Around the Waterfall by incobalt
This is a largely unfinished beginning to something that I ended up being too tired to keep working on before the deadline. In the game, you play as a resilient little slime who has just recovered from a terrible fall, when a group of humans come into your village near the waterfall and slaughters everyone but you. Your fate, it seems, is to take orders and to become their personal fighter, but perhaps you have other (non implemented) plans. The game still has a number of bugs, and the only way to get to the credits screen is to let yourself be killed. But if you do get to the credits screen you can then type the last character on the title screen to get a bit of a peek at the layers of the game as planned (you'll hear a sound if you got it).
Controls for the game are generally some form of keyboard movement controls (arrows, wasd, ijkl, and qzsd are in there), and you have an attack on left or right mouse click (there's also the spacebar, but it works really differently from clicking). Escape will always quit the game.
Ratings
| Coolness |
30% |
1942 |
| Overall |
3.25 |
354 |
| Fun |
3.00 |
472 |
| Graphics |
2.80 |
617 |
| Humor |
3.27 |
223 |
| Innovation |
3.13 |
389 |
| Mood |
3.07 |
416 |
| Theme |
3.00 |
686 |
Feedback
Other than that I think one thing that would help future games is to make it more obvious what is going on. I wasn't quite sure what was happening when just reading it and I didn't know what to do.
With a bit more time and work this could turn into a nice game though.
Overall, I see the direction you were headed in, and enjoyed conversing with the slimes!
Not to spoil what happens next but I did start fighting with the other slimes and eventually died (probably by bumping into the guarding human too many times). I'm sure there's more to discover but after 2 deaths I gotta move on and review more games, good work!
Randomized colors for characters is also a really nice thing too! :)
It's just a beginning, but you have a pretty much defined genre and a backstory to work on.
Cheers! :)