You're the last known survivor of the apocalypse. In a desperate attempt to stay alive, you make deals with the devil at an abandoned crossroads...
*Rules* - Enemies come in waves. Survive as many waves as you can. - Your health is restored between waves. - Between waves the devil appears for a short time. If you stand close enough you can sign pacts to become stronger, but you lose one max. health for each pact you sign. - Every 5 waves one max. health point gets restored. - All upgrades stack. For example: if you get piercing bullets, your bullets will pass through 1 enemy. If you get it again it will pass through 2 enemies, etc.
*Controls* - WASD - Move - Mouse - Aim - LMB - Fire - 1 - Buy upgrade 1 - 2 - Buy upgrade 2 - M - Mute/Unmute music
*Tools/Libs used* - Unity 2019.1 - RetroKit (made by me): Used to create all sprites, animations, sound effects and music for this game. - NavMeshPlus: For path finding/object avoidance.
And my initials here right? What a great implementation of the theme. Pretty solid arena shooting, zombie spawns are a bit difficult, but overall really solid. I also enjoyed, pointing my mouse to the left then walking backwards with d and pretending I was moon walking, way too much.
@commanderstitch That's the feeling I was going for. Glad that worked out. :smile:
@crosenlund79 Oh, that is weird! Did you stand near enough to the devil? Some text should pop-up that you can press 1 and/or 2 to buy different powerups.
@strugglesingamedevelopment Haha, I found that weirdly satisfying as well. :wink: The harsh difficulty was intentional, but I'm sure it could do with some better balancing.
@paragonraptors The short time is intentional, to force the player to make a quick decision. (The devil is a busy man. :wink:) Might have went a bit too far with it though.
I really liked the game, but the randomness of the contracts felt bit off. Multiple times I got twice the option of piercing buullets, while I've already bought it before. Which feels like lost oppertunity to get a useful upgrade. But otherwise really fun little game. Really nice adaptation of the theme, liked that very much.
@JinTsen The randomness can be a bit harsh at times. All the upgrades stack though. So if you bought piercing bullets, your bullets will pass through 1 enemy. If you get it again it will pass through 2 enemies, etc. So it can be very useful to buy the same upgrade multiple times! I should probably put that in the description though, as I don't think it's obvious.
Also, I found that it sometimes better to buy nothing at all and just get through a wave by having more health points. :slight_smile:
Thanks for playing and thanks for your feedback! :smile:
Cool game.The idea with upgrades that player gets from devil is great.I think you should make the time when you speak with devil longer, atleast first 4 waves.Sounds fit very well. Good job!
@jka Yeah, I have nothing against randomness in general. I did not realise that first piercing bullets would only penetrate 1 enemy. Knowing that it makes sense to have it randomized like that. I did realize that sometimes buying nothing is the better option. It's really intersting feature that you can kill yourself by buying a contract with only 1 life left. I just had to try it ^^
Totally wins the award for Best Satan Sprite 20XX Ludum Dare 44. Well done. Fun game. Turned the music off and played the battle theme from Xenoblade 2 for my stream, they all loved it.
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Everything else seemed absolutely fine
@crosenlund79 Oh, that is weird! Did you stand near enough to the devil? Some text should pop-up that you can press 1 and/or 2 to buy different powerups.
@strugglesingamedevelopment Haha, I found that weirdly satisfying as well. :wink: The harsh difficulty was intentional, but I'm sure it could do with some better balancing.
@paragonraptors The short time is intentional, to force the player to make a quick decision. (The devil is a busy man. :wink:) Might have went a bit too far with it though.
@evolus Thanks!
Thanks for playing and the feedback everybody! :smile:
Also, I found that it sometimes better to buy nothing at all and just get through a wave by having more health points. :slight_smile:
Thanks for playing and thanks for your feedback! :smile:
Self-explanatory. Very hard. But fun! I like the 8-bitty music a lot.
I did realize that sometimes buying nothing is the better option.
It's really intersting feature that you can kill yourself by buying a contract with only 1 life left. I just had to try it ^^
@jintsen Haha, that's one of those oversights that became a feature, because it made me smile. :wink: