The Obelisk

by wilsk
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

About


Build issues have been fixed in v1.1.3, available now on itch https://wilsk.itch.io/the-obelisk. Let me know if you come across any other issues

Three explorers travel through the jungle and find a mysterious stone obelisk. Suddenly the jungle comes alive, and creature pour out to attack the explorers. They are quickly overcome, but the obelisk is not done with them. It strengthens them and stands them once more in front of the horde.

How to play


You control three characters fighting a horde of jungle creatures. Use the arrow buttons on the right to move the characters between one of three lanes. Characters will auto attack. Purchase upgraded abilities and use them with Q, W, E, R, D and F. Try to outlast all the waves, or give up - I have no idea if its beatable :spy:

Notes


This game was made with Bevy (a new Rust game engine). I used Aseprite for the artwork and recorded the sounds in audacity. Its a windows only download, but in theory could be built for Linux/MacOS. There are some bugs but its more or less what I had in mind.

There are a few known issues I ran out of time to fix, but the game should be playable (if possibly unbalanced):

- the source code is a bit of a mess!
- ability cooldowns have gone AWOL
- clicking "give up" sometimes crashes to desktop instead of going to the menu (eventually Bevy won't CTD for this particular issue).
- player level ups don't seem to apply (not sure if a UI issue or if they're actually not applied)

screenshot

Comments8

Julius Vander Arend5 Oct 2020, 20:07
Sorry to say, but I couldn't get it to run. The console was stuck on loading the start scene 0 out of 33 assets loaded or something of that sort.
wilskauthor6 Oct 2020, 04:40
Hi @oliver-richmeier and @julius-vander-arend. I can't replicate these on my own setup but there have been a few reports about this. If you do get a chance to post some crash logs from the console that would be helpful. Thanks for trying the game out :sweat_smile:
wilskauthor6 Oct 2020, 04:46
Ah actually it looks like I may have some leads for this, will try to sort out a fix
Vleue6 Oct 2020, 08:24
Seemed a little hard before I used skills, my explorers were dead by wave 2.
After I saw that I can just spam skills it was easy...

Maybe have skills use mana, which currently stays at 0. Also after I bought all the skills I can't use my exp to buy a new level?
Chukwuebuka_racer7 Oct 2020, 23:50
Nice, buh i couldn't control the three men at a time
FelixMcFelix
FelixMcFelix12 Oct 2020, 19:45
Difficult to control, but I figured it out on the second go. The graphics are nice!

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