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GMTK Game Jam 2025

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Karmic StaircaseView game page

Do you trust yourself?
Submitted by GoldenAppler — 1 hour, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#13493.0943.094
Creativity#22333.6793.679
Audio#34802.8682.868
Artwork#45602.8492.849
Enjoyment#53292.5472.547

Ranked from 53 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Time loop: Every time the player goes back up the spiral staircase, they see their past selves . Karma : Desperation in the game is a form of karma, which is the concept of good or bad things coming back to meet you. Spiral staircase: It's a looping staircase

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Font used in game:
DePixel by ingoFonts: https://www.dafont.com/depixel.font

Color palette used in game:
Inspired by eris from Lospec: https://lospec.com/palette-list/eris-overcast-afternoon

All other assets were made by me

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
GoldenAppler

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diannecaoSubmitted1 year ago

Holy the jump scare got me. But this was so cool! I loved the atmosphere and all the little things I can interact with! 

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Threadspace
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DainisssYTSubmitted1 year ago

Well made game, I have unlocked 4 endings as of now.

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Dice Dungeon
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VulKaiiNo1 year ago

Thank you for voting for our game (Loop Boros).

I played a little and I think your game is very good too :)

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DouckdouckSubmitted1 year ago

A very cryptic game! I really enjoyed having to try lots of different things to find all the endings (I admit I would have liked a little counter somewhere to tell me how many endings I had unlocked and how many I had left to unlock. But that's just a minor detail^^). At first, of course, I just went down the stairs. But when I realised the potential of going back up... incredible! There's a lot of humour and unlikely potential!

In short, a very nice experience :D


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A bird's minute
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Jumbob InteractiveSubmitted1 year ago

Interesting concept. Couldn't make it past the third floor though as I kept getting killed... purely down to poor timing on my part!

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Loop Cycle
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blowupthenoobsSubmitted1 year ago

Intriguing idea, however, a bit hard to understand. I kinda didn't like that I had to read the description to find out I was playing the game wrong (going up instead of down.) But I'm curious to come back later to find the other endings.

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Yet Again
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GoldenApplerDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! I have to apologize for the description tutorial. I ran out of time to make a lot of the explanation bits I had planned. Hope you had fun playing and exploring the game!

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adamtherookieSubmitted1 year ago

Really unique game. Replayed it several times to try to get all endings haha. I had to read through the description to understand what I had to do so an in-game tutorial would be nice. The art was good and the SFX were great. Great job!

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Almost Done...
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RobSubmitted1 year ago

Really cool take on the theme! 

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Chrono Paw
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SaphirkkaSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit)

That was wild, that was interesting but I guess there wasn't enough time to polish it. It would be nice to see some tutorial, floor counter and maybe some ending collection/counter + explanation (not always I knew why I got a specific ending). Anyway, it's a very interesting concept and take of the theme, good job!

I also encountered a bug when sometimes The Evil Guy didn't spawn even when I had a full determination.

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An Iteration
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koozinaSubmitted1 year ago

Nice concept, without reading instructions I was stuck in the beginning. May some indicator where am I or so would be nice.

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Show me what you got
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LestavolSubmitted1 year ago

I still wasn't sure what's going on after trying for a while, haha.

I do like the arts and the audio bits quite a lot though. It also didn't seem like it at first but it became kinda creepy afterwards.

One technical issue I ran into was that when I first press "Start" the loading was super long and for a while I only see a black screen with some UI on top so I wasn't sure if the game crashed or it was part of the game or what else was going on.

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Elevator Operator
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ancflSubmitted1 year ago

I'm a bit scared (since I don't usually play horror games)o(╥﹏╥)o
I think the creativity is excellent, and designing so many endings in such a short time for a game jam is really impressive! Good job!d(ﾟ∀ﾟd)

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Rented Farm
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Messy BytesSubmitted1 year ago

Cool game. Could have used some feedback for when you loop floors. At first it didn't seem that much but when you see the full game it gets really creepy. Well done. 

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Qhipan
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Messy BytesSubmitted1 year ago

Cool game. Could have used some feedback for when you loop floors. At first it didn't seem that much but when you see the full game it gets really creepy. Well done. 

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Qhipan
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szia0120Submitted1 year ago

Nice game, with unique idea.

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Past loop
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makzimeSubmitted1 year ago

nice game, very creative concept :)

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Taxi Looper
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GabinarySubmitted1 year ago

Really liked the idea! Took me a while to figure out you could go back up. Nice take on the theme, great work!

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Speed Bandit
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AmenedUwUSubmitted1 year ago

Good idea, it's very creative

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The Morphagon
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Thomas BringerSubmitted1 year ago

Very strange game, seems interesting, but couldn't really figure how to escape the dude chasing me, I just ended up dying quickly every time. Cool take on the theme!

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Noir Hotel
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GoldenApplerDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for playing! Definitely should have communicated this better, but the guy chasing you only appears if your desperation is full / almost full. He's supposed be your future self (implying that you might not be the real you in the loop) who has gotten desperate enough to go back up and hunt you.

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BenimSubmitted1 year ago

Wow such a cool and unique take on the theme, I really love the narrative! 

Well done with all the different endings as well!

I really liked your sounds, they were perfect! Good job :D

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Looped Tapes
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