Wowie Jam 3.0  { "topic": "FAILURE IS PROGRESS" }: 
{
          Run, Jump, Fall in lava, Die, Repeat
          Run, Jump, Jump on Dead body, Fall in lava, Die, Repeat
          Run, Jump, Jump on Dead body, Jump on Dead body, Reach goal, Complete

}

The only way to progress is through failing first. Fail spectacularly, try again and progress towards the goal.

Development Gifs:
Mechanics concept 01

Thanks for playing
My idea for the topic was to take the death sequence from super mario and make it the core game mechanic.
No more rage quitting when falling off the edge down into the abyss

I implemented the movement a bit sloppy and had a bug where the player could jump repeatedly if it collided with any collider marked as ground, which ended up as a special wall climb feature :)

This game uses these sounds from freesound:
Background music: "Alone" by Migfus20 ( https://freesound.org/people/Migfus20/sounds/559856/ ) licensed under CC BY 3.0
The licence:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

Download

Download
FallForwardWin32.zip 20 MB

Install instructions

  • Option 1: I recommend that you download and install the game using the itch.io.app. (It prevents issues with windows giving you problems running the executable due to the .exe not being signed with a certificate)
  • Option 2: Download and extract the .zip and start the .exe.
    (If it shows the scary Unknown Publisher thing then you can choose run anyways if yo want. It's the Unity Win32 build that I've uploaded in a .zip folder.)

Development log