Diortem
Fight for survival in this metroidvania where you are an unkillable parasitic organism that can invade other life forms and use their abilities for your own gain.
Made for 1-BIT JAM #3 (Theme: Transformation)
PS: Sorry for the bugs! 🐞
CONTROLS
Arrow keys — movement
Z — jump
X — shoot
C — possess / leave host
R — reload the room
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Wow you blow me away every time! This is so cool!
Def pretty buggy, but the concept is cool and very fun.
I'd like to play a polished version on this as I don't know how many discs I got, if there's a disc tally, a map etc.
I had to reload out of the Deeproot room and there was some DNA I missed too...
Yeah, I think you're better off waiting for a more polished version. I will update this game after the jam ends, maybe in a week or so.
Thanks! All the best!
I can't tell if I'm making progress due to having to reload rooms. Do the disks reappear when you enter a room?!?
I found a secret disk and it said it was 11 out of 10.
I really wanted to give this a try but I found it too buggy and confusing to get very far. I really like the idea and the art though.
Yeah, the bugs are something I'm working on. I will update the game once the jam ends.
can you post downloadable versions?
Ran into a problem pretty early: possessed one of the wall-crawlers, who can change "down" when they slide towards a wall. But that "down" is still "down" when I leave that body (ie pressing "up" makes me fly west). "East" is still "down" when I possess a human body. My humans are now tilted to the right and fall right-wards... which gets me stuck.
I have the same problem as you did! Hopefully, it gets patched out. For now, you can try jumping off of the wall before you exit the wall-crawler's body.
really cool game, always wanted to play a game where you possess different life forms, this is spot on!
Wait, hang on, secret disk 11 out of 10? Shouldn't it read 1 out of 10 instead?
EDIT: Also found a bug in which self-destructing as the crab while sideways causes my controls to be messed up. Also, there's no screen that teaches me how to control the crab, and reloading a certain room makes me start over at the previous room instead.
Wow, very impressive looking game. I ran into a couple issues though. In the second room you need to possess a host to open the door, but the directions on how to do that are in the third room. I only figured out what to do by looking at the controls in the game's description. Also, I ran into a bug where after possessing the thing that walks on walls, leaving the host caused my gravity and controls to be messed up even after possessing another host. I also think I got softlocked in the area with the big enemy that looks like a box with legs. I have access to 4 rooms, but I can't progress in 2 of them without a wall climber host, and the room with the big enemy doesn't seem to do anything.
After resetting from that softlock, I'm now seeing that in the first room, I'm supposed to go through the vent in the top right, but you can actually go through the door for some reason which is why I was confused. Apparently by going through the door, I didn't trigger a bunch of stuff like the map, title screen, and instructions. Also, I think I wasn't able to kill enemies?
I got back to where I was before I was softlocked thinking maybe the big enemy will do something now that I've hit that trigger in the beginning, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I'm kind of lost on what to next.
Game looks super impressive, I'll be sure to try it again if I could get a hint of what to do next or if it turns out the softlock is unintended and it gets fixed.