Elemental Shaft
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Defeat your ennemies in a rock-paper-scissor styled puzzle game, and progress through 25 levels of ever-increasing complexity!
Elemental Shaft is a puzzle game in which you control a "Shifter", a character who takes on the powers and appearance of those they defeat. Following a set of patterns, you must defeat the enemies in your path, and make it to the "goal circle" at the end of each level. Your score increases depending on the time it took to complete a level and how many enemies were defeated (more is better).
New features are introduced every 5 levels or so. Two endings depending on final score, though the epilogue had to be shortened to only a few (somewhat random) text boxes due to time constraints.
The game is built on vanilla RPG Maker MV. I've been working on a custom engine for a while, yet hadn't really produced anything with the environment, so I thought of giving it a try and see how it felt. Lost a couple hours to a false fire emergency, with sound being the collateral, but overall I'm pretty satisfied.
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>> Controls <<
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Arrow keys - Move around
Shift - Move faster
Escape/Backspace - Open game menu
Enter/Space - Confirm (in menus)
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>> Change Log <<
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16-04-20
- Added full game description
- No change to game files
16-04-18 1.1
- Fixed level skip leaving the player on a black screen, sometimes softlocking;
- Fixed two characters in Level 14 being swapped, making the level unwinnable;
- Fixed some characters still using placeholder sprites in some situations;
- Fixed multiple one-way tiles in a row not behaving correctly;
- Added an OS-X build.
Elemental Shaft is a puzzle game in which you control a "Shifter", a character who takes on the powers and appearance of those they defeat. Following a set of patterns, you must defeat the enemies in your path, and make it to the "goal circle" at the end of each level. Your score increases depending on the time it took to complete a level and how many enemies were defeated (more is better).
New features are introduced every 5 levels or so. Two endings depending on final score, though the epilogue had to be shortened to only a few (somewhat random) text boxes due to time constraints.
The game is built on vanilla RPG Maker MV. I've been working on a custom engine for a while, yet hadn't really produced anything with the environment, so I thought of giving it a try and see how it felt. Lost a couple hours to a false fire emergency, with sound being the collateral, but overall I'm pretty satisfied.
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>> Controls <<
===== ===== =====
Arrow keys - Move around
Shift - Move faster
Escape/Backspace - Open game menu
Enter/Space - Confirm (in menus)
===== ===== =====
>> Change Log <<
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16-04-20
- Added full game description
- No change to game files
16-04-18 1.1
- Fixed level skip leaving the player on a black screen, sometimes softlocking;
- Fixed two characters in Level 14 being swapped, making the level unwinnable;
- Fixed some characters still using placeholder sprites in some situations;
- Fixed multiple one-way tiles in a row not behaving correctly;
- Added an OS-X build.