Lifleline Warriors by Narrenschlag

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made by Narrenschlag for LD 44 (JAM)

[INFO]

This is game was created from scratch in 42 hours by 2 persons of which only one was able to really work on it. We continue the development so give a lot of feedback(good AND BAD!!!) and maybe you will be a proud winner of a character or weapon or upgrade dedicated to you! P.S.: The quit button was made for the desktop version so the browser player crashes on it! ^^

P.S.: There is an ORIGINAL and an UPDATED version at the links. The original version was the game we originally submitted to the end of the jam with some bugfixes. The updated version is the version we are continuing development on. Enjoy ๐Ÿ‘‡

[PLOT]

Once upon a time the world was normal, everybody lived their lifes as normal as in our world but than a young magician learned how to controll the time and stole all of the lifetime of the people surrounding him and gave it to himself. This made him immortal to aging and with that he could kill anybody by just stealing their remaining lifetime. Since then the currency changed from gold to lifetime so the richest become immortal while the young folk gives their lifetime away to survive.

But after 500 years of suppression and slavery a band of young heroes set themselves the goal to otherthrow the necromancer of lifetime to free the world of his greedy hands.

[KEYBINDINGS(Inputs)]

E - Pickup Equipment on the ground || WASD/Arrow Keys - Movement || Left Mousebutton - Attack || Middle Mousebutton - Switch weapons if you have more than one(max 2)

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[What will be done next?]

We will work on the AI because this one is just doing it's job to attack and kill the player... Most of the time. So we will improve it!

We'll add bossfights and a story so you have a goal.

We'll work on more and better graphics

We'll add a map generator and maybe a custom map maker to spawn bosses and enemies to kill for fun!

Ratings

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Feedback

Memel06
29. Apr 2019 ยท 21:52 UTC
Please, make a linux or web version, not everybody have windows :(
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
29. Apr 2019 ยท 22:10 UTC
@memel06 I will do that tomorrow. Just got no time left to that. I'll mention u here when it's aviable! ๐Ÿ˜„

Greetings,
Max
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 11:36 UTC
@memel06 Browser Version is out: https://narrenschlag.itch.io/lifeline-warriors
Memel06
30. Apr 2019 ยท 11:42 UTC
Thanks! I'll bookmark this entry and I'll play it after work
DarkFire1337
30. Apr 2019 ยท 12:03 UTC
You realize it's a alpha game.
And After Wave 2 you cant shut please fix it.
Gronther
30. Apr 2019 ยท 12:28 UTC
Solid work for a (almost) single man team. Good art, fun gameplay. I love the little _swoosh_ effects on the melee weapons. There appears to be a broken upgrade in the shop. It just shows a white square and you can't buy it. Otherwise, great work!
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 12:47 UTC
@gronther That's the placeholder because there are no upgrades remaining. I am working on more but I had to do them in last minute.

Thanks a lot for the feedback! :)
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 12:48 UTC
@darkfire1337 Fixed the bug and added some new features.

Thx for the feedback mate.
GhostGoatsGames
30. Apr 2019 ยท 14:24 UTC
Really solid game play and I love the graphics. Its a bit hard though. I was never able to get past the start of level 2, I just got surrounded on start. Maybe making the game easier in the beginning so I can learn the controls better or at least keeping so many enemies away from the spawn would be better. Either way, great job! PS: The graphics are great and its one of the better looking games I've played in the jam so far.
neowhoru
30. Apr 2019 ยท 14:32 UTC
Really smooth gameplay and cool graphics. But its hard to beat the game as all enemies are following you directly :D But its really cool game.
DaniDev
30. Apr 2019 ยท 14:39 UTC
Cool my guy, mechanics are smooth. It's hella hard tho :D
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 14:40 UTC
@neowhoru hehe thx for the "P.S."! :smile:
That is a pretty good idea with the increasing difficulty.

Thank you a lot for the feeedback mate! :v:
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 14:42 UTC
@neowhoru thx! Yes the game is very hard because of the AI.
Wanted to work on it earlier but the time ran out because I had to do all of the art myself when my artist wasn't able to give me the stuff I needed.

The enemies often surround you and hug you to death... SO YES I will work on that! ^^

Thx for the feedback! :smiley:
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 15:19 UTC
@danidev THX!
The AI is broken yes ^^
5n1p3r_4r73m1s
30. Apr 2019 ยท 15:22 UTC
![291[1].jpg](///raw/b1e/12/z/23cbb.jpg)

