You should have stayed out of Derry..

by vulpineblazeyt

co-authored: @blondhie, @mightyfeinmonster

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.10

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.19

HTML5: [ [Play Here] ](http://fusionbombsderp.com/ld46)

Controls:

* WASD to Move
* Arrows Keys to Throw Knives

Plot:

You are *Henry Bowers*, and you are gonna kill everyone in the Loser's Club to _Keep IT Safe_. Deep down in the sewers no one will ever know. Though you will have the chance to face The Losers one on one, they each carry a subtle ability:
* Richie - He's a quick little shit
* Mike - It just seems like you can't kill this guy
* Stan - This kid has some thick skin
* Ben - He can throw a lot of em, but they don't make it far
* Bev - This girl's got an arm
* Bill - Bill-s-s-s will appear
* Eddie - He must have like 5 Lives

Don't worry. Help will float down here.

Watch out, *STONES* will break your bones.

Using:

* Phaser 3
* GIMP
* bfxr.net
* nginx
* github
* Chrome Music Lab
* Procreate

Tools: Bfxr, GIMP, Phaser

Comments14

ForeverTrash20 Apr 2020, 04:31

Super hard to beat any levels, had a hard enough time with one then they spawned two on me 😂 Still a super nice idea, decent mechanics although the bots have better shoot systems than we do. But nice art, keep it up bro!

MikeSalyh20 Apr 2020, 04:36

The characters are nicely drawn, and I like the humor. It's really hard; it took me 5 tries to eventually beat one of the kids.

kromeboy20 Apr 2020, 11:15

Nice to see that i an not the only one who thinked an IT themed game :-D

vulpineblazeytauthor21 Apr 2020, 06:05

Sorry y'all - I beat those kids so many times in the last 48h that the difficulty might have *scaled* a bit lol ...
Pro-tip: *Focus on dodging and let your weapon jitter take care of the Loser.*

Dedicave21 Apr 2020, 06:22

The game is quite difficult, and what happens on the screen is not well understood. A little slow, and the music becomes repetitive. The graphics are good, I like the style. And like the idea overall.

Phlip4521 Apr 2020, 06:29

Was a pretty good little arena gauntlet thing, but I found a pretty bad bug. If you start the game and spam 'W' (for instance if you are an impatient little bugger like myself) it seems to either skip some levels or else spawn multiple enemies at the same time. Probably starting multiple game instances at once. The game behaves very strangely at that point with the enemy kid just teleporting around, or for instance I started the game shooting a knife and wearing a paper hat (also had a donald duck hat at some point).

ggrusha21 Apr 2020, 09:28

Unfortunately, I didn't understand where my spider was going)

vulpineblazeytauthor22 Apr 2020, 02:09

@dedicave, Yeah, I've got a few nested-nested-nested loops lol ... I want to expand testing more, since I dont expect everyone to pack Ryzens and i9s lol

@Phlip45, You might have been fighting Bill, whose s-s-s-studder effect spawns more than one of him.

@ggrusha, Spider is one of the possible starting powerups, and just follows you :)

Khud022 Apr 2020, 13:15

Colliders seem to be a bit off on characters and projectiles and I couldn't read text because it faded away very fast. I suggest adding a button to skip text, but letting player to read it at their pace. Otherwise this duel idea might have something in it

No Grapes Games26 Apr 2020, 04:19

It worked as a shooter. Not really balanced so it had hard to find something unique about it. Nice entry keep at it.

Super Hadoken26 Apr 2020, 14:44

I do like a bit of arena action. The player character could do with a bit more speed to compensate for the difficulty or slower enemy projectiles.

vulpineblazeytauthor26 Apr 2020, 23:16

@khud0 My wife said the same thing - the skip buttons are W and UP, the same ones the player had been mashing when they died. That's my bad for not listening lol

@no-grapes-games I had been playing Isaac beforehand, and playtesting a lot ... As I mentioned, its a touch harder than someone walking into it fresh lol

@super-hadoken The spider grants a speed boost if you can get him ;)

pierallard5 May 2020, 10:16

Nice graphics! Super hard game.

JacksGamesSucks6 May 2020, 07:15

Hi, i found 2 bugs that can be fixed in order to make gameplay better: 1) enemies can go out through the wall, 2) enemies respawn on you (very close to you).

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