Thank you so much! I only intermittently receive feedback on Deep Freeze since it's basically designed for a niche of a niche, but it always makes me happy to hear how much people were able to enjoy it. It's a strange, very long, and extremely tough level, and I put years of effort into it, so it's nice to see that pay off, even if only in small amounts. The soundtrack never actually got a proper release, but you're the second person in recent memory to ask for one. I think maybe I'll get to that right about now.

As I recall, the red artifacts activate a secret that restarts the whole game at the beginning, with a couple small but very significant differences. If it's as I remember it, I'm not necessarily sure that the game is worth replaying that way, but there nevertheless *is* something to be seen if you collect those artifacts!

Looking back on it, I learned a ton of very important lessons when developing Deep Freeze that have gone on to inform my developing methodology of how to pace a game appropriately. Since Deep Freeze finished development, I've worked on four tiny-sized additional games with a fifth, medium-scale project currently in development. If you're curious to learn about all those, I post semi-regular updates on my current project on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Ultigonio), with downloads for my other games available here: https://ultigonio.itch.io/. Thank you again for playing Deep Freeze!

I made another game!


You can download it here!

Unearth is a puzzly kind of platforming game where you dig down and pick up gold. It's got a very simple story and three difficulty modes that transform the game from an easygoing platformer to a hardcore puzzlegame more along the lines of what you'd expect from the sadist who made Deep Freeze. It was made in two weeks for a game jam and I'm quite proud of it, so I hope you guys give it a go!

Hi!  I am well aware that it will be suffering a fairly large point penalty, but I'll be submitted Deep Freeze.

Incredible level!!! I didn't feel any bumps in difficulty, everything felt very polished. The only gripe I had sometimes is that I had to turn off the music to hear the teleports ticking and was forgetting to turn it back on. Speaking of which, the music is also great!

Spoiler: Bugs (click to show/hide)

Save spot needed at x997y992 (especially after you return from the teleporter).
x997y998 - if you climb (or teleport) up on the left side of the screen, you get into a wall-swim and various voids.
Bugs after you activate the secret that makes you invisible:
1) Void if you climb right wall of x989y1004.
2) You get stuck if you go back to that room that made you invisible and use the teleporter back into the level, because you don't have a single artifact or key. The toast way is blocked with a block, because flag 0 is also reset when this 'restart' happens.
3) I don't like the idea of recollecting everything. Why not only make the player invisible? By that time I already had all red artifacts.

BTW, maybe cyan artifacts could be traded for 1 red artifact to give them purpose?

I'm glad you enjoyed it!  Part of me wants to turn the music down, but then it ends up being too quiet for general listening.  It's a shame there's not a way to duck the music while the ticks play.

Re:save point: Fair.  I'll add one there.
Re: x997y998: Wow, that's a nice find!  Unfortunately, I have absolutely no clue on how to fix it.  Any ideas?


Trading in the cyan artifacts wouldn't be a bad idea.  At this point, it's a bit of a struggle for me to even open up Deep Freeze, so I'm not sure I'll bother, but it's good food for thought.  

Great to hear you're so motivated!  I recently took to working on a separate project and I definitely found forcing myself to a daily schedule to be strongly productive, so it's great to hear you've been able to make time for such a plan.

For what it's worth, I didn't enjoy FiNCK very much when I first played it, but I enjoyed it a lot when I came back to it a few years later.  Uurnog's structure and focus between puzzles and platforming is a lot different than FiNCK's, too (with Uurnog's areas feeling a bit more explore-y), and that might make the difference for you.

I'm a little bit miffed about the method of distribution since I'd sworn off Humble Monthly until I could cull my backlog (and I'd rather just give Nifflas all the money than have it divvied up amongst Nifflas and devs whose games I don't care about), but I can understand Nifflas wanting to have a game release to a wider audience.

I think if 2 people subscribe via this link, I'll be able to get it for 79 cents, so feel free to do that if you don't outright dislike me! I believe it doesn't affect the amount given to the game developers, either!

Cheers!