Arthur and the Staff of Arbitrary Arrangement - LD32 Compo - Second LD entry
Venture far into the depths of the unknown, this is your destiny. You have but one companion, the Staff of Arbitrary Arrangement; to everything else, you are but a rat in the basement.
Use the staff to translocate with any physical object. To complete your quest, this ability must be used with both finesse and caution. Falling off a ledge will kill you. Getting attacked by a zombie will kill you. Getting attacked by a fast zombie will kill you faster. Getting shot by a skeleton archer will kill you. Accidentally translocating into that one zombie you just tricked into running off the edge... will kill you. Good luck.
Press onward Arthur... Do not go gentle into that good night.
Controls: WASD - Move. Mouse - Aim. Mouse 1 - Fire translocation bolt - if it makes contact with any object, you and that object will swap places.
Objective: Discover just how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Toolset: Game Logic: Libgdx/Eclipse Image Assets: Photoshop Sound/Music: There's no sound. Spooky dungeons are silent. Obviously. Have you ever been in a spooky dungeon before? With fast zombies... you don't hear them coming.
Total dev time: 30 hours This was my second LD compo, and I had just as much fun as the first time! Looking forward to seeing everyone's finished games!
The lighting makes this game. Great lighting and visual effetcs coupled with a nice retro art style. However the gameplay itself was a bit to clunky for me.
Very cool concept, very Portal-esque. The lighting was great, but it would have been nice if it was a little bright, it was hard to see what I was looking at. Great work though, the item swap is very satisfying
My only complaint is that it's really hard to see archer projectiles. I also agree that some ambient sound and SFX, if not music, would have gone a long way.
Neat mechanic, though a bit frustrating. Level generation is cool, but I seemed to get trapped fairly easily. Overall I had a really hard time progressing, but it was still enjoyable.
Quite a fun game, I really like the mechanic. I love how you can bunny hop through the game and also along sets of walls. The glow makes it hard to see the edge of the level a lot though and not knowing where you end up when you use the staff sometimes leads to some irritating deaths.
I really like the procedurally generated levels. It takes a while to get the hang of the shots, but once you do it's really satisfying. I wish they moved a bit faster! Some music or FX would have been choice.
28! Nice use of the dynamic lighting and interesting 'swapper' mechanic. Is there some procedural generation of the level going on too? Pretty nifty for 30hrs!
Very nice game, and very hard, too bad there wasn't any sounds; and very impressive for a second compo! Keep up the good work, you may end up in the top games soon!
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My only complaint is that it's really hard to see archer projectiles. I also agree that some ambient sound and SFX, if not music, would have gone a long way.
Good luck!
Very hard, but very good :-)