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A jam submission

Blake the GhosthunterView game page

Platform-Shooter, where you have to die, to get stronger.
Submitted by Phoenix Games — 3 days, 1 hour before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1403.6713.671
Theme#1773.6003.600
Mechanics#1953.4243.424
Sound#2093.1183.118
Music#3332.9762.976
Story#3452.4472.447
Aesthetics#4183.0823.082

Ranked from 85 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.
Free Pixel Army - Platformer Pack, 2D Pixel Art - Deep Caves 16x16, easy UI emerald - default, Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org

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https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhgvFGElSNX6kHExXrFdzNMKlkUC?e=zB18oY

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Submitted(+2)

I think I lost track of time when I was playing this. Very addicting loop. Every time that I had a good run and made a bunch of upgrades, it felt like what I imagine a super hero feels like trying out their powers for the first time. Great job!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Fun Game!! the effects  was pretty polished but like you said the game play was missing sum balanced and i wish there was certain way to see your in game progress to know wan you get to the boss. Great job!! I know with more time you had perfected  that.

Submitted(+1)

This was fun! Thanks for adding the button. Cool gameplay loop and very satisfying to play😎

Submitted(+1)

Quite fun! I like how you give players the option to maximize their upgrades after perishing three times.  This is a very good foundation if you decide to add more features later on like multiplayer, new enemies, new weapons, etc. Good work! 😀

Submitted(+1)

Played and voted!

I really like the game, specially the roguelike part (upgrades after a death)

Keep it up!

Submitted(+1)

Really good game, with awesome mechanics! I love that you can cancel out the yellow ghost's projectile and that the green one is spawning minions. :) However, the game definitely needs a little more polish. At first I did not realize, that you have a button for giving out lots of points, but it's a really nice touch, because despite the slow build-up anyone can try out the game's full potential. I love the idea to upgrade your stats, but at max the speed and the jumping feels off, the character is a bit too slippery and floaty. Also, the health is a bit too much, to give you a challenge. I encountered a bug, where one of the green ones went and positioned itself under the platform, where I could not attack it, so maybe it would be a good idea to make it reposition after spawning 3 minions. It may make the battle a bit more fluid too. Lastly, I was a bit disappointed because the boss did not have any attack. But apart from everything I had fun and I think it's a great accomplishment to make such game in this short amount of time, so well done and congratulations for your entry! :)

Submitted(+1)

Good little roguelike! Really liked music and sound) Wanna speed up upgrades a little bit! 

Very good game! I had fun :D

Submitted

Really enjoyed this one! Would be cool to see some one time use items in the upgrade menu as well! Something to give you a competitive edge when things get hairy.

Very nice!

Submitted

I like your power-up idea. With time you can make graphics to reflect changes to give players that extra sense of accomplishment. Keep at it!

Submitted

Really like platformers and waves of ghosts.  Nice upgrades for coins.  Felt like I had to play for a long time to get coins as most ghosts didnt drop anything... which meant the upgrades came slow too.  Not being able to jump very much was very limiting at the beginning.  I liked the tltg button but you didnt enforce the max limits on the upgrades and you can keep clicking the tltg button to get more points.  Was pretty funny to zoom, flying and spray a million bullets across the board. :)

Submitted

Great game with nice upgrades, and best of it all... The "I have no time" button. It was still fun afterward to see what else was coming. Great submission.

Developer

That was indeed my intention with the button. If you in a hurry, just look at the game quick, end it and move on to the other 900+ games :P Other invested almost an hour!

Submitted (1 edit)

Seems like we do indeed have a similar game. I've had quite a lot of fun and the pacing of upgrades was great. The only problem I had is that my screen wasn't large enough to fit the entire level even on full screen, but despite that; I had a lot of fun shooting down those unholy ghosts :D

Developer(+1)

Right? :D 

So sorry about the screen... I always have trouble with my screenscaling... don't know why...

Thanks for playing and rating :D

Submitted

Pretty cool! I loved the variety of enemies, and the upgrades were a great way of using the theme. Once I died enough times, I love that you gave a TLTG button lol. It really did help me experience more of the game! Overall, a great submission. Good job :)

Developer

Thanks for the rating and playing!

Submitted(+1)

Great game, good use of the theme, took me a while to level up but I could see myself playing this for longer if I had a definitive score for each play through so many killed etc. it was good to see the enemies getting tougher after time as well. Nice work!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, that would be a great addition!

Submitted

This is a great entry! I appreciate that there is a TLTG button :D I had a lot of fun leaping around the map blasting all the ghosts! The gravity feels a bit floaty, but that's the only thing I noticed that felt off.

Developer

like... superhuman floaty? :P That would be great, but I know it's kinda... not feelig great to play at this stage :D

Yeah I wanted a longer game, but I also wanted that the players have to invest as less time as possible, if they want to test the other 900+ games :D 

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

I played the whole game. It took I think like an hour and a half but I couldn't stop playing. There were a few glitches but overall I think it was really fun and good. The progression was a little slow I think it wasn't too bad. I really enjoyed this game. I bought the red guy 3 times before I was able to beat it :)

Developer

Wow! Why didn't you save some time with the cheatbutton? I feel honored! Thanks a lot!

Submitted

This is cool. You can press the upgrade buttons after they are maxed, I'm not sure if it does any more upgrading, but it does take away points. The bullets can collide with each other and maybe they should not.

Developer

It does indeed :D You can get so powerful the game is gonna get unplayable :D

But I'm happy that you didn't :P

Tnaks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This is a very cool game! The only problem I had was that my screen isn't big enough to see the whole level, even in full screen. Other than that, I had fun shooting ghosts!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback :D

Each year I have a lot of trouble with the screensizes... I don't know why! :(

Submitted

Loved the mechanics a lot! This is a fun gameplay look. I won’t lie, it felt like it took forever for the jump to be useful, I think only damage made a tangible difference after the first upgrade. This is am impressive entry, strong game jam entry!

Developer(+1)

Yeah that jump... thant damned jump...

I heard that a lot :D Thank you for playing, rating and the feedback! I hop you had the same fun as me!

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