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A jam submission

Grave TrialsView game page

A short puzzle platformer where you must try to die.
Submitted by Bbomb11 — 18 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Topic#554.0954.095
Simplicity#1044.0954.095
Fun#1773.5713.571
WOWIE!#2393.3333.333
Creativity#2703.4763.476
Sound#3413.0953.095
Visuals#4033.1903.190

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Music Source
I made the music

Credits
Bbomb and EvanDoesDev

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Comments

Submitted

Good concept, easy to understand. I liked how the environment changed and how it could prevent you from finishing the level if you didn't do things in the correct order. :) I also thought the glow effect on everything was a nice touch. Great job!

Submitted

A well made game, I liked how the environment changes depending on what you used to kill yourself so you have to figure out to best path to get the required amount of deaths, nice twist on the topic :)

Submitted

👍

Submitted

Very easy to play, nice level design, good job!

Submitted

Very simple and easy to follow! I enjoyed having to remember which order to die in. I feel like some of the levels were far too easy to win though. Not too shabby at the end of the day! 

Submitted

The art and music go really well together and the mechanic is very fun. It is a bit hard to remember a bunch of different paths to take but I love the particle effects on the player and the movement is very smooth. Great game!

Submitted

Feels nice to play, jumping is really nice and the introduction is well done. The game turns into too much of a memorisation game at some point though, and my memory isnt the best, especially when all the spikes are so close together i find it hard to remember anything, so i had to trial and error some parts.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, graphics and the physics,.

Btw. it feels weird using Left and Right to move and Space to jump to me

Submitted

Very good game, i really like the physics

Submitted

fun twist on the die to progress theme that's common. Nice job. :)

Submitted(+1)

Fun Game! I thought the movement was good and the simple graphics worked. After a while I felt like the puzzles started to get repetitive, but I failed a lot so I'll count that towards the theme of the jam. Impressive number of levels for only 72hrs! 

Submitted

like the fast rate of playing here...

i have similar but differently apply for the theme here you can try my game if you want to see what i mean

Submitted

Interesting idea. I wonder what would happen if when you died you respawned immiediately and the level changed, so that you would have to anticipate what would happen and react quickly.

thats a cool idea

Submitted(+1)

I didnt finish the game but I got so far and my mom called me :D, Great puzzles, cool use of reset button

Submitted

Nice :)

This game is great

thanks

Submitted(+1)

This game is super good, loved everything about it, the puzzles and graphics. Nice job!

Submitted (2 edits)

This game had a neat idea. However, it failed in my opinion due to the very floaty movement and the randomness of gameplay. It feels like there is no challenge and is rather just very tedious having to try levels over and over again. The art is okay. However, it feels like the character sprite is disconnected from the pixel art world. It would look really good if you picked one style and ran with it. Overall 3/5

Developer

I do have to agree with  you about the random nature of the game and trying the levels over and over again. Do to the theme being Failure is progress I thought it would be beneficial to make failing progress by learning the solution. Thank you for taking the time to play and rate the game!

Submitted(+1)

yeah, i fully understand why you did it. however, i feel like it kinda just removes skill - maybe also make the platforming tougher so that you'd have to restart over and over anyways? thanks for responding

Submitted(+1)

Very cool and fun game! love the music and the movement!