Beyond Darkness by Raven IX

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made by Raven IX for LD24 (JAM)
Unfortunately we ran out of time...

Initially it was supposed to be a Golden Axe style game where by through trial and error & dying you evolve into various stages of a shadow demon until you can fight your way through.

There are 3 levels but we didn't have time to implement level transitions or a lot of the attack types. There isn't even a health meter.

With more time it could have been better. :)

P.S... Press right-CTRL to punch :)

Feedback

Porpentine
29. Aug 2012 路 04:39 UTC
i found jogging nonchalantly past hordes of slugs and chocolate-covered men to be quite funny...however, the chocolate-covered giant with spear hands stabbed me to death...what a world
VAMflax
29. Aug 2012 路 20:53 UTC
This is a scary, nasty game! In a good way!

First go I tried avoiding everything as I couldn't find an attack. I got to the end and had an army of sick, slimy, spiky things chasing after me!!

Read the above text and thought, oh okay, you're supposed to die. Played the second time died... and nothing happened!

Good though, the creepiness is off the scale!
deejorg
29. Aug 2012 路 21:15 UTC
Really like the mood you set, too bad there's not much gameplay to enjoy it.
馃帳 Raven IX
01. Sep 2012 路 18:09 UTC
Yes, unfortunately we ran out of time. The key thing missing was the death evolution and the 5 phases of becoming a demon like creature over time. :(
Not to worry though, we are making it into a proper game outside of Ludlum Dare. We feel it deserves to be finished as the LD entry failed to deliver the basics in time.
Moops
02. Sep 2012 路 00:12 UTC
Is there some way to play without logging into google?
Beanalby
02. Sep 2012 路 03:58 UTC
For some reason, pressing up made me go up, and pressing down made me go...up? So I couldn't get past the first wall.
NiceAlexanderAS
02. Sep 2012 路 04:14 UTC
I CANT DOWNLOAD THE FILE IDK WHY :\
Spaceoff
02. Sep 2012 路 06:51 UTC
Sadly very lacking in gameplay. About the only thing I can really say from what there is, is the title screen is awesome. The actual in-game graphics are not so stunning.
馃帳 Raven IX
02. Sep 2012 路 13:54 UTC
Login to Google is not required. Simply click download, then confirm the warning about it being too big to scan. Tested here whilst signed out of google.
Kmad
04. Sep 2012 路 12:30 UTC
Tried to run this on Windows 7 64-bit and couldn't get it working. Every time it tries to load I get an error prompt saying "LD24_WIN.exe has stopped working." The errors in the command prompt are that it failed to load the textures for the logo, title and background. It also fails to load the fonts and stops after trying to load mordernantiqua12.fnt. I tried downloading the file again but I get the same error.
sev_inf
06. Sep 2012 路 20:42 UTC
I loved the art style, but game is too incomplete:(
someone
11. Sep 2012 路 14:21 UTC
Both up and down arrow keys seemed to go upwards. It worked correctly with my gamepad though. (running in Wine)