Dungeons & Curses by Ogniok

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made by Ogniok for LD 43 (JAM)

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In Dungeons & Curses you explore a vast array of procedurally generated dungeons and fight against deadly monsters while trying to find your way out. Search for portals and travel to different dimensions but be aware that each portal requires a toll from you! Sacrifice a part of yourself every time you go through a portal and try to survive the next map weakened and cursed in this reverse dungeon crawler.

Search for an orb hidden in some of the dungeons to lift one of the curses.

Controls: - WSAD - Movement - Arrows - Shooting

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The game was created in 48 hours by a team of four

Ratings

Overall 43th 4.12⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 62th 3.98⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 338th 3.38⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 241th 3.88⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 12th 4.62⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 69th 3.98⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 625th 2.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 95th 3.979⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

InfinityForger9
03. Dec 2018 · 23:24 UTC
This is such a good game!
Gatito deivi
03. Dec 2018 · 23:35 UTC
it's quite aesthetic, I loved the desing. it feels quite weird the way it shoots, not allowing to make a diagonal shoot. Also, some of the curses are really creative, they make the game more interesting than not being able to use the arrows. i did have a good time.
ArmPitPerson
03. Dec 2018 · 23:39 UTC
Any chance to get a Linux build for this one?
🎤 Ogniok
03. Dec 2018 · 23:45 UTC
@armpitperson I can try to make a Linux build tomorrow. I'll let you know if I manage to make one. :)
dwarfaparte
03. Dec 2018 · 23:56 UTC
One of the best I've played so far! Binding of Isaac and Zelda influences are super strong, so the innovation just wasn't quite there like the rest. But overall pretty cool!
Hempuli
04. Dec 2018 · 00:08 UTC
Sweet! My computer wasn't really up to the task, but it was interesting playing the game in any case. Some of sacrifices caugh me off guard, very creative work there! Some of the levels feel like they have a lot of empty rooms and some dead ends. They're very pretty tough. Good work!
frostByte4k
04. Dec 2018 · 00:25 UTC
Let me just say wow this game looks awesome and sounds awesome. However there are big problems the curses slowly make it impossible to see and fight so it feels as if exploration is discouraged. The nonexistent visual transition between floors further discourages exploration making it feel like you haven't moved and when that happens it make the rest of the levels feel like the same place making exploration not only discouraged but boring. This game feels like it was inspired by the binding of isaac, but you must think what makes that game fun. It's fun because it's constantly adding fun new enemies and weapons and power ups. This game takes away the fun power and your vision. Now I know you'll say well it's the theme, but I still think this game is close to being a 5/5 for me. What it's missing is addition as well as the sacrificing already contained. When you sacrifice the speed of bullets make them bigger and do more damage or when you can't shoot in a direction make it to where enemies can't hurt you from that direction. When I first played I thought getting rid of a color channel was cool but that just made the game ugly and didn't afeat gameplay much besides making it less fun. Sorry to ramble I loved you game which is why I wanted to give as much feed back as I could. Good job and good luck.
cax
04. Dec 2018 · 00:28 UTC
Pretty good and original game! Cant realize how to make these cool shoot effects for the jam >_<
Flat-Anchor
04. Dec 2018 · 10:55 UTC
This was great. Found a great exploit. If you stand on one side of the room and fire into the opisite door while running at it any enemy's in the next room and pretty much killed instantly as a barrage of like 6 shots hits them before they move.
Jesper K
04. Dec 2018 · 12:53 UTC
Nice game, like the art and the FX :-)
I experienced that there were a lot of empty rooms, more than 70% of the rooms I encountered had no enemies.
Also shooting diagonally would be an improvement to the shooting controls.
Other than that, it is pretty well made :-)
Piter
04. Dec 2018 · 14:22 UTC
I like the graphic and sound the game a very uncial
Tez
04. Dec 2018 · 16:09 UTC
Awesome game) it's very good. I cant stop plaing it
paulhocker
06. Dec 2018 · 04:41 UTC
very nice zelda like game -- visually stunning -- will be playing again -- thanks for making this
ArmPitPerson
09. Dec 2018 · 13:56 UTC
@ogniok Still would love to see a linux version :D