Rattle & Raise

RATTLE & RAISE

Raise the dead. Command the bones. Keep the Soul Stone standing until dawn.

You are the Bone King of a floating graveyard isle. For seven nights the living row over with hammers and pickaxes to smash your Soul Stone. Your army is whatever you can dig up: skeletons from the graves, and the invaders themselves once they fall.

HOW IT WORKS

- Hold SPACE at a glowing grave to raise a Skeleton. It costs 2 souls.

- Knocked-down invaders drop souls and leave a body. Raise the body before it fades and it fights for you: Vikings become Bone Vikings, Miners become Bone Miners, and the bosses become a Bone Jarl and a Bone Golem.

- Your own skeletons fall apart into bone piles. Re-raise a pile for half price.

- Command your dead: they FOLLOW you. E plants a banner and they HOLD that spot. Q calls them back (tap twice for everyone). Split your army to guard both sides of the stone.

- Grave Robbers sneak in to dig up your graves. Stop them, or raise the grave first.

- Seven nights, two bosses, up to ten dead at once.

CONTROLS

A/D or arrows: move · W: jump · J/X: hammer · hold SPACE: raise · E: hold here · Q: call (twice: all) · P: pause · M: mute

Gamepad: stick, A jump, X hammer, B/RT raise, LB call, RB hold

Spooky but all ages: cartoon skeletons, a moonlit graveyard and a danse-macabre soundtrack. No blood or gore.

Made for Spooky 2D Jam '26 (theme: Necromancy). #Spooky2DJam

CREDITS

Made by Clovrr Studios

Art: isles_ [8x8] by analogstudios / Kevin's Mom's House (https://analogstudios.itch.io/isles), CC0

Fonts: Creepster (Sideshow) and VT323 (Peter Hull), Google Fonts, OFL

Code, text, music and sound: written with Claude (AI), as declared above