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A jam submission

A dark escapeView game page

An entry to the game off 2024 game jam with the theme "secret"
Submitted by Harish-Rusum — 7 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 1 person so far
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GitHub repository URL
https://harish-rusum.itch.io/a-dark-escape

Game description
This is a game where the level design is "secret" and you can only see the level structure in a fixed radius around you

Theme interpretation
The whole game was built on the theme interpretation, the fact that the player cant see the entire level at one time influenced the creation of the whole game

Wildcards used (optional)

Speed Run

Make time the enemy

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Comments

Submitted

A wonderful game. I hope you win. Can you rate my game?
Developer

Sure, i would love to, if you dont mind could you also rate mine?

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice, a clean fun platformer with a cool twist. I like the withholding of information. Makes for a fun little replay. Very forgiving platforming which for a game like this is essential so great job there. Level design was pretty on point I felt like most used the gimmick well and didn't punish with it. Music was good. Sound effect served well enough. Overall a really clean, well made game, good job.

Developer

Thank you so much, i was getting prettty scared no one was going to play it without a web build

Submitted(+1)

Yea it's unfortunately really biased towards web games especially for Godot which sometimes throws a security error when you load it on Windows. (I don't think yours did but I've gotten so used to clicking through and running anyway on it). You might throw up a web-build as long as you leave the other one so people can see you uploaded it on time or something. I don't really know. I couldn't get ours running on web because our particle effects were too aggressive haha.

Developer

It should have, because i am using pyinstaller (i use python and pygame) which has the known effect of agitating windows defender. Also believe me when i say i tried getting a web build working, pygbag (the only usable tool for pygame -> wasm) just refused to work.

Submitted(+1)

Oh I didn't even realize it wasn't Godot been playing too many games today. But yea yours threw no warning then. Honestly, getting a Python installer running is always impressive to me I've coded it for years and I still have no idea how to get an exe out of. I'm impressed yours runs so well.

Developer

Thank you so much, i was tempted to use godot but i am participating in this jam mostly as a competition against my friend (link to his submission : https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2024/rate/3148036) and he is using godot. The python exe thing is not hard once you know what to use but web build is still a major pain.

Developer

The sound effects were really lacking though, sorry about that, i just could not find good sfx in time and i just gave up

Submitted(+1)

No worries about sound, I know that's the last thing, a lot of people don't even have sound. It can add a lot to a game but a well tuned game is better than a good sounding game that is borderline impossible I think.