Hermit Castle
Play as a hermit crab as you explore the remains of a forgotten underwater palace. Equip different shells to overcome various trials and avoid dangerous creatures. Find the ghost of each of the forgotten souls to break the castle of its curse and set its forgotten souls free.
Made for the PIGSquad 2021 "Exploration" Summer Slow Jam with the theme of "Forgotten Places."
Credits
Coding: Merlin Benneth
Artwork: Emma Price
Music: Jeff "Surreal" Cline
Controls:
Arrow Keys - Move
Z - Jump
X - Perform shell action
Note: Gamepad support is included, but has not been tested. In-game prompts will also not reflect gamepad controls.
Esc - Pause/View map (Q/R while paused quits/restarts game)
F - Switch to fullscreen
1-6 keys - Change game screen size
F10 - Reduce ghost count by 1 (Cheat code; Included for debug purposes)
Download
Install instructions
- Download .zip
- Extract files
- Run .exe
Development log
- HTML5 build is now availableJul 12, 2021
Comments
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good job. Felt quite polished and has a nice art style.
Thanks for checking it out!
Bug I found: if you don't have the helmet equipped and you enter the battle ghost area after beating him, he is spawned again! If you enter it with the helmet again he's gone.
Anyway, this was a really cute and fun game! Loved the graphics and the writing, the music was very calming and it felt great to play gameplay wise, the three shell mechanics were satisfying :)
really nice game! :-)
Thank you for playing!