No Escape from EvilJam 

A 2D endless runner where you have to run from EvilJam, collect beers and avoid IPAs, marmalade jams and jump over barrels and crates. Cheers! ๐Ÿป

Made for the #BeerNotJam game jam! 

Controls: 

- Jump: [Space] or [left mouse button]  or [touch] 

- Pause: [Escape]


Patch Notes:

1.2.1:

- raised spawning rate of items & platforms when reaching a higher stage

- raised required beers for reaching stage 3 from 150 to 200

1.2:

- Added a pause menu

- player's position now stays the same when a new stage has been reached

1.15:

- Score will be displayed correctly when reaching the next stage

- Current stage will be displayed for 2 seconds when a new stage has been reached

- Added beer drinking animation 

- Added Quit button in the title menu

- Items don't spawn on the bushes anymore in stage 3

- Added Linux version

1.1:

- let player disappear as soon as EvilJam got them

- Added 2 additional stages with increasing speed and points


Story

In the dark middle ages Dr. James was experimenting with marmalade jam and high pressure - and blew up himself and his laboratory.  He somehow survived the explosion but it had turned him into a gigantic marmalade jam, devouring everything that got in his way! He had become EvilJam! 

At the same Ethelston Ainsworth was trying out a new recipe for a beer which included herbs and the tears of a virgin (his own) - when the explosion shook his little brewery and a bucket full of his urine fell unseen into the unbrewed beer. 

When the beer was done he took a deep sip - and had to vomit instantly, shouting: "IT'S PISS ACTUALLY!". But the beer was ready to be bottled and the people were thirsty, so he marked all bottles with the letters IPA and shipped it. 

Just when he had delivered the last bottle he saw something that looked like a gigantic marmalade jam on the horizon coming fast towards him...

He decided to run for his life! Hopefully he doesn't run into any IPAs! 


Assets used:

Castle Dungeon โ€“ Fantasy pixelart tileset  by AAMATNIEKSS 

Pixel Font pack by mattWalkden

Food and Kitchenware pixelart icons

Pixelart game backgrounds by MGG

Fantasy Medieval Environment by Ansimuz

8-bit tunes by Cactus Bear

8-bit sfx pack by Cactus Bear

Download

Download
No Escape from EvilJam Windows 1.2.1 (after-jam patch) 48 MB
Download
No Escape from EvilJam Linux 1.2.1 (after-jam patch) 60 MB

Install instructions

Unzip both files into any directory and run the EvilJam.exe. 

That's it! ๐Ÿ˜‰


For Linux users: add "chmod +x EvilJam.exe.x86_64" to the instructions for the executable.

Comments

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I played the game.  The beers tripped me up with the -1/+1 thing, but I got it.


It's fun I like the monster + music

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thank you for playing ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿบ

Yeah, avoiding the IPAs can be a little tricky. Glad you liked it ๐Ÿ™‚