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Our Glory Shall Not Descend by sbackus

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made by sbackus for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

A roguelike where instead of starting with a class, equipment, or even a body, you... start with nothing.

Possess the bodies of enemies to gain abilities.

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MacOS: unzip the file. Then run the app. If you get an unknown developer message try this

Windows: You might need to get the windows visual c redistributable

Post-Jam Usability Updates

There are now "post-jam usability update" releases available - These fix some bugs, add numeric keypad support, and improve the in game text, adding some context specific help/hint messages - They make the game easier to understand, but were released after the Jam ended, so you may want to skip them for voting purposes - Your call.

Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45/releases/download/v0.1-beta/mac-OurGloryShallNotDescend.zip
Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45
Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45/releases/download/v0.1-beta/unix-OurGloryShallNotDescend
Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45/releases/download/v0.1-beta/OurGloryShallNotDescend.exe
Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45/releases/download/v0.2-post-ldjam/OurGloryShallNotDescend.exe
Youtube https://github.com/sbackus/LudumDare45/releases/download/v0.2-post-ldjam/mac-OurGloryShallNotDescend.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/our-glory-shall-not-descend

Ratings

Overall 626th 3.389⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 353th 3.528⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 439th 3.361⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 196th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 701th 2.412⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 760th 3.083⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

ThePelranthean
07. Oct 2019 · 13:21 UTC
Feels like a good rogue-like. I enjoy the possession mechanic quite a bit. It changes the strategy used to navigate the dungeon more than I expected.


Thanks for making it!
NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 21:31 UTC
bit hard to understand what the game is about before playing it, definatly cool after playing it though
Bocodillo
07. Oct 2019 · 22:27 UTC
A really cool idea, body swapping from enemy to enemy to defeat them is neat. Especially like how you leave zombies behind!
mort_jack
08. Oct 2019 · 14:25 UTC
Great game! Kinda reminds me of super hot. I'm definitely going to give this one some more play time.
I really love the map discovery you have in your game.
The key layout is a bit weird, but other than that, I can't think of any critiques.
Tenth
08. Oct 2019 · 16:02 UTC
Thanks for playing! We've added a "post-jam usability update", which addresses a crashing bug, adds numeric keypad support, and improves the in-game text and help/context messages - But it was released after the jam was over, so you may want to skip it before voting, depending on how you feel about post-jam patches.
LadyVardoula
25. Oct 2019 · 17:21 UTC
This feels a lot like Angband. I am therefore extremely prejudiced and think this is one of the greatest installments in the ludumverse. You could, however, have provided the other players (who are not fortunate enough to be familiarized with Angband-type games) with a list of controls (pick up item, inventory, etc).
Kowara
28. Oct 2019 · 04:31 UTC
Pretty fun to play! Controls were a bit difficult to figure out since I have no experience in playing this sort of game. Didn't get too far down the levels in the first few playthroughs, but will be playing it again to see how varied the possession targets get.

...Also made it a point to possess and repossess creatures just to see the Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie <insert creature name here> show up on the screen. Might be interesting to have that as a feature where repossessing zombies multiple times creates an accidental Lich Lord. Or something.
FedorL
28. Oct 2019 · 14:33 UTC
Hi! Linux binary looks liek a macos Mach-O 64-bit binary and cant be runned on linux machine :(