Arcane Destiny
Game Credit:
Nate Sassoon - Music & Sound Effects
Keyboard Controls:
Right - Move Right
Left - Move Left
Space - Confirm / Jump / Swim
Down & Space - Ledge Drop
Q - Return / Interact (Has no current function)
F - Cast Spell
D - Teleport
Y - Restart Player (Report Bugs)
Known Bugs & Solutions:
The voting process has started. Therefore, we are unable to provide updates until this period concludes. Please see the list of known bugs and solutions found below.
1. Player character is stuck inside of a wall after entering a new level.
Solution: Press the Y keyboard key to restart the player character.
2. Item pick up dialogue is disallowing input.
Solution: Refresh the browser and start the game again. Your game progress will be saved with each item or check point you reach.
3. Water and swimming physics did not trigger. The player character is able to walk around in water instead of initiating the swimming mechanic.
Solution: Press the Y keyboard key to restart the player character.
4. Player Character is stuck moving in one direction.
Solution: Press the Y keyboard key to restart the player character.
Please comment with any bugs you have experienced. We will squash them as soon as the jam voting period ends.
Extras:
There is currently one easter egg hidden in the world. Comment if you found the egg, but please don't spoil the location!
We appreciate any comments or criticism on this 1 week demo and would love to continue development on this project.
Entry for Platformer Jam #1 by SpookyMan
Comments
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upon attaining the teleport scroll, I continuously moved left until I pressed Y
Hello Chloe. First and foremost, we appreciate you trying out the game!
This game was developed for a game jam and is in Alpha currently. We can not post updates due to the ongoing voting period.
I am glad that you were able to restart your player effectively and apologize that your experience was interrupted with this bug. Retrieving the teleport scroll is the end of this demo anyway. We only had 7 days to work on this game.
In my current local build, I have fixed this issue and will deploy an update with more content as soon as we are eligible to do so.
We hope that you add Arcane Destiny to your itch collection for future build tests. We could really use communicative members of the community (like yourself) for testing future versions of the game.
freezes up after finding the 1st egg ?
Hello Bigjus. Thank you for trying out the game!
This is a known bug in reference to the item pick up dialogue that we can not fix during the voting period of the game jam.
Rest assured your game progress has been saved. Try refreshing your browser and starting again.
Nice game. I found one easter egg.
I have a few questions:
1. How do I get the scroll?
2. How can I survive under water?
Hello Divine Gaming. Thank you for trying our game out.
Follow the gem stone collectibles at the current end of the forest area and that will solve all your problems with progression.
Thanks! I did that, but the first time I didn't notice the platform (see screenshot).
Yeah! There is a platform there you can utilize. Thanks for the feedback. I will make those stick out and be more noticeable with future builds.
There is a bug that I don't know the exact conditions to, but running into a wall and spamming jump and attack seem to get your character locked into running forward and becomes unable to walk the other direction
Hello Braunstantine. We appreciate you trying out the game and I do apologize that you ran into a bug during gameplay.
I did not know about this particular bug, but I do know exactly how to fix this for future play throughs. As soon as I am able to update the game, (after the voting period) I will fix this.
Please note that you can currently respawn by pressing Y if you run into soft locks such as what you described here.
I found the egg, but later fell into the ground and softlocked when returning to the screen it's located on. I also found the scroll, though it didn't seem to do too much. Q does not seem to return to start (which is also off the screen to the left of the start screen), that said the art is nice and the controls are fine. It was a fine minute and a half of gameplay.
Hello xyncht. Thank you for playing. I also do appreciate you pointing out bugs. I will work diligently to fix those items in due time.
The scrolls do serve a purpose. Unfortunately, they did not have a proper function at the time of your play through. I have since added functionality for the scrolls. There are currently two in the game at the time of this post. I will also be adding dialogue to provide details to what the items are.
The Q keyboard action does not have any function in the game right now. However, once I had the pause menu and other features, the button will have it's place.
Did you happen to locate the water cavern? You can enter from here by pressing Down + Space to ledge drop.
Yes, the water cavern is where I found the scroll. I entered it from the room right of the easter egg, which resulted in the lack of swim physics.
However this seems to have been fixed, which is nice but now the swim bar depletes too quickly for me to make it to the bottom again. Hopefully there is an upgrade somewhere for that.
Oh really? Thanks for pointing out the lack of swim physics there. I will see what I can do to make sure that does not happen in the future.
There is an upgrade to allow you to breathe infinitely under water. The scroll you found in the water was the teleport ability. I will be adding dialogue in the next update to let the player know details of the item they collect.
I got water breathing, but teleport doesn't seem to do anything even after collecting the scroll
Just submitted an update with a bunch of fixes. Let me know if you have any issues.