samsara
saṃsāra is a totally not pretentious puzzle platformer game about life, death, and rebirth.
Spin a wheel to embody one of 4 creatures, all with unique abilities.
If you die, you spin again, and the cycle will never end until you reach Nirvana.
This game has a save feature. You can leave and come back later and your progress will be stored.
CONTROLS:
- Arrows Keys to Move
- Z to Jump / Select during the typing sequence
- X to perform an Action / Ability (context-specific)
- Hold R to reset your save at any time.
PSA: the wheel can be STOPPED by pressing Z while it is spinning. i wanted this to be a secret but i changed my mind.
CREDITS:
1bit Platformer Tile assets by Kenney
BoldPixels font by Yūmi (@YumiPixels)
MenuCard font by Sysl.
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I figured out I can stop the wheel naturally, in-game, and was pleased to figure it out on my own. I still have not beat this game yet but this is my favorite game in the jam (other than my own cause bias lol) and I will beat your game eventually, and I am grateful for the save feature.
Great game. Took me a while to figure out how to use the piano!
...it's taking me even longer. How do you use the piano?
a lot of people are struggling with this, i may have to update the description with a hint since i won't have time to change anything in the game before the lock happens. in essence though, pressing X will play a note if there is a note key pressed. you will know you did it right if a piano note plays.
EDIT: nvm i just pushed an update that hopefully clears up some confusion :)
Oh. Yes. Using "X" was not on my radar for that. Well, thank you--I'd finished the game otherwise, so with this I just had to go play several series of notes and I was all set. Glad to have officially finished it, because it was in fact fun overall. :-)
<3
I freaking love this
I like the idea & the vibe - very Animal Well-ish. I didn't get what to do with the "commands"?
"humanity always has a tool at their disposal"
I can't enter my name, nothing happens
oh no, i've not encountered this bug before. just to make sure, are you controlling the keyboard with arrow keys and Z inputs? if so, what is happening specifically?
The arrows give an input, and I'm on the letter G and then press Z (or W on azerty) it works, Enter appears and I can go select that to move forward.
ahh so it may be an azerty issue. i'll look into that.
Maybe, I don't know, that was weird, only the letter G could be typed.
I just reloaded the page and now it works. Maybe it was just a one-time thing, or I mispressed sth, not sure.
After resetting my save (by holding R), I could enter my name.