Topaz and Moonstone have been captured by the RoboCulkins! Escape their clutches!

This is a rogue-lite-lite-lite for Secret Santa Jam 2021. I tried my best to work in the preferences of the giftee as well as the titular cats! Although the jam lasted a month, I didn't have much time to work on this. I believe in total its about 20 hours of work, done mostly this last Friday and Saturday

Good stuff:
  • It's a thing you can play. That is better than I usually do with jams so I'm happy.
  • The giftee owns the titular cats, and I thought for a bit on how a player could control two avatars. I ended up with the spinning cats!
  • I enjoyed animating the RoboCulkins a lot. I used to do really small animations when I was a kid, but working as a software engineer doesn't lend itself to many chances to play around with animation.
  • I like the art style. Wait, hear me out! I think mixing stuff together collage-style is really fun. Plus, as a child of the flash age, when games were crude and oftentimes ugly, it just felt right.
  • This was my first time recording my own sound effects for a game!
  • Writing the room generation algorithm took a while. I was on day 2 of working all day and my brain was fried. Once I got the random walk working though I was psyched!
Bad stuff:
  • There's no boss. I wanted a boss, but I ran out of time.
  • The DVD-logo-esque movement of the RoboCulkins came from several hours of trying to spin my own pathfinding. I had wanted to do something that used colliders to inform the enemy where to go. Obviously, I gave up!
  • Lack of variety in general. I wanted deeper rogue-y stuff: more enemy types, more obstacle types, pickups.
  • The music is pretty awful. I didn't even plug my MIDI controller in because I was so down to the wire. I just put some beep and boops together in 5 minutes and called it good enough.
  • Default unity UI stuff......
Not my stuff, licensed via Creative Commons:
Not my stuff, licensed via Pixabay License
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StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorEvan Sampson
GenreAction
Tags2D, Cats, Robots, Roguelite, Short

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Mini Mech Media2 years ago

I appreciated the sound effects and music. Gameplay was challenging! I was only able to beat it after discovering an ~exploit~ epic strat:

Spoilers Below

You can shoot through doors, so I cleared a few rooms without directly facing the Culkins

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Evan Sampson2 years ago

Ha! I used Unity tags for the collision logic and evidently did not mark the doors up correctly. (they were the last thing I did heh)

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