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Your soul squished into an abhorrent amalgamation,

tasked to forever wander these vacant facilities.

 - Can you find the exit? -

 


Features:
  • 20 or so rooms to climb
  • Tentacles
  • Eating

Extra info:
I wanted to make a little White Knuckle fangame that explores a more minimal set of controls, though I think it kinda developed into it's own thing by the end. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the end product, it was a lot of fun to make.



Qol: 

M button toggles music on and off. download version lets you fullscreen with enter and restart with f5.

Credits:
  • Player sprite is modified version of a sprite made by  Vegard Jensen

( project was made in 38 hours of work, according to the gamemaker project log  )

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
AuthorEmlise( formerly faxdoc )
GenreAction
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
Purple_tentacle_source_code.rar 25 MB
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Purple_tentacle_local.zip 14 MB

Development log

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The controls on keyboard don't actually suck, they're just hard to domain but over time they get easy to use, I was able to reach 3000m on my fourth run with the keyboard and it was a ton of fun.
 
Just stick with the keyboard controls longer than 1 minute guys, it's like learning to type without looking at the keys.

On god this game is perfect I want mooooooooooore this feeling of getting in connexion with the controller and the tentacles is an absolute banger

Why arent the controls on keyboard just left mouse to control left tenticle and right for right tenticle???

because you woudlnt have seperate controll over them that way 

A difficult game about climbing:
"Say what now?"

i ment as in full independent controll of eachother like you can go left with one hand and up with the other adgac only allows for going the same direction or oposites

can confirm that it is terrible on keyboard. next to no control of half of my tentacles. none of the controllers i have work on my laptop.

that's a lovely movement you have here. i love it! i haven't gotten a change to try the game with a controller but i will as soon as i can. (the WASD tentacle feels kinda weird to control, but i can imagine it will be very fun with two joysticks). Great game keep it up!!!

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i really can't believe there is even more levels after the yellow one... hahahah

good game! maybe a toggle between bumpers and triggers would be nice though, bumpers make my fingers uncomfortable ):

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Great game! I would love to see a control option that lets you control both tentacles with the mouse, using left and right click for each

Could be good, I actually tried that when making the keyboard+mouse controls and found it really didn't work, but might be worth a shot.

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I love this so much! It's such pure design and charm. You inspired me a lot by making this, thank you.

Thigs have learned to walk that ought to crawl (and they are so darn cute)

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This game is awesome and you should definitelly continue working on it

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I made an account just to save the game and write this comment.

I saw the game in a ProFuZ video, and since White Knuckle is my favorite game, I decided to try this one myself.

So far I haven't gotten past the orange area with the saws, but practically everything about this game is a 10/10!

I love the mechanics, the visuals, the music... everything! A highly recommended game!


headpats... ^^

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this game is very awesome i like the lil character i somehow managed to get to the orange part but a bit after that i died to touching a buzzsaw and then falling towards another buzzsaw but thats ok i like htis game

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The animations are fantastic! Everything feels so juicy, and there’s adorable details everywhere. Procedural animations always create so cool and expressive results.

My brain isn’t yet correctly aligned for these controls though. Somehow I kinda manage verticals movements, but lateral ones are very laborious, and balancing diagonally just won’t go. x) It’s like inverted controls (despite the movements making perfect sense). I was able to jump and swing around though that was very satisfying! But as soon as there is a sense of emergency and few spots to grab, it’s like my fingers don’t obey me anymore.^^’

Both the characters and the playable character are incredibly unique!
The movement system using two octopus like tentacles controlled by the gamepad felt very strange, yet intuitive at the same time.
I played before the update, but when I saw that they later added a feature where you get gently patted after failing, I felt how deeply loved this character is.
Instead of lowering the difficulty to deal with the challenging controls, choosing an approach that helps players overcome it by making them feel affection for the character is something I absolutely love!!!!
In short, it was extremely fun, meow! (ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ)

Came for headpats, stayed for headpats.

oh man am i bad at climbing

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i hate this and i hate myself for playing

10/10 would recommend

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Holy peak

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its so good i wish there was more

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This game is so good! I love the art style, and the mechanics with the mouse and keyboard are tricky at first but I've gotten the hang of it! After dying to the rising tentacles multiple times I've ended up quite enraged cause I had to start all the way back at the beginning but nevertheless it's still very fun! Nice job :)

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I'm going to murder someone now, I just got restarted after making it so far into the yellow level.

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Thoughts on adding checkpoints?

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I'd rather just make the game a little easier.

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don't, checkpoints are better, the game essence is it's hard, unless you want a larger audience then yes make it easier

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The music for endless mode is a banger

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EMILISE you're on a ROLL with these games!

Tentacle sometimes doesn't detach for some reason so I panic and frantically click which ends in disaster often 

I think if you're playing with mouse and then move the mouse away from the game it kinda loses focus on the mouse and doesn't notice you've released left click. I think as a solution you can either play the download version or use gamepad.

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This game is awful. I love it! 

(deleted this accidentally wah wah wah)

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That's what I was going for, thanks ^^

Suggestion what if right click for mouse/right tentacle, left click for the wasd one/left tentacle. I guess a changeable control scheme can also be a thing, but I dunno how much work will that be already.

actually absolutely agree the wasd tentacle is kinda unusable so i just use it as an anchor 

Might be a bit much, but I'll consider it.

I also forgot to say, I meant the grabbing at least.