Story (should have been in the game so added here instead)
You are a freshman from an engineer school, and, sadly, you have lost everything in business because you followed your best friend who wanted to make a video game studio.
You're now broke, and homeless. Even your friends and family have forsaken you because they were disapproving of you doing making video games for a living in the first place ("too risky" they said).
As you're looking for a nice bridge to sleep under, an unknown man approaches and makes an offer to you : he loans money to you so that you can live on, and you must engage in Underground Robot Fight in exchange (a business of his) until you pay it back.
You decide to take his offer. Will you succeed in paying your loan back ? Will you let your debt swallow you whole ? Or will you awaken to the Underground Robot Fight Beauty, and become the uncontested boss of the arena ?
How to play (or at least how it was meant to be played)
The game has two phases, a preparation phase and a fighting phase.
You win when you manage to pay back your loan.
To earn money, you can have your robot fight every night. The stronger the foe, the greater the reward.
Either you win or lose, if your robot is damaged, it is repaired the following day. This is not magic, this is engineering. (you can at least handle this much after studying this for 5 years I hope)
You pay interests everyday as long as you have ongoing loans. Generally, the higher the loans, the higher the interests amount.
You can spend your remaining fund on robot upgrade to win over tougher opponents, and earn more money.
You lose if you go bankrupt.
Fights explained
This is a one on one robot fight with a turn-based combat system. Your robot is always on the left hand side.
You can choose one of 3 attack types :
- Attack : Your robot performs a physical attack, effective against Projectile - Guard : Your robot attempts to parry and counter incoming attack, effective against Attack - Projectile : Your robot performs a ranged attack, effective against Guard
Both robot strike at the same time when you press either of three attack button.
You win if your oponent's health reaches 0.
You lose if your robot's health reaches 0.
PRO TIPS
1. enemy attacks are not random. Each enemy generally have a preference for a certain attack type. Stay alert ! (we all have our favorite attack in such games don't we ?) 2. Each attack type deals more damage when your opponent perform a certain other attack type. be sure to check health bars when blows are exchanged. 3. On the right side of the screen, an attack type icon is displayed next to a percentage range. This is the probability for your oponent to perform an attack of the shown type (SKL on the screenshot above). The range will get more precise as your OBS stat increases.
Preparation phase
During this phase, you can
- pay back your loan (and win if you pay back everything) - upgrade your robot or your character
#### Money
In this panel, you can check how much you have left to pay, and info about each of the loans you have taken.
Yes, you are already broke AND indebted with one loan, and you can borrow more money if you need.
The fights will get tougher as you days pass so you'll probably need to resort to this to overcome stronger enemies. Be careful though as your daily payments will increase too. Don't go bankrupt!
#### Robot upgrades
Here, you can buy upgrades to make your robot stronger.
DMG increases the damage dealt by all three attack types. DEF decreases the damage you take. SKL makes effective attack types even stronger and reduces the damage taken when your opponent hits you with an effective attack. There are also special upgrade you can unlock later which effects are described on the Interface.
Oh, and you can also check out your robot's stats on the right side!
#### Character upgrades
Buy assets for yourself!
There's only one upgrade on this screenshot but there might be more when the game is actually released.
OBS stands for Observation and increases your odds to see through your oponent's next move during a fight!
Click the "you" tab to check your character's stats.
PRO TIPS
Your reputation will have an effect on the loans you can take. Higher reputation means better deals!
Edit after release :
I have written the how to play section with hope everything would be ok but sadly we couldn't fix all bugs in time. It is actually playable but the game never really ends as the win screen doesn't trigger when you pay back all your loans. If you do reach this stage, consider you have won :smile: If your money balanced gets in the negative, you're supposed to have lost. Also, be gentle with the UI (don't click too fast) as some other unexpected behavior might occur...
Sorry, I could not play well, cause i have mac, and i could play with web version only. And yellow buttons are barely visible on white background. So it was difficult to understand whats going on and I could not play well.
At the same time our game does not have any other builds at all, except windows XD
A really impressive job, especially the UI and graphics. Musics are also quite cool (battle music is, may be, a little bit too high in comparison with menu music)
very nice idea and a lot of work done. how ever sadly there are way too many bugs. the "you win/you lose" screen appears before either robot runs out of health for example. there's bugs with money, robots appearing in the middle of arena instead of edge, etc and that really ruins the fun sadly :c still, i liked it a lot and hope you'll release later patches with less bugs!
Don't know about the others but I didn't encountered many bugs, it doesn't ruin the experience at all. Nice entry, maybe a bit too ambitious, but a lot of work has already been done and the game is pretty cool!
@djindegames Thanks for the comment, we were definitely too ambitious and ran out of time to properly test or implement everything. Many issues are specific to things like screen resolution (ultrawide simply doesn't work at all), tutorial button doesn't work on fullscreen, etc
Other bugs are only visual, like the health bars not updating on the last hit of the fight (but the hit does work properly).
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The graphics are beautiful, great work :)
@jd-parker @ostrich @krjack : Thank you all :D
At the same time our game does not have any other builds at all, except windows XD
More musics could have been cool.
I played a lot.
Congratulations
Happy you enjoyed it :)
and that really ruins the fun sadly :c
still, i liked it a lot and hope you'll release later patches with less bugs!
Other bugs are only visual, like the health bars not updating on the last hit of the fight (but the hit does work properly).