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Skellevator by Kahztein

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made by Kahztein for Ludum Dare 57 (JAM)

Legends tell of unimaginable riches at the bottom of this abandoned mineshaft. Additionally, legends tell of an unimaginable amount of rabid undead skeletons guarding the treasure. Surely I can take them on... Right? I work out.

HTML version may have crackling audio when first loaded, sorry about that.

Controls:

  • Arrow keys - move
  • Space/Up - jump
  • Down - drop through platform
  • Z - Attack
  • X - Grab/throw sword ezgif.com-optimize.gif ezgif.com-optimize(1).gif

The team:

@albinobat - Art

@kahztein - Programming/sound

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused restarting levels to not restart enemy waves.

Changelog:

  • Added HTML version of game.

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Link https://kahztein.itch.io/skellevator
Link https://kahztein.itch.io/skellevator
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/skellevator

Ratings

Overall 363th 3.648⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 204th 3.732⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 760th 2.679⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 515th 3.554⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 91th 4.393⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 404th 3.268⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 505th 3.464⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

Myezko
08. Apr 2025 · 12:51 UTC
Pretty amazing. The animations look very good and i love them
pabloa31
09. Apr 2025 · 03:04 UTC
Interesting! I really like the combat mechanics, I struggle a little in the beggining with so many enemies but as soon I mastered throwing the sword (which is pretty enjoyable) I was able to make progress. The animations are pretty cool too, nice work!
apt_prose7
09. Apr 2025 · 03:39 UTC
A man beats, a man rejoices
Ricesteam
09. Apr 2025 · 03:48 UTC
Awesome pixel art. Controls feel very smooth and polished. The combat feels fluid--nice job on that polish. The game has good potential if you were to take it further.
Leophyte
09. Apr 2025 · 07:50 UTC
Cool little game, the animations are super fluid and nice to look at. I wish you could scale the window to you screen easily, that would be a nice QOL addition in the future. Didn't know you could throw the sword until looking at the comments lol
superpokeunicorn
09. Apr 2025 · 08:03 UTC
Neat game! Gets very chaotic, but in a fun way. Liked the sword throwing mechanic, helped mix in a layer of strategy. Last level was pretty tough, hard to even know how to avoid damage with that many enemies, but eventually I pulled through and won. Overall pretty fun. Nice work!
MissSpelled
09. Apr 2025 · 10:06 UTC
Wow! The animation is so smoothe!!! Took some time for me to get used to the controls, but after that it played great :3
Landing the perfect sword throw is soooo satisfying!
Ogladian
10. Apr 2025 · 01:12 UTC
Love the animation, it's really fluid and looks great stylistically. It's also pretty satsifying to line up sword throws and mow down a ton of skeletons in one go :]
PPPPPPPP
10. Apr 2025 · 08:58 UTC
Very interesting game, interesting style! The sound of hitting is very nice. I also invite you to experience my game^-^
Aashen
10. Apr 2025 · 08:58 UTC
Finally a fighting game, what can i say, good job guys, it was fun!
Arthur Tang
10. Apr 2025 · 09:04 UTC
Solid game! Well polished animation and sound. Love it.
TheSmellofOxygen
10. Apr 2025 · 13:01 UTC
Phenomenal, smooth pixel art and snappy movement and combat. A little too simple for prolonged play and no reason to ever jump around the various platforms that I saw. Maybe crossbow skeletons show up later that I missed.
Hoggerhead
10. Apr 2025 · 13:01 UTC
Like it. Love animations and movement. Controls are really heavy to use, want remap!)
LDJam user 243193
10. Apr 2025 · 14:49 UTC
Pretty fun game! I love beating skeletons with swords. I kept getting tempted to throw swords even though I don't have to. But yeah, I could do better next time.
LDJam user 202408
10. Apr 2025 · 16:31 UTC
The combat feels surprisingly satisfying and there seems to be a meta that I couldn't completely figure out but I think staying on the floor helps by giving me more room to wiggle. The game is fairly challenging, I couldn't get past level3 for the life of me, at some point I was just running around like a headless chicken and throwing swords whenever I could :smile:. I wish there was a bit more variety in game mechanics but I guess there is only so much one can do in a game jam. I had fun.
Egor Iv
10. Apr 2025 · 16:40 UTC
best animation!
iPhen
11. Apr 2025 · 23:17 UTC
cool, good animations, liked that the skeletons hats fly off
Glurgludor
12. Apr 2025 · 10:51 UTC
Really fun game and tasty gamefeel!
Haoro
15. Apr 2025 · 19:11 UTC
Nice game, would love to see a more complete version of it !
Garywiss
16. Apr 2025 · 23:42 UTC
Love the animation, it's very smooth and fun, Congrats !