Buried by Books by PaperbackGorilla
A simple platformer with original art, music and code. Experience a bookworm's happy little addiction to books as it slowly grows out of control!
Collect the packages waiting for you at the front door each day and make your way back to your comfy lounge to read.
Move with the A and D keys and space to jump! Open doors with W.
Made for Ludum Dare 40: The more you have, the worse it is!

| Windows | https://paperbackgorilla.itch.io/buried-by-books |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/buried-by-books |
Ratings
| Overall | 179th | 3.842⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 152th | 3.816⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 581th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 172th | 3.974⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 379th | 3.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 256th | 3.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 306th | 3.447⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 263th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 33🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
If you were to update it, I'd definitely add more frames to your walking animation, and add more visual feedback, especially for when you activate a checkpoint, when you die and go back to a checkpoint, and when you go through a door (cutting directly to the next scene is sometimes a bit confusing). There's a few non-optimal things with the mechanics, as well: she stays in the climbing animation even when she's at the top, there is no jump forgiveness (which means letting the player jump off the ledge a little late, almost from midair), and other things that make the normal jumping not feel to great, maybe a bit of floatiness too?
IDK, but the overall idea of this game is absolutely brilliant and I hope you continue to develop it.
A few nitpicks: I thought the animation of the character was a bit out of sync with the controls (sprite stays in bouncing pose for too long), and some of the falling book felt unfair (falling from offscreen).
Overall I enjoyed playing!