Slime, Blood and Pain by Steffo

made by Steffo for LD 44 (JAM)

Welcome to the Dungeon!

You are doomed to die in a randomly-generated dungeon, inhabitated by not really friendly creatures: cute slimes, some skeletons, creepy multi-eye monsters...

Luckily, you won't need to rely only on your fists: inside the dungeon you'll be able to find hearts that can heal you (and some that will poison you), and you can also improve your equipment... at a cost. A cost in blood...

Controls

Arrow keys - Select a direction
A - Switch to Attack Mode (Attack in the selected direction)
Escape - Switch to Move Mode (Move in the selected direction)
Space - Skip a turn

Meet the cast

You
You! An adventurer stuck in the Dungeon, willing to sacrifice part of his life to slay more monsters.

Bart Bart, the Shopkeeper. He sells two swords... for your blood!

Slime A slime. Be careful! It can bite with its sharp teeth.

Spooky scary skeletons roam the Dungeon. They wield iron swords: don't get sliced! They can also jump back a square after attacking.

Ranger Some skeletons decided to wield a bow instead of a sword, and will shoot you from far away.

Watcher The terrifying Watcher. He's a mighty foe. He can dash after attacking.

Items

Heart An heart. Heals 1 HP.

HeartPoisoned A poisoned heart! Damages for 1 HP.

Sword This sword deals 3 damage, and can be bought... For 4 of your Max HP!

Sword This sword deals 5 damage, but if you buy it... You will lose 10 Max HP!

Misc

Vase A vase. You can break it, I guess?

Candles Arcane candles. A spell protects them from destruction.

Demon A demon you aren't ever going to see. Our artist thought it looked cool, though.

A final note

We salvaged this in the last Game Jam day from an unplayable mess. It's an awful disaster of code, sprites, and even some audio?

Source Code	https://github.com/Steffo99/LD44/
Windows	https://steffo.itch.io/slime-blood-and-pain
macOS	https://steffo.itch.io/slime-blood-and-pain
Linux	https://steffo.itch.io/slime-blood-and-pain
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/slime-blood-and-pain

Ratings

Given

44🗳️

37🗨️

Feedback

beanslasher

30. Apr 2019 · 08:20 UTC

I like the art style the most, it has that fantasy, mixed with retro, mixed with RPG vibe. Love it!

GhAyoub

30. Apr 2019 · 08:40 UTC

Nice style and good concept :D

Tommyflower

30. Apr 2019 · 08:50 UTC

The sound fx made my day XD. Nice!

Ryano

30. Apr 2019 · 09:03 UTC

I especially enjoyed the background music :)

Kultisti

30. Apr 2019 · 13:53 UTC

I couldn't stop listening to the background music, it was a banger :D ! Otherwise good job, i'dd maybe switch some controls, like escape seems to be a little bit too far to press but other than that worked pretty well!

DrSkort

30. Apr 2019 · 14:00 UTC

Funny game. The background music was really great but it didn't loop :c Also I don't know what the goal is but it was I enjoyed it anyway. It's a really nice funny game and I would play it again if it get's an update :D

Zlabya

30. Apr 2019 · 14:17 UTC

OMG the sound effects are awesome hhhh

KilledByAPixel

30. Apr 2019 · 17:58 UTC

I like the sound and art! Instead of pressing A and Esc all the time to switch between attack mode, maybe just get rid of attack mode, and automatically attack enemies you move into?

schrunkin

30. Apr 2019 · 18:06 UTC

This is a funny game with a surprisingly wonderful soundtrack. As others has said, the music does not loop properly, but i literally lol'ed when it came on - it just fit at lighthearted doungeoncrawler so well. I enjoyed it, and the interplay between the monsters made me keep playing, going multiple levels down!

🎤 Steffo

30. Apr 2019 · 18:31 UTC

@killedbyapixel It's exactly what I thought an hour after publishing the game! :joy: Attack mode is there because we wanted to add ranged weapons, so we added some code for it, but we never finished it... And we never got around removing modes either!

Team-on

01. May 2019 · 00:04 UTC

Controlls really makes me mad. Sometimes I just stopped and think what I should press Space, A, Esc or arrow

JofersGames

01. May 2019 · 13:01 UTC

Love the concept, plays wonderfully, sound was amazing :)

tgiant

01. May 2019 · 16:53 UTC

Interesting concept but I did not enjoy the game play that much.

Spiffy

01. May 2019 · 17:07 UTC

What a lovely song! Art is consistent and great! The switching between attack and move was cumbersome.
Perhaps including some screen shake/noise when hitting/being hit is what is missing. All in all a fine submission.

jaoel

01. May 2019 · 20:55 UTC

I think the control scheme was a bit odd, escape feels like an odd choice.

And I had to alt+F4 out of the game because I couldn't find another way to quit.

I liked the art, and the music was beautiful xD Sadly it stopped playing after a while :(

VinegarLove

01. May 2019 · 21:37 UTC

Yo, i cannot rate your game since i don't have a windows desktop machine, but hell. My game is named Slime, music and portals.
Please let me have a linux build of yours! @steffo
:smiley_cat:

🎤 Steffo

01. May 2019 · 23:09 UTC

@vinegarlove macOS and Linux (x64) builds were added! Enjoy :)

(Also, nice Aigis you've got there!)

VinegarLove

01. May 2019 · 23:24 UTC

Thanks for the build!
The switching mechanics is kinda awkward and i'm not sure about the sound. Don't know if it's too creative or done in 30 seconds :D (like my sprites and programming in the last hour of ludumdare :D).

I think the gameplay was fine overall. Keep up the good work :). Coesive and creative pixel art.

Evan M

02. May 2019 · 23:00 UTC

Great game the audio could use some work tho

Meibo

04. May 2019 · 11:11 UTC

That background music was sick! I played like 7 floors before realizing it was endless, i'm not sure of what I was hoping for (maybe the demon ?) though !

The control scheme is really strange as @killedbyapixel said and after a few floors I found out that running through the dungeons and just ignoring enemies is a winning strategy. I wanted a refound for my sword but the shopkeeper did not agree...

Overall pretty cool game and I enjoyed playing it (can't say that for all jam game !). Good job everyone :D

Monogatari

04. May 2019 · 11:32 UTC

The music is absolutely awesome ! Thanks for making it so much fun :) . Btw i don't like the controls of the game, hitting escape to move is really rude.