Parum

Neat game! I included it in my GM48: One Tool, Many Uses compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/le9JcWgAZag

Pretty much what everybody else has already said. Endless spawn, bit difficult, first boulder a bit non-intuitive, great music.

And extra points for style. I love games that have consistent style to them, which this one did.

I enjoyed my playthrough of the game but I would note there were a couple points that got pretty difficult. The first major roadblock being one of the corridors toward the end right before the black ghost, the spawn rate just seemed to high. Also not to mention I accidentally made the end game far more difficult on myself not upgrading my pickaxe with the shockwave as I cashed in all my coins for more health. Though after a restart of the game and getting the upgrade made it an enjoyable experience.

Will note the graphics were pretty good and the song that played through out was pretty solid. The ending though left a little to be desired but overall a good submission.

I enjoyed the experience, but it was far too difficult. Particularly, the black ghosts were an endless spawn of pain and misery. I also felt like the pickaxe should have been slightly extended with an invisible hitbox to be more forgiving when the player tries to hit the enemies. The boss wasn't so hard once I figured out how to eliminate the ghosts. The black ghosts spawning endlessly even though I left their spawn point behind was the worst.

Other than that, the puzzles were solid! (Though, the first boulder was kind of oddly placed and unintuitive to move in my opinion.) Still, you definitely did a great job meeting the jam's theme. Plenty of uses for sure. The music was really good and memorable, always a plus. Kind of dissapointed that there wasn't an ending or at least some visual to show the player the treasure, but oh well.

I also got a kick out of the Atari 2800-esque graphics!

Just allow some time for testing next time to fix that difficulty!

A lot to love about this game. I really got into it at the start, it was really satisfying to smash the rocks and push around the boulders with some nice accompanying sound effects and music.

It got really hard pretty quick at the black enemies, there was just so many of them swarming from all directions and I couldn't destroy the spawners because there were too many enemies in the way.

Nice visual effects like the shadowy outline that gets stronger later on and I like the upgrading pickaxe.

Cool game but the difficulty makes it impossible to beat.

The main problem being the spawners: Waiting a bit more before spawning more enemies would have been nice.. before the last boss (i assume is the last boss) your life gets drained because the black ghosts keep repoping over and over without letting you the time to damage the nest. They pile up pretty quickly. The only time I destroyed the nest before the boss, the boss just had to hit me once. And whenever I got to him (followed by black ghosts) he seemed even harder to bit than them. :/

This game is really really good! It's a little too difficult because of how the spawner work, and the boss have so much life, but apart from that I'm not sure what to add :D Maybe the viewport was a little too big for my taste.

Oh, the music was great too!

I liked this game alot. I liked the main mechanic,the artstyle and the way that you introduced new powerups, but I don't like how the enemies will keep on spawning when you see a spawner even if you're far away and how there seems to be no limit to them. I also think you could have given enemies being hit have more impact. I really did like how you introduced powerups. like how when you get the extra pickaxe strength, you can only move forward by destroying the black rocks. Had plenty of fun playing this and was engrossed by it. Still haven't beaten the final boss though.

Really nice game. It seems very polished and The pickaxe is used in some interesting ways. I especially enjoyed pushing the boulders to activate switches.

The presentation and atmosphere is also good. The pixel style look great and everything is readable. The sound effects are appropriate and the music is sets the mood well. The HUD elements are a bit bland though.

Unfortunately, I couldn't manage to beat (what I presume is) the final boss. It seems impossible to hit him without getting hit back.

Those caves were way more haunted than I expected. I couldn't get past that other dude, and those black guys were so fierce that plowing through them was becoming a grind. Does the shockwave work? I don't know how far I got in the grand scheme, but what I played was a ride. For a while, I kept playing through the same stretch, killing the same guys, wondering where the next checkpoint might be, but then I realized how clever you had been with the map, giving the player the ability to circumvent past areas altogether, and that it wasn't necessary to kill all the ghosts. Besides, ghosts can't die.

There were some odd collisions with wall areas that I could walk into, but besides that it all seemed very stable. And I had fun. Great job!

Joseph, nice job. I'm a sucker for top down and dungeon crawls, so probably a bit biased. I liked the concept and the gameplay. As you pointed out, it was really hard and I was happy to have the walkthrough video.

If anything I would have like to have Parum face the direction I was walking but turn when I clicked towards the plus sign. This didn't affect gameplay at all and is I'm sure a personal preference. Good job and keep up the programming :-)!

Wow, I love this game, the gameplay, the puzzles, the level design, the music, the sound. I'm really impressed you did all this by yourself in the short period of time.

I found difficult that the creatures don't stop spawning after being activated. If the player retreats to get some air, it's over, you got surrounded by them.