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Clark Padmore
Grief & Garbage

Grief & Garbage v1.0.0 Launch

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Clark Padmore
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An entry in GBJAM 12 / “Spooky”

Image Description: The gif thumbnail for the game "Grief & Garbage", an orange and red pixel art image. Below the title, a ghastly skeletal figure with large tusks clad in a garbage bag runs across an uncanny suburban hallway. It approaches a wall of cross sigils, before jumping and popping the skeleton from its garbage bag. The bag remains in the air, animated with eyes. The skeleton hits a lever on the wall, bouncing back and disabling the sigils and the floor. The creature, now recombined, falls to three multicolored ball candies. End Description.

Grief & Garbage, a 20-30 minute puzzle-platformer horror game about bouncing a skeleton, getting candy, and enjoying your last Halloween. Now available for browser and desktop at Itch.io, gd.games, and the Clark Padmore website.

Image Description: A gif recording of "Grief & Garbage". The avatar bounces his skeleton off of a lever, before sprinting down a hallway. He swiftly splits apart to avoid a dual wall, uses his ghost to defeat a swarm of spiders, and splits apart again to avoid spikes and candle-flames. Finally, he splits into a ghost to activate a electric switch on the ceiling as a jack-o'-lantern jumps, shoots at him, and falls into a pit of spikes. The spirit recombines. End Description.
Image Description: A gif recording of "Grief & Garbage". The spirit watches two children talk to an elderly dark-skinned woman on her porch. The first, a pale girl, is dressed as a fairy princess, complete with pointy hat, wings, and magic wand. The second, a dark-skinned girl, is dressed in a light robe and wields a plastic laserblade. "Are you a fairy princess?" asks the woman. "Since the day I was born!" the girl replies. "Say," the woman interjects, "do you have a spell to bring my husband back?" A moment of silence passes. "I don't think any spell can do that." "Hah!" the woman shouts, "I'm kidding! I never liked him that much anyway."
Image Description: A gif recording of "Grief & Garbage". As the spirit's zombie walks back and forth onto a button, the spirit's ghost weaves through appearing and disappearing walls inside of a tunnel. End Description.
Image Description: A gif recording of "Grief & Garbage". The spirit approaches the two children from before. "Aaah!!" the children shout in surprise. A moment of silence passes. "Oh, it's just a costume," the girl with the sword says. "...You're right!" says the princess, "It's just one of those black skeleton costumes!" "Is that a garbage bag?" asks the swordsgirl. "It is... and you smell like garbage!" the fairy says, directing the remark at the spirit. "Unfortunately, I must agree with my rude compatriot," says the swordsgirl, as if quoting a film. "Did you memorize the whole trilogy?" asks the princess. End Description.
Image Description: A gif recording of "Grief & Garbage". The spirit walks across a large room, only to encounter a huge caped figure with a bison's skull for a head. He stops. End Description.