Dread Dash: Rise of the Skeletal Horde immerses you in a real-time strategy experience, placing you in the role of a necromancer desperately fleeing from an encroaching army.
Controls
Dread dash is mainly played with the mouse.
- Select individual units by clicking on them, or choose multiple units by holding down the mouse button while moving the cursor. - Click the skeleton head to select all units, or the knight head to view the army's current location. - Select the necromancer portrait to control it. - Issue movement commands by right-clicking anywhere on the ground after selecting a unit, directing them to move in a straight line to the designated location.
Move the camera from left to right using A and D.
Gameplay
Your objective is to evade the advancing army for as long as possible while summoning an army of skeletons to stall its progress.
To achieve this, you can destroy buildings by moving your skeletons nearby, then by starting a ritual if the necromancer is close enough.
Skeletons directed towards the right automatically engage the army, aiding your survival.
Additionally, the necromancer possesses three powerful spells to aid your efforts:
- [Q] Fireball enables destruction of structures from a distance. - [W] Teleportation swiftly send your skeletons to the battlefield. - [E] Casting allows rituals to be initiated remotely without the necromancer's physical presence.
The HTML5 version is available on itch.io.
Credits
- Shinsam: Programming - Plume: Graphics, Sound, Music
The art is super sophisticated, and the game design is on point – you've masterfully smashed two game genres together like a boss. This game is surprisingly addictive and a total blast, I'm totally digging it.
Cool and simple gameplay with RTS-like unit control. I very like chosen color palette! Didn't quite understood difference between two "circle-like" skills (also, fireball can clip through target if mage is too close). Thank you for your hard work anyway!
Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod of the stream (with a chapter for your game)
And I'm the host for the ludum dare score chasers tournament this Ludum Dare. Wanted to ask if youre fine if I put some gameplay of the game in an intermission video. Last year for reference:
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The sprite work is very good and the intro cutscene was also amazing!
Didn't get too far but I had fun!
Incredibly polished for a jam and fun, great job!
And I'm the host for the ludum dare score chasers tournament this Ludum Dare. Wanted to ask if youre fine if I put some gameplay of the game in an intermission video. Last year for reference: