Valkyrie Ascension

Pitch

As a new Valkyrie, you need to earn your way into Valhalla by scaling Yggdrasil and embracing your role as a Valkyrie. Equipped with your magic spear, helped with the magic of the anchor runes, collect worthy souls to grow and reach your goal.

This is a test of your strength, perseverance, and, above all, your judgment of souls, can you pass it?

Gameplay

• Use your spear to hit Anchor Runes and activate their magic to pull you to them.
• You can collect souls by flying through them or hitting them with your spear
• You can store souls in the Soul Totems:
  • The Raven will hold them for you
  • Loki will help you by activating dormant anchor runes and moving platforms
  • Freya will grant you victory and access to the next level
• All souls aren't equal:
• Unworthy souls are heavy to carry and won't please Loki or Freya
• Worthy souls are lighter and will please the gods
• Champion and Hero souls are almost weightless and will be very pleasing to the gods
• Strong winds will prevent you from gliding to your destination, they may not affect you so much if you carry heavy souls.

Known issues

• There's no music or sound in the GMTK Game Jam build because of an unfortunate issue with Wwise breaking our builds (it's sad because the audio is great!)
• The Raven totem may duplicate the souls instead of just storing them. It may work if you retry.
• Level 4 and 5 use debug totems and cannot be completed. Flying through them and activating the Lokis can still be enjoyed though. 

A word from the team

This was one of our most ambitious projects for a game jam, especially because most of the team never worked on a platformer. We were also cursed by Wwise and lost precious hours trying to get it to work, to finally have to remove it totally to get a working build in time. Due to all the time we wasted on technical issue, we couldn't properly integrate our two biggest levels and even dropped a full, amazing, biome that was ready to be used.

But, under the hood, there is a concept we like, with a great narrative, and multiple game systems that could be used to create dozens of unique levels. And, most importantly, the team learned tons of stuff and enjoyed the experience, which, at the end, is what truly matters. 

Thanks for trying our game, we hope you'll enjoy what's there and see the potential behind it. 

Credit

• Art: Justin Corteel, Michele Marro
• Design & Prod: Hervé Gengler
• Level Design: Ectosum
• Programming: Maxime Piquot, KiruB, Rodounet
• Sound: Michael Boga, Arthur Waligorski
• Tech Design: Khevna Shah