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A jam submission

Curse of the Spookz: Hidden Island ( 3d action adventure )View game page

PG Spooky Pirate Island Adventure!
Submitted by IrishJohnGames (@IrishJohnGames), MelsGames — 6 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Submitted(+1)

Favorite game in the jam, it's fun, it's pretty and I love the gameplay. I agree with Hertzrat, you should definitely polish and publish it.

Developer

Thank you so much San_io!!

So glad you enjoyed it. And as for publishing something, watch this space!

- Mels & John

Submitted(+2)

I had fun with this one.
The water jumping section was rather difficult.

But overall the aesthetics, sound and gameplay was good.
The ghosts gave a proper sense of dread.

Developer(+1)

Fantastic! Super glad you liked it! 

Getting alot of feedback about the water jumping! Will revisit that in future!

Thanks,
- Mels & John

Submitted(+2)

Speaking for myself, favourite game in the jam, but it would be 10x better at a steady 60 fps. Super fun, you should polish it up and sell it for $5-$15 next halloween (depending on how much polish).

Developer(+1)

Wow! Such high praise! We can't even deal! :D
Thanks so much :) We were having so much fun with it that we couldn't help but think about expanding on it.. sooooooo maybe it'll be worth somethin by next halloween! Hahah

Thanks again! Made our day <3
-John & Mels

Submitted(+2)

This one was fun! I liked it, took me 2 tries to find the treasure. Almost didn't make it the second time because the water parkour section is very difficult :) The first time I played I didn't even realize I could grab the torches. My daughter (4 yr old) was watching me play, and the Spookz really spooked her :) so well done!

Developer(+1)

Great! Yea, we died alot testing the water parkour section! Tweaked it over and over until we thought.. right.. thats'..... good enough! :D i.e. its possible now, so leave it alone! :D :D

Thanks for the great feedback + glad you and your little one enjoyed it! <3

- Mels & John

(+2)

Really like it tbh. My first time round I didn't really get that the spooks were draining my torch. I thought it would ward them off (should have focussed more when I read the help :P). I found the treasure second time round though. Nice.

My only real criticisms are that I got snagged on the scenery quite often (made a bit worse by the stamina system meaning I couldn't just a lot of the time), and a few times I'd trigger the water penalty when I felt I should have been a good distance from the waters edge (a pirate that can't swim? :D)

Overall, I thought it was pretty well made

Developer (1 edit) (+3)

Great stuff, thank you for the feedback and super happy you enjoyed it! 

The snagging was something we need to spend some time on for sure, the movement controller I was using was letting me run up anything <90 degrees! So we tweaked that and it made it a little janky!

The stamina has been re-balanced 4 times since we finished up the initial submission :D Its an area that needs more work for sure.

The water system was a bit of a rushed job so I do apologize for any frustration with that! Another victim of the bad character movement system changes I made! 

Thanks again for the awesome feedback. We're chuffed to have such high praise from the creator of the amazing Neo FPS!!!! <3

- Mels & John

(+2)

This was fun and nicely done. Good balance of spooks vs rum.

Would be fun if the rum had a drunk effect, maybe making the ghosts look less scary / more hazy.

Loved the skeleton in the wall in the mine.

I tried for a good 30 mins to find the treasure - really good for a game jam output. I even kept it on my disk and might try again.

Developer(+1)

Fantastic, thanks for the feedback! Sorry you didn't get the gold, hopefully you'll find it next time ;) If you want some tips or anything like that just ask but tbh, finding it is half the fun :D

<3 Thanks again!
-John&Mels

(+2)

I found it - gotta take that as really positive feedback. I took three attempts, I’m not sure I’ve ever done that in a game jam game before.

Developer(+1)

Haha! Fantastic! Fair play. Persistence is key! Glad you enjoyed it enough to give it a few extra attempts!