The Obelisk by wilsk

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made by wilsk for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

About

Build issues have been fixed in v1.1.3, available now on itch https://wilsk.itch.io/the-obelisk. Let me know if you come across any other issues

Three explorers travel through the jungle and find a mysterious stone obelisk. Suddenly the jungle comes alive, and creature pour out to attack the explorers. They are quickly overcome, but the obelisk is not done with them. It strengthens them and stands them once more in front of the horde.

How to play

You control three characters fighting a horde of jungle creatures. Use the arrow buttons on the right to move the characters between one of three lanes. Characters will auto attack. Purchase upgraded abilities and use them with Q, W, E, R, D and F. Try to outlast all the waves, or give up - I have no idea if its beatable :spy:

Notes

This game was made with Bevy (a new Rust game engine). I used Aseprite for the artwork and recorded the sounds in audacity. Its a windows only download, but in theory could be built for Linux/MacOS. There are some bugs but its more or less what I had in mind.

There are a few known issues I ran out of time to fix, but the game should be playable (if possibly unbalanced):

  • the source code is a bit of a mess!
  • ability cooldowns have gone AWOL
  • clicking "give up" sometimes crashes to desktop instead of going to the menu (eventually Bevy won't CTD for this particular issue).
  • player level ups don't seem to apply (not sure if a UI issue or if they're actually not applied)

Ratings

Given 1🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

Oliver Richmeier
05. Oct 2020 · 19:59 UTC
Game crashes on startup for me
Julius Vander Arend
05. Oct 2020 · 20:07 UTC
Sorry to say, but I couldn't get it to run. The console was stuck on loading the start scene 0 out of 33 assets loaded or something of that sort.
🎤 wilsk
06. Oct 2020 · 04:40 UTC
Hi @oliver-richmeier and @julius-vander-arend. I can't replicate these on my own setup but there have been a few reports about this. If you do get a chance to post some crash logs from the console that would be helpful. Thanks for trying the game out :sweat_smile:
🎤 wilsk
06. Oct 2020 · 04:46 UTC
Ah actually it looks like I may have some leads for this, will try to sort out a fix
Vleue
06. Oct 2020 · 08:24 UTC
Seemed a little hard before I used skills, my explorers were dead by wave 2.
After I saw that I can just spam skills it was easy...

Maybe have skills use mana, which currently stays at 0. Also after I bought all the skills I can't use my exp to buy a new level?
etrealjunior
07. Oct 2020 · 10:47 UTC
I liked your game my congratulations, I also did one if you want to know, and give me your feedback I am very grateful, this is the link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/resurrection
Chukwuebuka_racer
07. Oct 2020 · 23:50 UTC
Nice, buh i couldn't control the three men at a time
FelixMcFelix
12. Oct 2020 · 19:45 UTC
Difficult to control, but I figured it out on the second go. The graphics are nice!