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  • Controls Use A and D to move left or right.  Use W to jump. When airborne, move into inked fish tanks to grip onto them. While gripping, press W to wall jump. Use the mouse to aim and click to shoot ink. (Careful, you have a limited amount of ink per level!) Shoot ink onto water tanks to solidify them so you can stand on them. If you don't, you will fall straight through!  Be quick, ink will slowl…

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    20% User Score Based on 1 reviews

    Summary:Ghostly Grimoire is a 2D side scrolling platformer created in Unity, in which the player utilises the ghosts of their own avatar, to help solve puzzles and open pathways to new areas.Ghostly Grimoire is designed to create an engaging gameplay experience, that mixes great platforming and solid puzzle solving. This is achieved by making use of traditional platformer based movement, interacti…

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    52% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    READ THIS FIRST: There's a known bug in Godot currently where a KinematicBody2D gets stuck when the corner of its rectangular collision shape collides precisely with the corner of another bodies. This sometimes makes the main character to get stuck in around the corner of the platform. The only workaround is to change the collision to Capsule or Circle shape but doing that will make the sliding mo…

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  • Waveforge is a 2D physics-based puzzle game where players manipulate water waves and emergent physical phenomena to guide a rubber duck to the goal. Set within a meticulously crafted pixel-art physics world reminiscent of Noita, it invites players to experience uniquely engaging physical interactions. Featuring over ten thoughtfully designed levels, the game delivers about 1 hour of delightfully c…

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  • Info You wake up in a futuristic research facility with no memory.Can you escape a sadistic AI running antimatter experiments? Controls (Keyboard + Mouse Look) WASD: Move Space: Jump Mouse Left-click: Shoot antimatter particle As a participant in the "Judica Me II" game jam from December 1 to December 3, 2023, I entered on the second day to create a game. It took me about 6 hours to complete the …

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  • ABSOLUTE is an escape game. Make use of any available tools to solve the puzzles and clear all the levels. Inspired by escape room games. Like a classic escape room game, but on a larger scale. Key Feature - Classic escape game, finding tools, and make use of them to clear the levels. - Full escape puzzle, no mini-game. - Unique puzzle on every level.

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  • Created for GMTK Jam 2024. The idea was to make an Metroidvania. Sadly, as is usually the case with overscoping, most of the content that makes the game a game couldn't get in. A good chunk of the development time actually went into making the basic mechanics and the level editor, so I made sure to include them in the web version as well (even if without the ability to save your creation). Usage …

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  • Description My second game for BUAS is very similar to my first game in BUAS. We were essentially asked to recreate our first block's project (Metal Gear), but in 3D using OpenGL. Where some students opted to try and recreate Metal Gear Solid, I instead tried to stay accurate to the original Metal Gear MSX game, and simply extend it into the third dimension. As such, the tile map and rooms are …

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  • A lonesome adventurer, awaken inside of an ancient labyrinthine-style dungeon. The only thing you remember is a monster that likely awaits you at its end. With nothing in your possession, you must navigate your way through enemy-filled rooms and corridors to find weapons and treasures to aid you in your escape. Luckily for you, some poor adventurers must have left their equipment behind in the che…

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  • Description Prototype for a metroidvania-style game developed using the Odin language (https://odin-lang.org). I'm using a 2D framework developed in the Odin language to create a game for GameDev.TV JAM 2025 (https://itch.io/jam/gamedevtv-jam-2025) and for the 2025 Annual Jam (https://itch.io/jam/2025-jam) This is a 2D platformer inspired by Metro-Vania. Story You are Alice, a young girl who …

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