The Great Collector
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#The Great Collector
The Great Collector is a puzzle-action game where you play as a great collector octopus to catch falling shinny collectibles and organize them in a grid inventory. Match collections to score points, earn money, and purchase upgrades to progress through increasingly challenging levels.
- Catch collectibles with your hook
- Place them in your inventory grid to form collections
- Match 2 or more adjacent items of the same color to score points
- Earn enough money before the timer runs out to advance to the next level
- Catch Phase: Use the hook to catch falling collectibles
- Scoring Phase: The game scores your matched patterns
- Shop Phase: Spend earned money on upgrades
- Repeat: Start the next level
- Up/Down or w/s: Move arm vertically
- left/right or a/d: Switch arm between left and right sides
- Space: Shoot hook
- Arrow Keys: Move collectible in grid during placement mode
- space: Confirm placement
- Down or s: Continue to next phase (during scoring/shop)
- Up: Refresh the shop
- Aseprite
- larbchirp
- Ableton Live
- Font is fibberish by Caffinate
The Great Collector is a puzzle-action game where you play as a great collector octopus to catch falling shinny collectibles and organize them in a grid inventory. Match collections to score points, earn money, and purchase upgrades to progress through increasingly challenging levels.
Objective
- Catch collectibles with your hook
- Place them in your inventory grid to form collections
- Match 2 or more adjacent items of the same color to score points
- Earn enough money before the timer runs out to advance to the next level
Game Flow
- Catch Phase: Use the hook to catch falling collectibles
- Scoring Phase: The game scores your matched patterns
- Shop Phase: Spend earned money on upgrades
- Repeat: Start the next level
Controls
Movement
- Up/Down or w/s: Move arm vertically
- left/right or a/d: Switch arm between left and right sides
- Space: Shoot hook
Placement
- Arrow Keys: Move collectible in grid during placement mode
- space: Confirm placement
Shop
- Down or s: Continue to next phase (during scoring/shop)
- Up: Refresh the shop
Tools used
- Godot- Aseprite
- larbchirp
- Ableton Live
- Font is fibberish by Caffinate