Canary
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Made for GBJam 12
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Escape the Depths
In 1911, coal miners began using sacrificial canaries to detect deadly gases. The birds, more sensitive to toxins, would show distress or die, warning miners to evacuate before gas levels became lethal. Though this practice has now ended, the spirits of canaries from abandoned coal mines still seek their final rest.
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Objective
Dodge and avoid the toxic gases and mysterious eyeballs to obtain a total of 5 feathers from other fallen canaries and escape the mines. Good luck!
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Controls
W A S D or Arrow Keys - move and look
K or Z - jump
J or X - claim grave
O - change palette for fun!
P - pause and stats
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Post your best times when you reach the goal!
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Tools used:
- Game Engine: Godot 4.3
- Art: Pixaki
- Music and SFX: Bosca Ceoil - The Blue Album and JFXR
- Palette Overlay Shader by datagoblin (https://datagoblin.itch.io/)
Stuck? Video playthrough:
Comments
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9:29.37 100%
Really good game with very nice art, animations, and effects. The controls felt tight. The palette overlay shader looks awesome. Is it possible to put that on https://godotshaders.com/ or Github so others can use it? (specifically me). I seriously want to look at how it was made and mess around with it
17:17:39
Great game! Beautiful art and music!
Gorgeous pixel art and snappy platforming
Thank you!!
nice game but it makes my laptop overheat and after a while it goes all slow and "blocky" so needs optimizing
Maybe I'll add an option to disable particle effects, that may help. Thanks!
horrible controls ... please add the classic ones !
Thanks for your feedback! I just updated it to have alternate controls using arrow keys. Is that what you were looking for?
yes , thank you !
19:16! Not a great score for sure, mostly due to that one dreadful section requiring really precise jumps. I still like the game though, and it's quite impressive how the game only uses four colors
That's a great time! Thanks for playing :)