Orpheus by Isaac Surfraz
Orpheus is the tragic tale of the legendary poet who travelled to Hades to retrieve his kidnapped love. Enter the underworld and try your best at finding Eurydice but beware of creatures that reside there. They will do anything to get you stuck in a loop and stop you from ever finding your Eurydice.
Controls:
WASD - Move Left click - Throw javelin at location Right click - Dodge
Karolinas first time doing pixel art!
| Youtube | https://made-from-polygons.itch.io/orpheus |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/orpheus |
Ratings
| Overall | 1524th | 2.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1613th | 2.3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1621th | 2.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1611th | 2.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1064th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 976th | 3.225⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Nice Job!
You can sure polish this part in order to make a solid game out of this !
Theres also some balance issues, some artifacts you pickup make you too powerful - we definately are looking at ironing that out. Thanks for the feedback and for playing!
I would recommend you to add some screenshots of the game in the game description.
I found just two bugs:
at the game start if you continue to walk up or down you can go outside of the map

and sometimes if you throw a spear standing close to a wall, the spear instantly disappear.
A little thought on this is that difficulty seems more a consequence of missing or not enough tested mechanics :
- weird collisions
- camera not following the hero fast enough when you are goin down and up (certainly due to the screen aspect ratio)
- missing launch and impact sounds for the javelin
All of these are greatly reduced once you know how to avoid them, and can only be detected with tests for sure, and I'm certain you can fix them very easily! :)
Overall, it was very pleasant to play :)
The music really added to the mood but since you have opted out it's not yours (you should give credit for it).
\+ Nice pixel art
\+ Nice mood
\- Slow attacking
\- Got thrown out in the water first time I played and couldn't get back
Also an advice when you show the "You have died"-message put a timer to disable input for a second or so. Players usually are hammering the keyboard fighting so the message will accidentally be skipped.
Overall nice work for your first game :)