Kingdom of Dies
My first ever game jam entry, Kingdom of Dies for the Wowie Jam 3.0. This is a platformer wherein you need to strategically die in order to use your corpse as an extra platform.
Remember you can use "R" to reset a level at any time!
Asset pack - "A platformer in the forest" by Buch:
https://opengameart.org/users/buch
http://blog-buch.rhcloud.com
Soundtrack - "Industrious Ferret" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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The idea to "skillfully die" fits very well the "failure is progress" theme. I liked the possibility to reset the level at any time, but i do not understand why falling down between the pillars makes the level fail instead of generating a body that i can jump on and makes the idea only applicable to spikes, which is cool, but then i would eliminate the "holes" in between pillars to make the idea more consistent. I liked it, Well done!
I also used music from Kevin MacLeod in my game, he is great!
Check it out https://axiom-gamelabs.itch.io/my-little-fishes
It's impossible to finish the level if you fall down there given that you only have 4 lives, so that's why I put in the insta-kill. I guess I could have left it up to the player to encourage more creativity though, will avoid taking that away in future!
i edited my comment: i meant "skilfully die". A word was missing ;)
Fab as a kebab.
Also forgot to reply to your second paragraph - Kevin MacLeod is brilliant!