Have much fun playing this game, P.S. Geralt is **OP**, but still very overpowered AI....but still fun to play :D

graphics etc. are also cool enough
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 16:17 UTC
@5n1p3r-4r73m1s Ty man! Geralt of Beefia is a cousin of Geralt of Rivia... ;P
Rancoud
30. Apr 2019 ยท 20:06 UTC
Good work!
It is fun but the start is too fast, I die instantly at the begin.
I find that last character is the only one to be useful because the distant enemy are not reachable.
Add a new environment, because it's always the same (I manage to access only level 4 ^^)
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
30. Apr 2019 ยท 20:37 UTC
@rancoud fixed the start and made the other classes a lot more balanced!
Nerzal
30. Apr 2019 ยท 23:22 UTC
Played it on stream <3 Nice game!
You may only want to fix the movement, if you walk in 2 directions.If you do that you get really fast.
Darsyn
01. May 2019 ยท 04:13 UTC
Nice game! It would be better with some fast music ^^
RobotSoulsGames
01. May 2019 ยท 08:28 UTC
Did you make the SFX by blowing into the mic? The game felt a bit repetitive, but fun for a bit. I didn't like having to click the scroll wheel in, because on the webpage, it caused it to scroll.
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 09:34 UTC
@darsyn Thx! :D
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 09:34 UTC
@robotsoulsgames yes I did... :D
I am working on more variety
> Level generation
> Boss fights
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 10:14 UTC
@robotsoulsgames Fixed it now you can scroll
harusame
01. May 2019 ยท 10:44 UTC
Nice game ^^ Very fun to play, great gameplay. It can be better with a nice music ^^
I enjoy playing it.

Not very innovative (many game have the same "trade HP for powerup" but the theme was bad and I do the same thing ^^)
Hare Software
01. May 2019 ยท 10:51 UTC
This game has some really great additions, such as the arrow pointing towards the last enemy and different characters that all are unique. The gameplay is fine and quite challenging, but the archers are annoying since they move just as fast away from you as you walk towards them. Other than that, graphics are nice. Well done!
Vlad Dae
01. May 2019 ยท 11:17 UTC
The gameplay is neat! I like it ๐Ÿ‘
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 11:54 UTC
@harusame thank you! :3
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 11:55 UTC
@hare-software yeah they are! ^^
Take the lettuce boots! They are countering them.

Thanks for the feedback mate! :D
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 11:55 UTC
@vlad-dae Thank you a lot! ^^
m110
01. May 2019 ยท 12:56 UTC
Great concept with the upgrades!
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
01. May 2019 ยท 13:02 UTC
@m110 thx! :P
Majadroid
01. May 2019 ยท 13:47 UTC
Good job, I really liked playing the game. It's worth keep on working in it!
ForeignOreo
01. May 2019 ยท 13:56 UTC
The game was worth playing and it was really fun! I enjoyed it!

#narrenschlag
Pusheeneiro
01. May 2019 ยท 14:22 UTC
It's Geralt and the game gets better right away ;)
Coisne Nathan
01. May 2019 ยท 16:10 UTC
This game was really fun to play ! really liked the visual effect on melee weapon
Raphael Maia
01. May 2019 ยท 21:42 UTC
Really fun, but mouse clicking in web version is always so buggy to me
BenBurgh
02. May 2019 ยท 15:25 UTC
I think you've got a solid game loop here! Let me know if you do keep working on it.


I played this game on stream, you can find the timestamp at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14MpruNv7RN4pVCr4go77VXJuePogxHuI9intx5phEqk/edit?usp=sharing
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 15:29 UTC
@benburgh Thank you a lot! :D
Yes we are continuing the development on it!
Have you played the game after the giant update or before? :P
Black Flag
02. May 2019 ยท 15:34 UTC
Really satisfying combat and I like the character select feature. The dungeons were also well made! Overall, a really fun game!
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 16:44 UTC
@black-flag Thank you so so much! :)
BenBurgh
02. May 2019 ยท 16:45 UTC
@narrenschlag not sure... I played it Tuesday at ~8PM EST
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 16:52 UTC
@benburgh Give it a new try, we updated it and gave it a new map. Take a look at it :P
Faithcaio
02. May 2019 ยท 18:08 UTC
Solid game. Kiting with ranged weapons seems to work too good.
Duke
02. May 2019 ยท 18:16 UTC
Wow! Nice work. Really liked the fighting system and the variations of weapons. The game could use some polish around the edges, but all in all, it's fun to play.
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 18:17 UTC
@Duke Thank you a lot! :smiley:
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 18:17 UTC
@faithcaio Thank you mate!
Kylazaur
02. May 2019 ยท 20:47 UTC
Good job with game, I didn't understand the plot from the gameplay but maybe that's because of the time pressure, hopefully you guys can make it make more sense as the plot sounded super fun (:
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
02. May 2019 ยท 21:06 UTC
@kylazaur Thx! :smile:
Yeah wanted to embed it into the game but it had a low priority so we'll add it with the first bosses.
Rahtainka
02. May 2019 ยท 23:50 UTC
A fun little game.

**Positive things: **

- nice graphics and artstyle
- gameplay feels good


**Negative things: **

- music would be nice

It's a solid entry. Well done!
๐ŸŽค Narrenschlag
06. May 2019 ยท 10:42 UTC
@rahtainka Thx a lot! We'll add music and bosses! :D
SoggyBreadHands
06. May 2019 ยท 14:02 UTC
Fun game with nice mechanics and compelling audio , good work on this entry