You are meeting with someone on the top of a suspicious skyscraper. How suspicious? The elevator's currently broken and nobody seems to complain about it except maybe probably you. Surely it's not that hard climbing to the top right? Some wacky shenanigans await!

A short puzzle game for the 1-bit Game Jam. I might add a few more levels and mechanics if there is a demand for it, but this will suffice for now. Feedback is highly appreciated! (e.g. difficulty or lack thereof) Cheers!

Note: Just to be clear (minor spoiler), the game has 2 paths, up and down. You can technically clear the level when going up but that's boring, so if you want the real puzzle part of the game it's downstairs.

Controls:

WASD/Arrow Keys - movement

R - reset level

E - for some actions


Art assets are a mix of my own creations and from kenney.nl

BGM: Spark - Johan Vandegriff


Changelog:

v1.1

-Added a downloadable version for Linux

-Reworked level 5 to make the object placements more meaningful to the solution

-Reworked level 7 so it's slightly more forgiving and easier to solve

Updated 6 days ago
Published 10 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Authorampersandrei
GenrePuzzle
Made withGodot
Tags2D, Meme, Pixel Art, Retro, Short, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsKeyboard

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the-only-way-up-is-down_v1.1_win.zip 57 MB
the-only-way-up-is-down_v1.1_linux.zip 53 MB
the-only-way-up-is-down_v1.0_win.zip 57 MB

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This is really neat! Nice work! :D

Thanks thanks

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This is very cool, this style is amazing and different mechanics are cool too. But there is one little problem. Maybe I just didn't get this information but for example I was stuck on b5f and couldn't restart this or die for this. Do you have any menu for this? 

But still it's cool

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! I've tested B5F and it runs fine on my end. What do you mean by couldn't restart this or die for this?

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Look. I used these woving boxes (don't remember what is it, sorry) and just locked myself in the start of the lvl. I didn't found settings to restart it because I understood my mistake there (I didn't use translator for this reply, sorry if something wrote weird)

I've tried to show in on the screenshot. Maybe I just misunderstood which button could be usable for it T.T

No worries I can understand you just fine! Just press the R key to reset the current level  :)

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Thank you!