Rootbound Rampage by UnidayStudio

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made by UnidayStudio for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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Welcome to the Garden of Madness!

Rootbound Rampage is a Roguelite game that you control a growing up plant and the enemies are the farmers trying to harvest you.


Want to know more?

In this game, you control a small plant that is trying to grow and survive in a field full of danger. Your main enemies are the farmers who are trying to harvest you and other plants for their crops.

To defend yourself against the farmers, you can use various abilities that are unlocked as you grow. For example, you may start out with a simple vine attack, but as you grow bigger you might unlock more powerful abilities such as a root strike or a seed blast.

The levels in this game are procedurally generated, so each run will be different and offer new challenges and opportunities to grow. As you progress through the game, you will encounter more powerful farmers and other dangers that will test your skills and resourcefulness.

If you are defeated, you will have to start over from the beginning, but you will also have the opportunity to unlock new Skills that can help you in future runs. Can you survive long enough to become a fully-grown plant and defeat the farmers once and for all?

Screenshots:

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How to Play it:

Rootbound Rampage is a Roguelite with Permadeath and persistent skills.Meaning that if you die, it's over and you'll have to start again, but the skills you unlocked will be taken into account in the next run.

  • Use W,A,S,D to control the character. You can also do this with the Right Mouse Button.
  • To attack or use a skill, hold the left mouse button and interact with the skill menu.

Survive the maximum amount of levels you can without getting Harvested by the Farmers.

Have fun!

Ratings

Overall 303th 3.625⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 516th 3.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 338th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 513th 3.525⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 217th 4.025⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 376th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 614th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 251967
09. Jan 2023 · 20:00 UTC
Great game!
JeffSobel
09. Jan 2023 · 20:15 UTC
Fun game. Plays well and clearly has some polish, especially for an LD game. The graphics are especially impressive!

The gameplay itself is a little bit slow-paced for my taste, but I appreciate the work that went into balancing the animation speeds against each other. With some timing and skill it's easy to attack the enemies without being hit, but it's not trivial.

I also like the implementation of the action selection wheel on mouse0 down. Seems like that would be really fun with more options on it. :)
JoshKirby
09. Jan 2023 · 20:54 UTC
This is actually a really good attempt. The art is nice and stylised and you can clearly tell that this project was made with passion and skill. The music is nice and dramatic, the skill are pretty interesting too. The gameplay is pretty slow paced for a roguelite, and the AI of the farmers is pretty janky at times. Obviously, you've only had 72 hours to create it so its understandable. The levels have a pretty big lack of variety in my opinion, and it takes a long time to progress after the Root Wall skill. The farmer's swing attack also barely hits me, maybe increase its hitbox size.

Overall, a good attempt, and can easily see this becoming a full game, should you guys decide to pursue it.

GG
Camden Obertop
10. Jan 2023 · 04:38 UTC
Very neat game, I like playing as an angry plant. I really like the atmosphere of this game and how the main objective is kind of a twist on the theme, as you are avoiding being harvested!
MadreDeDios
10. Jan 2023 · 14:45 UTC
I like the graphics! It looks really good.
PSV Games Studio
10. Jan 2023 · 15:26 UTC
This game looks really cool! The graphics are pretty nice. Too bad I couldn't run it on my pc, it must be some driver that is out of date.
katamary
11. Jan 2023 · 18:48 UTC
Nice work! Very polished game.
In my opinion it would be better if the player had more visibility around avatar.
Riodeluz
11. Jan 2023 · 21:52 UTC
Nice 3d model!
Attacks are a bit strange, but I like the way we can dodge the farmer's attack
Magnanix
15. Jan 2023 · 04:35 UTC
This is beautiful, and using Blender Game Engine? Nice. The attacking felt a bit odd, feels like it had mobile/touch screen thought behind it? :).

Either way, nice entry!
Xandruher
15. Jan 2023 · 22:13 UTC
The graphics are really cool. I also enjoy if your not playing as character and instead something different like here as a plant! Well done.
vivyhasadream
19. Jan 2023 · 15:44 UTC
This game has everything you need. It's put together really well and it's amazing that it was made in just 72 hours. Well take on the theme. Good job! :smiley:
Sn4pi
20. Jan 2023 · 00:41 UTC
I like the overall idea of the game and how it fits the theme. To me it felt a bit too easy since I haven't died once. It's a really cool mechanic that you can also destroy the environment which gives the player some flexibility when getting to the next enemy!