Haha fun review to read :D sorry to hear you didn’t get to the last lever. It does require some platforming though for sure. A sneaky tip, when you’re in the big tower room, if you go to to the floor where you turn into a ghost, drop off the side and hold left to get back into the halway, you can then take the stairs all the way to the top where it’s a little easier to jump across to the lever.

I’m glad you enjoyed the game. And yes, our heroic spirit walking character is willing to suspend all disbelief and take the realization of a machine that turns him back and forth from ghost to human all a days stride. We could all learn a lot from his reckless abandon :D

There isn’t much in the way of music to be perfectly honest, It’s a very short loop of only a few bars and it’s quite low in tone, so very possible it was not super audible for some.

Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the project.

Haha thanks for the kind words. Beyond functioning as a sort of ‘score’ they really didn’t have a purpose to be honest. I had ideas for how I wanted them to serve more mechanical purpose, like a kind of fuel allowing you to become a ghost instead of the machines, but by the time I developed that Idea, I didn’t have the time to implement it in a way I was happy with and that felt balanced. It’s definitely my biggest regret in terms of self assessment of the project.

As for the large space, it’s all just a benefit of a tilemap and large brushes, made creating rooms a lot quicker than having to place each tile individually.

Glad you enjoyed the game :)

Sorry to hear you didn’t finish it, I’ll admit there’s definitely room for improvement as far as guiding the player through parts of the game, not being a designer I just had to kind of wing that part and do the best I could. But it’s something I’ve noticed from seeing people play it, and so definitely something for me to try and work on in future projects.

Glad you enjoyed the game though, thanks for the feedback :)

Sorry to hear about the signpost error in the secret room. I think I’ve seen the issue, if you hit the signpost without being on the platform you fall too far away from it, so it doesn’t register the attempt to dismiss. This is an oversight on my part which I’ll have fix up for once the rating stage is over and updates are unlocked.

But thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed playing.

Thanks for the kind words, I too often struggle with platformers so I made sure to give this one a decent bit of input leniency, so there’s a little bit of coyote time and some allowance for pre-jumping.

The theme wasn’t really intended at first, I just started trying to make some backgrounds and it sort of just steered itself that way from the attempts I didn’t hate :D.

There is room for a lot more with the two modes mechanic, like items/pickups that require one state to show or perhaps be used. So definitely some more things for me to try and play around with.

I’m glad you enjoyed the interactive menu area. It’s something I did in one of my first semi-profesional games years ago so wanted to bring it back.

Ahh sorry about that, I can’t build for mac right now, but once the rating stuff is all done and the submissions are unlocked I’ll be more than happy to swap it to a web playable build.

Scratch that, decided to just upload it elsewhere for the time being, and will update the description of the game.

This build was created from the same version that has been uploaded to the jam, so you’re not missing out on anything, or getting anything extra.

http://fatwednesday.co.uk/Jams/Ghostel/index.html

Thanks for the kind words and for playing. I’ve had another user mention a bug pressing E in the secret room as well. Was it a particular sign that you were pressing it on? Not sure why some users seem to get this bug but will be looking into it.

I’ll be trying to go through games this weekend so I’ll put yours on my list.

Ooh interesting, I’ve not encountered that bug, but will take a look into it and see if I can work out what went wrong on your play through.

Glad you enjoyed the game, thanks for taking the time to play it. I’ll be going through a bunch of games this weekend (my god there are so many XD) so I’ll be sure to pop yours on my list to get through.

Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed the game.

Happy to pop your game on my list to play through this weekend.

Thanks for playing, and for the kind words. I’m only an artist by hobby, programmer by trade, so it’s nice to see people like the artwork for my jam games, I try to focus on pushing myself in art on jams just to make a nice change from the day job :D

Yeah the pickups not being more of a core part of the game is probably my biggest regret. My ultimate goal would be to have them used instead of the machines as a sort of currency/fuel that you use to enter into the ghost form. But I didn’t pay it enough attention early on and was not confident in implementing in time once I had realized what I wanted from them.

Thanks for the feedback, and I’m glad you had fun playing the game.

Yeah I’ve noticed in hindsight that I never actually introduce double jumping, I think I just got too used to it being there and didn’t think to put myself in a first time players shoes. In future I’d likely implement a room where you can only proceed with double jumps, and a sign to confirm the feature.

Thanks for the feedback and the kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed playing the game.

Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed playing the game. Having seen some people play it now, there are definitely some changes I’d implement to make things a little clearer for the players, but it was a fun project, hopefully I’ll have some time in the future to play around with it a bit more.

Thanks for playing, glad you had fun. I’ll be trying to get through a bunch of games this weekend so I’ll be sure to add yours to the list.