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A fierce blizzard stretches over the sky. 

The wind howls through the piercing cold. 

The snow beneath your feet feels solid, but you know it will be impossible to navigate through.

Your goal is to simply get home and get warm. It would be a simple walk.

Or so, you thought.

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The Realm of the Dead is a short 2D pixel art platformer. You can use your arrows as platforms and for solving puzzles. Explore this mysterious world to escape, so you can get home.

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Controls

Fancy table thing for controls, if you didn't catch the tutorial text.

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Developer Comments

I have no idea what even is this project anymore. The dead? Bones? The purple spikes that cover the top and bottom of the world? But it's pretty special to me, either way at this point. Beware of performance issues, because the enemy AI for some reason in Corgi Engine eats up everything (or I'm doing it all wrong).

I tried using the Corgi Engine a lot with this project, and I was in a hell in for a ride. Some of this stuff is still really broken, but I guess I'll learn with time on how to fix this faster. The player bug when automatically walking forward was oddly excruciating to fix.

It ate most of my time and now I don't even have a game with the actual theme in mind. Whoops. At least I have an animated character that took a few days total, but looks cool! The atmosphere is really strong too, with my newer games.

I'm typing this at 4:30 am, I really need sleep... zzz...

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WARNING

I don't know seizures, but at the end of the game, there will be a cut-scene where it fades from white, to back to the game, to black, in about a 3 frame time-span. It definitely stung my eyes. I don't know if this is dangerous for epileptic people (probably is?), so be warned!

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If you give it a try, please leave a comment! 

I'd love to hear what you think about my game.

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