Caléndula of Souls
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It is the Day of the Dead! Also known in Spanish: Día de los Muertos.
You stumble upon a temple with tortured souls. Upon further exploration, you find a room with a special flower - a marigold of souls.
Throwing the marigold frees the tortured souls within, however with a cost. The more you use the marigold, the more you feel like you are from the dead.
Escape the temple and free tortured souls, or be a part of the dead!
Gameplay is like Hades meets Journey of the Prairie King
Controls
WASD - Move
E - Interact
Mouse - Aim
Left Mouse Button / Hold down Left Click - Shoot
ESC - Pause
Credits
Programming - Armando (armandorusso)
Art - Armando (armandorusso)
Music (see assets below)
Made and submitted for Pixel Art Game Jam 2025
Assets used:
Fonts: Ænigma Fonts, link
General Sound Effects: Baŝto, link
Other Sound Effects: SubspaceAudio, link
Title theme: Volcano of Bears (Blake Speers) - Restitution, link
Intro Cutscene theme: SygilBatBoi - 8 Bit Title or Theme, link to song
Dungeon Theme: Heatley Bros - 8 Bit Evil! - link to song
Boss Theme: Trevor Lentz - Bullfrog Dungeon (Chiptune Loop) - link to song
Comments
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Nice game! When the wall started moving/rotating it was a very cool moment. I wish my character got strong a bit quicker but I had fun.
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed that mechanic :D
Great feedback. I should've maybe designed it with a mindset where people wouldn't be spending quite a bit of time playing (since this is a game jam)
Re reading your comment, do you mean one of the rooms was literally rotating? Because I just encountered this bug now
Yes, I thought it was intentional haha
Oh haha it actually wasn't but I am glad you enjoyed it nonetheless! Thinking about it now, it would've been a pretty cool unique twist if it works properly.
I hope you were able to at least progress to the next room