WASDWASDWASDWASD by Beard or Die
A short game made (primarily) for the One Minute Jam #6 and (secondarily) for Ludum Dare 50 (Extra). Survive a minute by trading your score (retained upon death) for new abilities/upgrades. Inspired by the fantastic mobile game "Magic Survival" Controls: WASD and Mouse

| HTML5 | https://beardordie.itch.io/wasdwasdwasdwasd |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/wasdwasdwasdwasd |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
I think it need some balancing, because some things are not understandable like, I thought that blues orbs are money, but I get it that it's life with my last upgrade before finish, because before that, I was one shot by everything... Also, mobs evolves, but I think it's overkill that ALL theirs stats evolve, maybe some have to be low (like, if an ennemy is speedy and deal high damages it has low health etc) but I understand that is to avoid the player to just flees until the end of countdown.
But I think you can easily improve it ! (and, I stay till the end, soooo, that's a good game ! ;) )
Art-wise, I am not a fan of the color scheme you have--mostly grey background, heavily saturated red enemies, a desaturated orange player character.
Feels like a solid base that needs some more love and you have yourself something good.
- The start of the game is really slow. In general making sure the player can get upgrades on their first couple runs and then making it take a couple runs for later upgrades works pretty well, but this game has the opposite going. Once I started getting to the larger creatures I was rolling in money, but the initial upgrades felt like a slog.
- The audio is pretty grating
- The blue orbs seemed basically not worth using. I beat the game with only one health upgrade, and by the time I got hit I was basically about to die, so topping up on health didn't really help me. I spent the first few runs trying to get them before realizing they didn't help me at all that early on, and then basically ignored them the rest of the game.
By the way, I think I died and finished the game at the same time:
