A Web Away: Pure Souls(Demo)
A downloadable game for Windows
Made for the PreggoJam 2024! My very first game!
Lariette is a calm but perky priestess in training. Pure Souls fuel her cult's ancient magic for bringing new life into the world. Help Lariette fulfill her dream of filling her Nursery(and save her hometown in the process!)
don't forget to pickup those pure souls after the enemies pop!
Also, feel free to hang out in the different areas and listen to the music i've made for you.
CONTROLS
Left and right - arrowkey
LEFT and RIGHT
Jump- arrowkey UP
Attack! - Spacebar
Dialogue scroll - ENTER
Restart game environment - TAB
This is my first ever game! It's hardly complete, but as i'm a lover of all things metroidvania, i have plans to make this a MUCH bigger project in the future! If you like my content, consider a donation, i put alot of time into this and really hope to do more content like it in the future. ^_^ I'm pretty proud considering this is my very first atttempt at learning coding, HUZZAH 135 hours in gamemaker studio! I hope you enjoy my efforts. KNOWN BUGS
Lariette gets pretty BIG. and sometimes her butt gets stuck in walls! the only recourse is to restart the game, I apologize! >.<
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awesome game, hope it gets updated!
This is definitely my favorite of the games this year! My only suggestions so far would be to work on that getting stuck in walls problem and change her attack to simply strike in the direction she's facing, not the direction your pressing.
I've gotten stuck on the corners of ledges. Not sure how to unstuck myself without closing out of the game, but it's happened a couple of times.
I love the style, and the main character is charming. Just this one bug is making it difficult to progress.
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, I would advise foregoing the dynamic hitbox, and sticking to a fixed hitbox throughout all sizes. Yes, it may result in some visual clipping at larger sizes, but at least it will maintain the functionality.
i am not able to go over the first wall any idea
you should be able to use wall jumps to scale it.
the game is great but the only problem i have with it is that souls don't recover after dying and reaching a checkpoint
Everything outside of that known bug felt like a fairly decent core, but "sometimes" getting stuck in walls seems like a heavy underestimation to me. The moment you hit 26+ souls, every single wall is now a near-immediate softlock due to the collision mismatch of front and back. Touching a wall at that size means turning around (including via walljump, your only way to climb!) will clip your abdomen into that wall and pin you there until you restart the entire game, every time without fail.
I was curious if there was a larger size, but the best routing i've managed so far is 40 souls before i'm unable to move anywhere else w/o softlocking, and only 32 can be carried to the game-ending NPC. Overall, liked what I saw.
just before meeting 1xt orange demon-guy, it's very easy to get stuck on the wall if You are big enough. This happens (always?) after consuming 2nd mimic.
I got stuck off screen going over a wall
Great to see a platformer! Very promising art too. A couple things I think could be improved on this one are some of the character control/movement things though. The lack of I-frames is a big one. If you take damage, you will continue to take damage every frame. This is compounded by some jumps seemingly being impossible without taking damage.
Another pain point was the attack. It seems to default to attacking to the right, even if the character is facing left. Only if the character is moving left will it attack left. An upward/jump attack would also be nice, seeing how most enemies are flying.
But, overall, the art style was very charming & a gamemaker platformer in the Jam was a breath of fresh air. Great for a first game!