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Curse Collector by bridgs

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made by bridgs for LD 40 (JAM)

animated image of gameplay

You are a curse collector! Your goal is to slay witches to get them to curse you. But the more curses you have, the harder (and overall just sorta crazier) the game gets.

  • Arrow keys: move
  • Z: attack

Try to slay the witch on the other side of the screen. Each witch you slay will curse you. Keep going for as long as you can!

No sound, very little game balance, just a prototype built from a weird idea for a reverse roguelike.!

HTML5 (web) https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30391
Source code on Github https://github.com/bridgs/pico-ludum-dare-40/blob/master/cart.p8
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/curse-collector

Ratings

Overall 510th 3.5⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 583th 3.304⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 467th 3.283⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 166th 3.978⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 460th 3.674⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 405th 3.275⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 506th 3.375⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

TheTopHatNoob
05. Dec 2017 · 00:22 UTC
I really liked this games. Each curse was unique and stacked on to each other become bundles of fun. I think the graphics and aesthetic work well. And the gameplay was fun to do. The lack of sound is definitely felt but the charm of the rest of the game help to carry it on.
eldogg
05. Dec 2017 · 00:23 UTC
This is neat as.

Really innovative and interesting gameplay changes with curses

Fun controls, and the witches attacks look great.
Nilsson
05. Dec 2017 · 00:23 UTC
Fun game, i like the concept and you used the theme quite well, but it was too easy to lose health, or i was just too bad XD Overall i like the game, good job @bridgs.
pinneh
05. Dec 2017 · 00:25 UTC
Awesome! I can't remember what game this /really/ reminds me of but it was fun. There was no audio for me though, that would have been nice. Also (not sure if intended but it felt like a bug) you cant face a direction if you aren't able to move in that direction. Fun though.
Gus the Shark
05. Dec 2017 · 00:26 UTC
Great mood (atmosphere), beautiful pixel art, and actually pretty fun. The options are really limited for the player though. It gets really hard after a few curses, although my strategy became just running for the witch as fast as possible haha
ZhangZhibin
05. Dec 2017 · 03:43 UTC
very interesting game, thought it took me a few minutes to get familiar with the control, you move too slow at the beginning.
jhandsy
05. Dec 2017 · 04:25 UTC
Super fun! I really loved it. The art was lovely, the concept was great, and the theme execution was maybe my favorite so far! My only complaint is that I would like to have a bigger moveset. Maybe a dodge or a charge attack. Really awesome submission!
Fabian Pohl
05. Dec 2017 · 12:47 UTC
Simple Gameplay fitting with a interesting rulechange fitting to the theme, that combines it to much more. It was pretty well and I had fun. Great Concept and good final project.
ahintoflime
05. Dec 2017 · 19:43 UTC
Cute graphics. I loaded into the second level invisible so I died... You should give it sound effects!
arctic_allosaurus
05. Dec 2017 · 19:47 UTC
Game concept was fun, and I liked the graphics. Adding audio would have improved the immersion. Cool game nonetheless
automatonvx
05. Dec 2017 · 19:50 UTC
Really liked it, the weird combinations of curses makes for some strange and interesting (if very short) gameplay and I always the love the low res pico-8 aesthetic and it was nicely done here. I missed the sound too.
Oniwaka
05. Dec 2017 · 19:58 UTC
great concept! i love that you used pico8
Niphram
05. Dec 2017 · 20:21 UTC
I really liked the creativity with most of the curses! (The only one I didn't really like was the 'you do half the damage' curse) Other than that it's a really fun game!
Cruise Elroy
05. Dec 2017 · 21:32 UTC
Well that was certainly something, haha. I always love these kinds of games that stack up as many effects as they can on you, and this one hit me just right in that area. I almost wanna go back and see just how many curses there are. Great game.
rhythmlynx
07. Dec 2017 · 23:17 UTC
Very very cool! The variety and humour in the curses is fantastic, great job!
paulhocker
15. Dec 2017 · 14:45 UTC
good idea but it was very unbalanced - skeletons were too fast and did not give enough room - very nice graphics and like your theme integration - nice game