Karma Run

About

I've been following LD for a long time, always wanted to participate. This year I took a chance at it!

This was the first jam I participated in, and also my first game developed from scratch (not using a tutorial). Also, please ignore the horrible code... I program as a hobby (mostly)!

I came up with the idea of the game about 2h into the challenge. And this is what I was able to code so far.

The Game

The concept is quite simple:

1. You play as a.. well.. not so nice guy.. and you want to move forward in life
2. Sometimes people will get in your way, so you deal with them
3. You may use some 'special actions' to help you along...
4. ...but beware of the negative karma they may bring in the future

Go as far as you can. Use specials wisely. Things can get really bad, really fast!

Features

* 3 types of NPCs
* 3 different special actions to use
* One inevitable wall of time/karma coming for you...

The more you collect special actions, the easier (and faster) you will get to your goal. But, the more you use them the higher your Karma and the tougher things will get for you in the future... Use special actions wisely!

Things to know

* Like in life, Karma is not instantaneous, but your actions do have consequences
* You can use a special action more than once but it will make your Karma stay negative longer

Playing

Use the arrow keys and numbers to play.

Your goal is to get as far as possible before your karma holds you back and you get crushed by time.

Credits

The great soundtrack was made by @draysound (Hihellohiya) who kindly offered to make some tracks after seeing my initial posts on the LD devblog :)

Known bugs

* If you restart the game with 'R' your previous Karma status will maintain even tho it won't say in the Karma tab on the right hand side. The status will be reset again after you activate the associated special action and wait for it's Karma to subside. Consider this playing on 'hard mode' :D

*(Bugs will be corrected after LD 40 rating period ends and v0.2 is launched :))*

Running from Source Code

An alternative method is running from the source code.

1. Make sure you have Python 3 on your machine
2. Clone the repository at https://github.com/gcmartinelli/karma - `git clone https://github.com/gcmartinelli/karma.git`
3. Go to the game folder at `/karma`
4. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
5. Run the game `python main.py`
6. Enjoy! :)