

How to Play
Use the directional keys to move the “Lady Bug” 🐞 and eat all the white seeds (dots) on the course.
Don’t let the 🐞 be eaten by the predatory “Enemy Bugs” 🪲 that chase the 🐞 around the screen. Use the turnstiles to allow the 🐞 to dodge the 🪲.
The 🪲 cannot turn the turnstiles. If the 🪲 hits a 💀, it disappears and is sent back to the bug box in the center of the coarse.
When the 🐞 hits the skull 💀 or is eaten up by a 🪲 , it disappears.
When players lose all the 🐞, the game is over.

Scoring
The scores awarded when various things are eaten up by the players’ 🐞 are as follows :
Seeds
10 points
Feature
🔵 100 points when blue
🟡 300 points when yellow
🔴 800 points when red
Vegetable
🥕 1000 - 9500 points
🥒1000 … 🍆1500 … 🥕2000 … ?

Features
SPECIAL
When all S-P-E-C-I-A-L letters (red) have been eaten up, players are awarded a Vegetable Harvest bonus stage.
EXTRA
When all E-X-T-R-A letters (yellow) have been eaten up, another 🐞 is awarded.
BONUS
Each time the blue 💙 is eaten on a level, the point values multiplies by X2, X3, X5. The bonus resets at the beginning of each level.
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Good eeeevening!
Delve deep into the Carpathian Count's castle and destroy its evil once and for all! But beware! Bats, zombies, witches, skeletons and more plague his castle's many chambers. Clear out these ghouls and douse all the torches to advance. Then it's time say lights out to the Undead Count himself!
Hi all. I'm a graphic designer in my 50s and this is my first complete game (be gentle, heh). I was inspired by the LazyDevs Shmup tutorial and wanted to make something that felt a little arcade-y but which was a platformer as well. Most of the code came from following the Shmup tutorial code and solutions, coupled with some tips on creating a platformer from Nerdy Teachers. Honestly, I don't know how to categorize this game. Clearly it draws inspiration from Castlevania, but is a single screen wave/level/chamber at a time rather than side-scrolling.
I had a lot of fun creating this. The palette changes required a LOT of planning but it all worked out, and creating the sprites for it all was very satisfying. There are countless things I probably can do better on, code-wise, but I'm happy just to have completed it under the token limit, heh.
Have fun playing and see if you can defeat the Count!

Version 1.6
Fixed Issues:
- Collision improved (but some diagonal movement sacrificed)
- Added a pause at the start of a level and negated prior movement
- Corrected a boundary break issue at the top of screen
- Dagger throw animation improvements
- No floating skeletons (minor enemy placement/movement fixes)
- Map soft lock pit area fixed
- 9-minutes-in total-game-lock problem fixed
- Added a very brief wait timer so enemies don't fire immediately upon waking at the start of a chamber
- The Count health boosted and phase three slightly nerfed.
- Improved title screen, exteriors, logo, label - thanks to Heracleum's one_off_gfx tool.