = Climb or Go Down stairs
UPDATE We added a link to a Post-Jam version if you want to try a version you can actually finish. (In the jam version you can't get past level 2-0
Ratings
| Overall | 548th | 3.05⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 464th | 3.071⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 481th | 3.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 660th | 2.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 267th | 3.452⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 113th | 3.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 242th | 3.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
love your background picture
i just made it to lvl 03
but i'm really bad in plattforming games
This is very hard to control as I didn't really understood what is going on. The game somewhat controls itself on PC. After winning (or dying - I have no idea what happened?) character didn't spawn again at all. Although these might be connected to me actually trying on PC.
Visual style is good, so is music.
Congratulations on making the game!
The controls on PC were terrible, but you said they would :D It was not clear for a while what is the goal - where should I get to. The game could overall build up the difficulty gradually, I felt the timings were relatively tight from the beginning. The way how she runs and I cannot change the direction was frustrating to me.
@zgragselus we weren't aware of the not spawning situation.
@Pavel Smejkal it was a design decision to make them run automatically (and not change direction) so the controls weren't overwhelming on Android. But we had some debate over that point.
And thank you all for the kind words!
PD. World one is possible but very hard. World Two is literally impossible :s
I don't know if this come from the PC version, but there is still somme bugs :
- random green text appearing sometimes
- lock to the level 2-0 with no possible end ?
@Olivier Millochau Thanks a lot man! We're glad you like it. Yeah, for those bugs we are aware but we saw them when it was too late. If you ever would be interested in a version with better control, less bugs and where you can actually finish it, visit the gamejolt page! gamejolt.com/games/EMMA/335756
Tried to play on the PC and on the mobile, overcame two levels, very cruel game.
Well done!
@Tay Elenberg not only is the control unresponsive, the input is weird. We always have the problem to not having time to make the game more intuitive and less difficult.
Thanks everyone :D
This game is very pretty and sounds great. I initially had trouble trying to figure it out (partially my fault for not looking at the controls), but even after I figured it out the game was incredibly difficult. There were spots where it seemed like I was making the jump at the same time, but got different results. I also had difficulty distinguishing background from foreground in places. The mechanic of the ground disappearing once you touch it is great, and not something I've really seen before (unless you count falling platforms).
;-)