gravedigger digs graves - 10/10 would dig again
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Controls: Arrow keys to move, hold X to dig graves beneath coffins. Touchscreen and gamepad support.
The souls of the dearly departed must be laid to rest, grave digger. Dig graves for coffins or risk losing your sanity as the cacophony of the dead swells around you. Be careful not to get lost amongst the tombstones.
Originally made for Ludum Dare 54 and HORRORJAM 2023. Killing two birds with one stone. Horrific!
1.0
•Ludum Dare 54 Compo version
1.02
•Tweaked popup display for adjacent coffins
•Popups stay on screen longer
1.03
•Rain
•Made ghosts more dangerous
•Slowed popups
1.04
•Added progress bar to title instructions
I laid 11 souls to rest before meeting my end! Not bad. Hope my gravedigging soul may haunt the next gravedigger a bit before I pass to wherever I'll go next.
Extar responds:
Good job, glad you enjoyed it. 😄
Ummm...call me stupid, but...how do you start the game? I can walk around and dig but the title screen doesn't go away and the game never seems to start. It is an unfinished game jam entry? I can retry later if it gets patched or explained or something.
EDIT: Ok, now I've actually been able to play the game proper by holding down the key. It's a decent little arcade game, but unfortunately I found it rather awkward and frustrating. I like the idea behind the game getting more and more harder since burying creates tombstones that make it more difficult to walk around, but the execution didn't work for me: most of the time it just led to coffins appearing in blocked-off areas or on top of others which made it an inevitable failure.
Extar responds:
You need to hold X to start. :)
I've uploaded a more up-to-date version.
I don't think even grave diggers during the Black Death were this overworked lol
Would like link to game over music.
Extar responds:
It's the theme from Phantasm--classic horror theme. Also used by Entombed as the outro to Left Hand Path, \m/
Got trapped between some tombstones! Nice little time waster!
Extar responds:
Such is the fate of the grave digger. Glad you enjoyed it. 😊
