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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #3 | 4.486 | 4.486 |
| Mechanics | #8 | 4.343 | 4.343 |
| Fun | #10 | 4.314 | 4.314 |
| Story | #13 | 4.171 | 4.171 |
| Music | #44 | 3.914 | 3.914 |
| Sound | #74 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Aesthetics | #85 | 4.114 | 4.114 |
Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Art Assets Kronovi sanctumpixel Szadi art. LuizMelo upklyak vectorpocket adwitr Font vrtxrry SFX Timbre michel88 eathanmarkson michael-klier bananplyte
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukdrvru5udbxxzl/Assets.rar?dl=0
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Awesome game!, maybe you have to check the bird corpse i easy to skip the lvl with him
Very good idea!
I love the whole possession mechanic, the only thing I missed was some kind of obstacle instead of only enemies.
Very good job :) I'm impressed!
This game really surprised me - in positive way. One of the few I had tried that really fulfill "Death is only beginning".
Small think (and I wonder if it is not me - because I'm complaining about it in most submitted platformers) - jumping feels little bit strange.
Thanks for Trying it out , i'll try to play more platformer games to get a feel for proper jumping .
A really great job. The entire concept is extremely cool. I would love to see this turn into an actual game.
it was really fun to play this game. good work!
I could not figure out how to crouch so I got stuck pretty early. Would have like to see a person/sorcerer coming to give me a tale first instead of dyeing right away... NIce job.
thanks for your feedback , the player is supposed to kill the fire worm and possess it to pass through the little gap , there is no crouching , i will add a hint
The art in this game is really gorgeous! The music, story, concept everything is great! I had a lot of fun playing it ^-^ Great work!
Thanks ! Glad you enjoyed it !
Wow! Really good job on the idea and mechanics in this. I'm impressed what you managed to get done for the jam. Would be awesome to see the combat and movement tightened up some with their colliders and the feel. But really great. I can see this being a full game. Way to go!
I really liked what you did there! I really felt like each of the characters was very unique with their own personality! And I loved to have a choice in the end! :D On the second level I think it was that if you just stayed in the flying one you could go the whole way from the start to the end of the level and only had to kill the 3 enemies there. Maybe make the cab a little narrower like you did in the next level? :D In the bossfight I would have liked to fight the mage a little bit more although the "puzzle" of having to get through to the archer was a nice touch! Speaking of archers the aiming felt a tad weird that you could only aim infront and it would not automatically flip the character.
Thanks for trying out ! haha yeah the archers bit was just lazy coding due to the time constraint
Great game!
The art is fantastic, and the mechanics are great!
All different types of enemies are good to play with, and they all have their special ability.
Although I found some bugs so here are a list of them:
- some bodies on the ground deal damage, it's very weird some creatures take damage from certain bodies and others don't.
- when changing the creature you entered a level with, the door disappears and the body of the creature disappears too.
- the archer enemy dying animation keeps repeating after dying, only sometimes tho, idk why.
- Enemies walk slower when holding up or down.
- Some levels requires you to kill all the enemies to progress, some don't, I don't think it's a bug, but it's pretty confusing.
- Full-screen doesn't work properly (on the WebGL at least, I didn't test the executable)
- after beating the game and fighting the wizard in the second play through, if you kill yourself the game glitches and spawns 3 ghosts
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That's pretty much it!
Also, great music :D
Thanks a lot for your thorough feedback, it really helps
I love theme <3 Nice work!
Very good entry and nice unique take on the theme
Awesome game. Love the sfx, attacking possessing fx. Very nice game. Well done.
Incredible, the best I've played so far. I liked that you can't really fail. There were a few places that I got stuck because I killed the little grub in a place where I couldn't get to his body or the "bird" but I only had to restart the level not the whole game so I was able to make it all the way to the end. The boss fight was challenging and fun but again I appreciated that even though it got really tough at times, I couldn't lose.
Loved the bit of humour about bugs and rushing, that's really knowing your audience.
My only real criticisms were it was a little too long for a game jam, if there had been 1 more level I would have quit before I got to the boss fight but I was having the most fun of any of the games I've tried so far, I could totally see this developing into a full game. And the font choice made it hard to tell what character to press to restart the level, I thought it was an A but obviously that's a movement key so I just pressed all the buttons on my keyboard til something happened!
Good job ! I think this one of the better submissions which was similar in this style where you swap out different abilities when you die or force exit out of the body. However in yours you added some sort of requirement you have to do in order to proceed. I think turn that into a puzzle and you got yourself something good here.
I did encounter a bug where i could kill the mage at the start and nothing happened. Cause the mage was not hostile enough and i could perma stunlock it.
Thanks for playing , Haha , maybe i should add a secret ending then for that scenario .
Very impressive. I love your game and the mechanics.
Congratulations !
Wow, I really liked it, it was like a drug :D! I really enjoyed it! Congrats!
P.S. One little suggestion, When you are controlling the cost you can't jump, my suggestion is to make the most jump. Many times I had to restart because I missed/misclicked the body and I jumped down without a body to kill the other mobs, and I was tucked there :(. In any case very enjoyable!
Thanks! yeah i noticed that it can be a problem getting stuck, however making the Ghost jump will create other problems in the mechanics , i have uploaded an update where there are more dead bodies laying around so you always have something to possess and don't get stuck, thanks for pointing that out !
Thank you for your reply! yeah, i agree that cand create problems, I think that your fix by adding more corps could be good as well. Thank you!
Hi, I noticed your submission is missing source folders. Your source is everything someone needs to download your game, open it in the game engine, and hit Play to play the game. In your case, your source is missing the Packages and ProjectSettings folders. Here is an example of what your source should look like: https://github.com/icepol/DeathIsOnlyTheBeginning
Thanks for explaining , i have added the packages, project & user settings folders
Yup, it looks good now :)
Congrats on submitting!
I couldnt make it past the first time you exit the body maybe i was missing something not sure.
Liked the idea of body hopping.
Thanks for trying it out , i guess i should make it more clear that you have to possess the fire worm to pass through the small gap
Congrats on completing the jam! I thought it was a great take on the mechanic and you did a great job of forcing the player to "body hop" constantly without making it onerous.