Side Soul

Hello everyone !

Happy to see you on Side Soul's page !

Side Soul is a 2D Side Scroller / Platformer / Die and retry type of game.

This game will require your best brain synchronization and focus because you will not be playing one character... but two ! In fact, you will be playing a Hero and his Soul. They need to be brought back together, otherwise the hero will definitely die. 

The game takes place in a purgatory type of place where a corrupted fog comes and destroy everything in its path. Run as fast as you can but mind the traps... ;)

Speed, agility and two handed synchronicity will be your main skills during this journey.

Feel free to give us some feedbacks and most importantly to rate the game for the GMTK GameJam ranking ! 

Known issues

- Not able to restart a level, we are very sorry but we have a problem with the restart button, please quit & relauch the level, when you die. It's fixed but we need to wait the end of the GameJAM for push the new version thank you <3 

If you want to give a try to the last fixed version now : https://loicdelaunay.fr/projets/sidesoul.zip

Gameplay & Screenshots

Core

You play two characters at the same time with this layout : 

As you can see, there is a blue line representing the bond between the Hero and his Soul. If you go too far the bond will break and you'll have to restart the level.

As for the controls well... It depends. How come you say ? Well let me introduce the:

Difficulty Scaling

The difficulty increases with two factors : 

• The Synchronization Mode.

There are 4 different synchronization mode. With each comes a different difficulty. 

1. Normal

In this Sync mode, you play with ZQSD your hero and arrow keys for the Soul.

It is represented in game by this icon :

 

2. PartialSync

As it is partial, you will have one key in common between the Hero and the Soul... You will quickly find which one ;)

Its representation:

 

3. Sync

Well, just like the previous one, but your whole controls are synced !

Its representation:

4. Chaotic

Chaos.

While those Synchronization modes do increase the difficulty, we thought it was not enough.

Level Difficulties

Each level has 3 different difficulties:

    Easy - Medium - Hard.

The number of traps will increase with the set difficulty. Fun !

Combination

The global difficulty will then be defined by : 

The current map (0 - 6) / The Sync Mode / The Level Difficulty

For example, the hardest level is the 6th map with the Chaotic Sync Mode and Hard difficulty.

This gives us a total of : 7 maps * 4 Sync modes * 3 Difficulties... 

84 REPLAYABLE LEVELS !

A whole ton of fun as far as one can see ! 

Of course, you will have to unlock each and every one of the levels.

Here is a small preview of the Level Selector : 

A whole world of challenges is waiting for you ! 

Get started right now by downloading Side Soul!