Heartaker

Hey folks! How you doin’?

I'm thankful for presenting you Heartaker - a hack n slash about slicing enemies in a half with a katana!

Before you download the game, I would strongly advise you to get a mouse in order to play the game - it might be a bit harder playing in the trackpad.

Developer Comments

After so many Ludum Dares I think I'm getting good at creating games that I enjoy play and make. I've had a hard time working almost 30 hours in this project and doing all sorts of stuff; from game design to programming, drawing, animating, making music and some sounds with my voice - recorder on my phone haha!

It is worth mentioning that, although I made the entire game in the weekend, some things really helped me a lot, like using a proper engine and some powerful tools, like Game Maker Studio 2, Photoshop, Spine, Audacity, Sony Vegas and some AI-based tools.

Composing and animating were for sure the hardest parts of the game. It is worth saying that I used a lot of music and sound effect generators for this game, that was later mixed with some of my voice and drum/flute samples till I get an original and meaningful soundtrack.

ChangeLog

The version for download has been modified after the weekend, in order to:

[Version 1.0.0.1]
- Fix a bug that would stick the player on the afterlife of the game.
- Fix a bug that would prevent the game from continuing whenever an enemy fell out of the map on specific waves.

[Version 1.0.0.2]
- Gameover screen is faster.
- Upgrades are cheaper.
- Shopkeeper's dialogue is faster.
- Spawn time is faster.
- You can restart the game.
- Enemies reset attack timer after dash encounter.
- Camera correctly looks at the player if he falls from the map.
- Game starts in fullscreen.
- Samurai's icon should look sharper.

Original source and executable at the [Compo - Original] link. *This version may get stuck at some points of the game, in this case, the only alternative is to restart the executable.*

That's it

I hope you enjoy my game! :)

*Please, let me a comment to know what you think about the game, this way I can also play yours later!*