Swappy Dungeon

Swappy Dungeon!
A simple generated dungeon game, with swappable tilesheets!
I always enjoy these MiniLDs. So relaxed.

The background music was taken off of freemusicarchive.org, I did not create it, it was made by "Rolemusic" on there.
Any sound effects I made using BFXR.

Total time spent on game: 24,5 hours.

The tilesheet you choose affects difficulty and visuals of the entire game, so choose wisely! :D
(You can pick a new one after each run.)

Controls are basic and straightforward:
WASD or Arrowkeys - Move
Space or Mouse1 - Attack

360 Controller:
LStick or Dpad - Move
A or Y - Attack

Controls are rebindable in the input tab in the window you get when you first start the game.

Enjoy! I had a lot of fun making this.

Genres: action

Comments24

masterboth16 May 2015, 16:13
It looks awesome! but unfortunately it doesn't run on Mac, it says it can't be opened.
masterboth16 May 2015, 16:24
But it does work under wine. Great game! I wish some of the random sprites had trasparency, those who don't look aweful.
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor16 May 2015, 16:46
Yeah I can't fix that, will have a look at it when I get the package of spritesheets & website source after the jam ends, then I can sort it a bit :)
Evergreen Games17 May 2015, 07:43
mac build comes in as a .rar and when i renamed to .app, it says i can't open powerPC applications. :( this looks really cool
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor17 May 2015, 09:18
The .app is inside a folder inside the .rar, you should be able to open it I think, I've never had anyone tell me .rar wasn't open-able on macs :O
jonbro17 May 2015, 23:24
sweet! I had a bunch of unfair kinda things where I was killed right as I entered a new room, but not a big deal I don't think.

with the mac not executing, you gotta go into the MacOS folder and chmod the executable to be executable (chmod 755 or whatever). I think that zips tend to handle file permissions a bit better cross platform, but I am not 100% sure.
Evergreen Games18 May 2015, 08:24
Okay. it turns out i didn't have an application to unpack rar files. i downloaded one and changed the permissions as jonbro suggested and it worked! its a really cool game. i wish the weapon was a little easier to use, as you have to get right up close to the enemies. also there should always be a reward for defeating a big enemy. the rooms were nicely constructed and always felt fresh. you made all the different sheets work surprisingly well, none looked terrible. very solid overall.
sebasRez
sebasRez18 May 2015, 13:04
Looks so good and done so quick! How did you manage to get the shop to change colors to match the tiles?
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor18 May 2015, 14:16
The shop and UI just use tiles from the sheet that gets changed globally :D
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor18 May 2015, 14:21
If you're talking about the 3D shop, I jsut unwrapped the model onto the spritesheet (rather sloppily but hey, it works.) so that just gets swapped too as it's still the using the same file for its texture :)
Jezzamon
Jezzamon19 May 2015, 23:02
This game rocks! It's also a great way to test how good a spritesheet is :)
Evergreen Games21 May 2015, 06:58
How did you manage to make every sprite sheet look decent??
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor21 May 2015, 14:10
There's a few sheets that are sorta weird looking but yeah, I just followed the template sheet and had my fingers crossed others did too, and it worked out for the most part :D
ajayajayaj
ajayajayaj23 May 2015, 23:55
Awesome! Music was great! How did you make the chest be certain colors. I couldn't find what sprite you used
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor24 May 2015, 10:28
I used 2 from the lower row and the weird purple color from the end of the first row in the ground tiles I believe. :)
Ditto
Ditto25 May 2015, 14:59
Nice! :D Found while scrolling the frontpage on LD! You tweeted me a while ago about making a sheet from my picture :D Bookmarking this to try it when I get home from work! :D
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor25 May 2015, 19:55
Cool! Yeah that was me :) Let me know what you think! :D
pvtroswold
pvtroswold1 Jun 2015, 13:14
i want some more of it!
ShadowBrain
ShadowBrainauthor1 Jun 2015, 23:29
Working on it man! After I finish up a small other project I'll get back to the expanded version of this. Hope to have it done before the end of this month.
Jupiter_Hadley
Jupiter_Hadley25 Jun 2015, 15:20
Love the graphics and idea of this game, I just wish I knew how to exit the sho... I included it in part 2 of my MiniLD #59 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/tP9eZ5rg_mw

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