Down, Down, Down by Gilokko

Ludum Dare 48 Game Jam! Theme: Deeper and deeper.
Based on the book "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" by Lewis Carroll, "Down, Down, Down" is a Narrative/2D Top Down/Platform game, by which I mean it has a little bit of everything, in which you play as a young girl who fell down a rabbit hole while chasing a white rabbit.
Made with GBStudio.
How to play:
- WASD/Arrow Keys: Move
- Z/J/Alt: A
- X/K/Ctrl: B
- Enter: Start
- Shift: Select
Ratings
| Overall | 1024th | 3.458⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1215th | 3.146⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 998th | 3.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 725th | 3.792⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 620th | 3.917⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1158th | 2.729⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 599th | 3.071⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 422th | 3.875⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
The music gets annoying really quickly though
I liked your book-ish graphics and the design in the later sections. I also liked the idea of multiple gameplay styles. I think varying styles like this could be a lot of fun in a fully fleshed out game. This was also a clever use of the theme.
I always try to give at least a little constructive feedback, so like someone else mentioned the music was kind of a weak point. No one particular song stood out, but the songs felt very simple/short. That didn't take away from the game though - it was still fun!
The game ended with a to be continued, so I hope you're able to build this up into the game you envision. Thanks for a fun game!
My only complaint is that the music is only three notes, it gets quite hard on the ears after a while. Otherwise the gameplay works well in it's simplicity and could be expanded upon nicely.
Good luck on continuing with the game if you do that!
Good work!
Only the music was a bit annoying, but its often the case with gameboy games right :)
congrats!!!
Great use of GBstudio and making something that runs on the actual hardware, that must have been a challenge!
Like others pointed out the music is a little too short in loop length and a bit too high pitched in places which made it kind of grating the longer it went on.
The mixtures of gameplay works well though and I enjoyed going from top down to side scrolling platformer. I really enjoyed you turned Alice's tears into enemies, that's very appropriate for the era!
Also nice amount of varied art for the cutscenes, getting all that done in the time frame, hats off to you!
Overall I say this a good foundation to build upon, and hope you continue to work on this after the jam/polish it more and work on the music more/hire a composer since it seems like you did everything yourself!
Great job on finishing!