Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
A jam submission

INTO THE SHADOWSView game page

Journey through a realm divided by light and darkness
Submitted by AjayDas — 23 hours, 24 minutes before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

INTO THE SHADOWS's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Controls#54.0004.000
Fun#104.0004.000
Accessibilty#193.4123.412
Overall#323.5383.538
Originality#623.5293.529
Audio#653.0003.000
Theme#753.5883.588
Graphics#773.2353.235

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.3.stable

Wildcards Used
N/A

Game Description
A Puzzle Platformer where you journey through a realm divided by light and darkness. Swap into the shadows to find the escape

How does your game tie into the theme?
Player can swap to the shadow world to navigate through the level

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
ajay__das

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
first godot wild jam

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

Submitted

Fun puzzle platformer with a simple mechanic, very clean. It reminded me a lot of a flash game I played as a kid but I don't remember the name. Nice work!

Submitted

Short and sweet, and a tight mechanic. Love it!

Submitted

This was a really interesting one and fun to play too. I managed to complete the game, after it taking longer than it should have on the last level.

The swapping was really smooth and everything felt tight controls/movement wise. If I had to give any feedback it'd only be (as others have mentioned sorry) the collision for the spikes felt a bit unfair.

Really solid though. Nice one.

Submitted

I really liked this one. Such a clean presentation. The levels were very fun, I played through all of it :)

Now, I can't be the only one that saw this and mentally went "A M O G U S" right? (am I cooked...?)

Developer(+1)

Thanks Jorel ! The Character was just a rectangle in the beginning. And at the end my inside artist said "You don't have enough time and skills to make 2d art and animation" so I just Slapped glasses to yellow box it kinda looked sus! Approved!

Submitted

Nice little puzzle game! I enjoyed it the full way through. 

The controls felt smooth. I liked the use of lighting, too. Though I see the inspiration for flipping sides between light and dark, I would have liked to have seen the theme have a deeper influence on the game mechanics.

I'd second the criticism regarding the spike collision boxes being wider than I expected from the visual queue. I didn't have an issue with the blind jumps as much, as each time I took a leap of faith, I landed on something. The levels reloaded fast enough that 1 or 2 failed blind jumps would have been okay to me.

I thought the design of the puzzles and levels was good. They built up in difficulty at a nice pace, and none seemed too daunting to stop me from continuing forward. The game flowed from beginning to end.

Congrats on your first GWJ entry! Looking forward to what you make in the future.

Developer

Thanks very much for your review Maaack. now that everyone is mentioning it, I felt it too. I'll make spikes hotboxes a bit reasonable and also add more levels. :)

Submitted

What a great and infuriating game! I was stuck on the last two levels longer than I should have. I loved your take on the theme. Greatly done 👍 

Developer

Thanks Prashant! I liked how you added timer into your game to add more tension into your game. I wish I had done the same.

Submitted

No problem, althugh your game doesnt feel empty without the timer

Submitted

I really liked your game, a creative take on the  theme.

My critiques:

- In some levels the player camera is too zoomed in making it hard to land on platforms outside of the screen

- The background music's small loop is really distracting throughout the game

Besides that very good game!

Submitted

Very nice game, I liked the difficulty curve to get you used to the mechanics, and it felt good to play :)

Submitted

Hey great job here! I think it would be beneficial to have a camera zoom control, or to have it automatically zoom in and out at certain points, because there were times that I couldn't see the platform I was supposed to jump or flip over to and I just had to take a leap of faith and guess.

Submitted(+1)

Really neat game. the controls felt great. tho i wish the spikes hitbox was more easily identifiable. other than that, theres no real problems with the game.

funny how the title is like literally opposite to mine.

Submitted

What a fantastic example of less is more! Everything is well polished and feels really great to play.