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How does your game meet GBJam's theme
The game has a very literal interpretation of 'old gold', you're a reawakened skeleton in a dungeon being plundered by pirates, you need to fight them off and collect gold and treasures.
We also wanted to evoke the metaphorical 'old gold' feeling of retro games with interesting worlds full of secrets to explore (debatably successfully because the game was made in 9 days lol)
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Wow, this game is actually able to run on GameBoy hardware! That's very cool. And that has to be tricky to make in so short a time. Well done!
I was not expecting wall-jump mechanics in a game that runs on actual hardware. It took a little to figure them out, but once I did they made sense to me.
The platforming is solid. The floatiness of it does cause some problems on the spike-floor room when the spikes go offscreen just barely, and I land on them because I'm not positioned where I thought I was. But the rest of the time the platforming felt built around the jump well.
I did find that the floating coins sometimes respawn when returning to a room, but they are not collectible after the first time through.
The art and music were solid, though the skeleton's legs not moving in the walk cycle did bother me a little, but that's mostly me being nitpicky.
In all, a fairly simple and effective platformer.
A game with a simple and fun concept that works really well! The idea of having a skeleton searching for gold instead of pirates is genius. Having combat similar to Super Mario would make it even more fun. The soundtrack also does a great job of setting the mood, and the colorful transitions are a really nice touch!
— Casimiro, Monkeys Dynamite
love the simple graphics and the platform jumping mechanics are great. well done.
I like how there is not much hint other than the control and let player explore, the platforming is a bit boring.
Had fun! I liked all of the secret areas and the wall jumping was great
very cool game, and cool interpretation of the theme. I now think all the monsters in all the dungeons in all the games are just fighting for gold, same as the player :)
A highly responsive, fluid, and fun platformer! great pixel art :)
A wonderful smol lil platformer about collecting gold and going on platforms to find stuff. (pls play my game)