We’re working on a weird little game we’re calling Alphanauts – it’s a game where you try to protect a bunch of characters from black holes that appear at random. You select a character by pressing its letter key on the keyboard and you move him with the arrow keys. You can, although it’s a little fidgety, control more than one character by holding a bunch of letter keys at once!

When a character dies, he explodes and leaves a bunch of black holes behind. The crazy thing we’re doing for the You Are the Villain theme, is that if you press the letter of a character that died, say, “G”, a skeleton comes out of the black hole where “G” died and starts running after you, so your characters become the villains when they die. It started out as something a little closer to the theme, but this is what we ended up with!

Right now, we’re working on polish and tutorials, hopefully the game will make sense to players!

This is being made by Dom2D, Technobeanie and Seventy-Sevian!

Tags: alphanauts, jam, letters