A downloadable game

Avava is a puzzle game for the playdate. 



As a traveller you find yourself in a shrine. It is on to please the gods by providing them a full set of runes – for eternity. The gods are impatient though. Should you not be quick enough providing them the sets they may send you to afterlife.



How to play:

  • Four different runes are assigned to the d-pad of the playdate. In front of you you find a collection 8 runes. One of the original four is missing. 
  • Select this rune on the d-pad and you are rewarded with points. Be careful. Every wrong selection will deduct points. 
  • You are playing against time so hurry up.
  • You can create a streak that will give you time back for each five full sets in a row – they even will provide you extra points. The game is over if the patience of the gods is not with you anymore... as in time is up.
  • You may restart always as the gods forget about you quickly.


Disclaimer:

Don't play on maximum volume. The sounds are a bit broken.

This game was done as part of a play jam.

This is my first time coding something like this. I used only pulp by panic for this and got quite far in the last two days.

I recently found a bug where sometimes two runes seem to be missing yet that seems to happen rarely.

Please don't pay for this game but donate to a good cause if you were actually considering putting money into this. It is a fun experiment and actually a quite addicting game for what it is, but maybe in the future I make it a real game.

Please give it a try and let me know if you enjoyed the game mechanics! :)

StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Authorrantdom
GenrePuzzle
Tagsmind-bending, My First Game Jam, Playdate, pulp

Download

Download
Avava for playdate 49 kB

Install instructions

Refer to panic and the playdate website.

Comments

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Had a lot of fun chasing that high score but it's lack of true ending was a slight bummer. Unless I just didn't get a good enough score but I really went HAM at it... or at least I felt like I did? Either way, great job!

★★★★★ This game is fantastic! Especially so, considering it was done with pulp; the first “non-RPG” pulp game i’ve played. I love puzzle games you grasp immediately, but keep coming back to.

(Tiny note: there is a mis-spelled “foucs” in the initial instructions.)