About this game

This game was inspired by a comic one of my kids had been drawing called "the death doom". This Jam has been about getting my kids more involved in game design from scratch and they've had a whole lot of fun bringing their ideas to life. For me it was a first time experimenting with Box2D. Ultimately though this was about us having fun working on something together.

Most of the assets for this game were either scanned or recorded by my kids over the weekend. (The remainder were made by myself and I edited some of their work to fit together better).

We built this starting with an emscripten/SDL2/Box2D "hello world" emscripten demo on Friday night and designed/implemented everything else after that as we went. Usual caveats about majorly hacky code, particuarly as the deadline was looming apply to this project.

Supported systems:

The controls don't work on mobiles, sorry although you can watch and shoot there's no way to move around.

I've only tested on Chrome on Windows, sorry. I expect it should work on most browsers though.

Full screen doesn't work too well sometimes.

Theme

There's lots of instability here. The monster is clearly emotionally unstable (otherwise why would it be a monster?) and t he rocks you have to stand on will hopefully feel unstable once it's done.

Due to the way motion is implemented currently in this game most of the characters are prone to falling over things. I would have worked towards changing that, but it seemed to fit the theme of unstable so I leaned into it instead.

Controls

W, A, D for hero motion. Mouse motion aims the bow and left click shoots it.

Hints

Some things aren't as obvious as they should be perhaps, so:

1. You can move between frames just by walking across.
2. Touch or shoot the death doom to get him to chase you ready for the battle.
3. You can jump surprisingly high when you're colliding with any object.
4. To win the death doom must knock the rocks about a bit - he can't die before that has happened.