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Game Maker's Toolkit Jam

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A jam submission

that Place between Life and DeathView game page

Submitted by iffalsepanic — 13 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#1793.4173.417
Theme#2123.4173.417
Aesthetics#2753.1673.167
Overall#3212.9172.917
Feel#4102.2502.250

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your submission match the theme?
The player's HP has a dual purpose, shifting you between alive and dead, each of which changes the way in which you interact with the world and its inhabitants. Doors may stop the living you, but your spectral form doesn't mind them much.

Third-party resources
Built using Phaser. Everything else made from scratch.

Contributors
Developed by four dads, borrowing whatever spare time they had: Massimo, Joram, Jan and Kris.

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randomphantomSubmitted7 years ago(+1)

That was pretty short, but the mechanic looks very promising! Nice aesthetic too!

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GravityWell
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iffalsepanicDeveloper7 years ago

Thanks so much for the kind words ! We're thinking about exploring the idea further, and making a more complete game. Now that we don't have to rush things, and understand the problem a bit better, I know we can do a much better job.

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Jupiter_Hadley7 years ago(+1)

Good start! I included it in my Game Maker Toolkit’s Game Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)

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iffalsepanicDeveloper7 years ago

Thanks Jupiter ! Very honoured to have appeard in your series. And yeah, the sword is a bit awkward; we just ran out of time. :-)

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Earbender7 years ago (1 edit)

Hi


That is Indeed expected atm.   This was our first game and we only manager to get three levels working.  The fact that you could go throughout the Doors at level 3 in spectre mode is a known bug ;)

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Pixelbyte StudiosSubmitted7 years ago(+1)

Sometimes when going between rooms I would get stuck and be unable to go to the next screen unless I came out of the door and tried again. Aside from that,  I like the art style and would like to see some more rooms and puzzles utilizing this idea.

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Space Boss
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iffalsepanicDeveloper7 years ago

Thanks ! We had some trouble setting up (and mostly debugging) the triggers for the room transitions. We really need to take what we learned and start over.

We may keep working on the game, if life permits. :-)

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jlevstein7 years ago

I really liked the premise and how I had to "die" to pass through doors but gain life to pass through lights.

Pretty buggy so I wasn't able to progress very far though :(

Still, a solid effort overall!

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iffalsepanicDeveloper7 years ago(+1)

Thanks for putting up with the bugs ! We honestly started from scratch, having no experience with the game engine or writing games in general. We're pretty amazed we got this far ourselves.

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