Just Another Tuesday

by gus-goucher

co-authored: @t-r-e-f-e-t-h-e-n

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.15

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Summary

Fight your way through a dungeon after being summoned by (and accidentally crushing) a necromancer, killing monsters and crafting weapons along the way. Battle through three different areas to get the best time you can (or simply to try and survive!)

Created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 55 by Braeden Trefethen and Angus Goucher. Made with Godot 4, FL Studio, Audiokinetic Wwise, and Aseprite.

Pics

Controls

⚠️NOTE: IF YOU HAVE A CONTROLLER PLUGGED IN THE GAME WILL USE THAT AS ITS INPUT!⚠️

*Play with controller if you can! Keyboard also supported.*

Attack: Right Bumper / Left Click

Aim: Right Stick / Cursor

Move: Left Stick / WASD

Dash: Left Bumper / Space

Craft: Left Face Button (Square on PS) / E

Thanks for taking a look!

Tags: #2d, #hack and slash, #pixel art

Genres: action

Tools: Aseprite, FL Studio, Godot

Comments17

Goofte16 Apr 2024, 14:48

Fun concept! Combining monster parts to make your weapons and keep cycling them is funnn.

Iwant_Pizza17 Apr 2024, 18:56

I like it, i like it all. But this game need co-op/

LDJam user 27659318 Apr 2024, 09:45

Really, really enjoyed this one. The visuals are absolutely superb. I love that sort of "80s futurism" style, like a HD Ultima overworld or something like that. Aesthetically the rest was great too. Good sounds, good art.

Game feels nice to play, almost kind of an Isaac-like in a way. I wish the weapons lasted a bit longer!

I wasn't able to beat it even after a few gos, but that's because I am bad at games 😃

Catlard19 Apr 2024, 03:03

Great visuals and audio.

I couldn't aim while using keyboard when my controller was plugged in, so took a while to figure that out, but after that it was nothing but fun! Hard to believe it was made in such a short time.

Dash mechanic feels really great.

skransow19 Apr 2024, 03:38

I like the music a lot, it fits the style and mood of the game well

Jezzamon19 Apr 2024, 03:41

Wow, very well polished game! I gave it about 10 tries but still couldn't beat it though, even on easy mode :cry: But the game did make we want to keep coming back to it!

Maybe I'll come back and try again sometime

Adam Gallina19 Apr 2024, 03:43

I really like the crafting, it made the combat really dynamic, and it was especially fun to see what the different mob combinations did. I found the dash to be a little difficult, not sure if I could have changed the resolution/zoom, but it was really easy to dash into something offscreen and take damage. Really fun game aside from that though, great job!

Jahwffrey19 Apr 2024, 03:57

Nice job! Great enemy sprites, love the little skeleton too, and it was always very exciting to make a new weapon combination and see what happened. There were several times I dashed over spikes only to hit an enemy I couldn't have seen beforehand which kinda sucked, and one-life-then-back-to-the-start is *pretty* punishing, but there were even multiple areas with different tilesets and lots of wacky enemies to meet. Thank you also for including controller support so I didn't have to use my terrible track pad.

TheLastSlowpoke19 Apr 2024, 06:01

@catlard Oh huh thank you very much, I almost gave up on this one, and boy I would miss out! Mouse aiming doesn't work if controller is plugged in indeed, but the controller wasn't working for me either.
I think it's the best game I played today. The flying eyes are hard to learn to fight melee, but other than that it plays really nice. I love the idea of weapon crafting like this. Whip, my beloved

Arman21 Apr 2024, 06:30

Very polished, especially considering the time constraints. Pretty fun overall and very charming. The crafting aspect is cool but it could use a bit more depth. Also, the theme could have been a bigger aspect of the game.

onqdll22 Apr 2024, 03:47

I had a lot of fun playing Hotline Miami and this brought me the same type of joy. Crafting is very intuitive and doesn't get in the way. Great job!

Retrific24 Apr 2024, 13:20

Damn this is good. Love the mechanic that you can get a lot of different weapons based on what you decide to craft together. I just wish I wouldnt need to waste items because i can only carry two spare items. They also get used up pretty quickly.

Anyway, crazy amount of content for a gamejam game, nice artstyle where everything goes well together and a lot of potential. One of the best games I've played so far. And you even added a cool intro (I love how he spins when he is sucked into the portal lol)

Nazorus24 Apr 2024, 17:06

Wow, it's crazy what you were able to achieve in just 72 hours! This is a solid dungeon crawler roguelike with strong visuals and audio (I really like the Banjo-Kazooie vibe of the music). Combat feels really good, the UI is great (special mention to the health "bar"), crafting is simple and satisfying, everything is top notched and feels very professional.

Just wondering, why is the game requesting internet access? Are you gathering telemetry on player behavior?

In any case this is a very strong entry, good job!

Gus Goucherauthor25 Apr 2024, 23:04

@nazorus Unsure why the default Godot export settings need internet access, we aren't doing any internet stuff and there's probably a toggle for it somewhere in the export settings that I missed. Thanks for the heads up, will make sure to figure that out for future games and of course thanks for playing!

kr4ft3r27 Apr 2024, 21:47

Really a great game, so many details to like, with the only flaw being that it is too easy to die, meaning it requires more effort than what LD crowd usually gives. I noticed the "easy" option that includes healing, but it goes against gamer instincts to choose such dishonorable option, hence it doesn't really help. Just giving players 25% more hitpoints would rectify the situation I believe. Outside of LD this would also be a great game, though with more randomization to compensate for easy dying and make replays more fun.

HollowTsun2 May 2024, 13:24

A great concept ! I love the idea of combining monsters part to make our own weapons.The game overall is polished and very fun to play ! It's amazing to make such a game in such a short time. Good job !

neontropics2 May 2024, 20:33

I really dug the graphics in this! Lots of personality. The gameplay is smooth and has some nice strategy and everything just feels good, one of my favorite playing games this jam. I liked the variety of weapons and how later ones usually felt more satisfying.

The theme felt a bit like just window dressing would be the only negative, but this was a great jam entry!

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