Dark Forest
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
An evil spirit from the Dark Realm is invading the forest. You must find and pass through the Dark Realm gate to fight it. However, the keys to the gate have been scattered across the forest and across the departing realms. Departing realms are parallel dimensions, each a step towards death. Be careful!
This game was developed in about 10 days during the month of November 2017 for the GitHub Game Off jam. The big hook idea was the "demake" departing realms, each representing the game in lower fidelity, roughly approximating different bit platforms.
Music jammed out by Hryx. About 40 hours of development was streamed on Twitch and archived on YouTube.
Controls
Best played with a gamepad, but keyboard and mouse also works.
Tips
- Hold fire to pull back arrow without shooting.
- Hit 3 enemies in a row to get a bomb arrow shot.
- Turn up audio to hear approaching enemies.
Download
Development log
- Retrospective ChatDec 17, 2017
Comments
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That's a really cool concept and a great execution. I really enjoyed playing. Good job and thank you.
I really enjoy the concept of the game, it is interesting. I spent a good time trying to find all keys.
Sometimes it is a bit difficult to see assets when only one heart is left, you
have to be careful not to die. Sounds really help here to spot incomming
skulls !
Well tried of finding all keys?
So here is cheat to directly start at the Dark Realm
In ya file browser go into DarkForest_Data/
There are the following files:
swap level1 <-> level2 and you'll directly start in the Dark Realm
Another nice configuration is to just 'rotate' the whole thing:
So it'll look like this:
=> Like this you'll start in Dark Forest.
Just manage to die there and you'll fall into the Dark Realm. :^)
To go back into the Dark Forest press ESC and Quit to Menu
To turn of the background music in the Dark Realm just rename or delete the file sharedassets2.resource
In Dark Realm kill 3 skulls in a row to earn a fire arrow.
Now shoot that fire arrow at the gold weakpoint at the back of the mega skull.