Hi everyone we're in for our first Ludum Dare! Can't wait to share our progress, have fun everyone!

This has been an infinite day, but.. All the core mechanics are working! We have some awesome art and animation and we still have 2 days to go!

Basically the game is an infinite runner about a samurai trying to Harakiri himself. We control which action the character will perform based on which card we'll use. Every card has limited uses and we can pickup them along the path. Our main goal is to avoid any obstacle for prolonging his life as much as possible. When the game will be over our samurai will share with us some of his ancient wisdom.

We have the character with the 3 main animations (btw my favorite is the run)

This is the concept for the background (We will add some parallax on the various elements). The one that we choose is the sunset. We will add some other levels if there is time.

Tomorrow will be dedicate to balancing, enemy sprites and animations and parallax system. We still have to manage the writing and the music and sfx. We hope to have some time left for adding some cool particle fx.

Getting some sleep now. New updates tomorrow!

Japan, 17th century

Yamamoto Tsunemoto, an old samurai who retired to become a Buddhist monk, tells the principles of bushidō to his pupil Tsuramoto Tashiro.

One day, Tashiro's writings will be known to the world under the name of Hagakure. However, the story does not tell of the lazy fat ass known as Koshu Hikosen, Tashiro's secret pupil.

Considered the worst samurai of all time, one night Koshu got incredibly drunk and high and stole Tsunemoto's notes.

Completely misunderstood the meaning of bushidō, Koshu embarked on a mad rush to find any way to die without the commitment of having to fight and the heavy burden of Harakiri.

CONTROLS

Basically the game is an infinite runner about a samurai trying to Harakiri himself.

We control which action the character will perform based on which card we’ll use.

Every card has limited uses and we can pickup them along the path.

Our main goal is to avoid any obstacle for prolonging his life as much as possible.

When the game will be over our samurai will share with us some of his ancient wisdom.

Q to walk

W to run

E to jump

GAME PAGE

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/$182833

Here we go, both windows and html5 versions are alive!

We're very happy with the resluts.. But most of all, It's alive!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/harakirun

Hi everyone, as most of you are complimenting about the art style and the music, here is the soundcloud link to te OST.

https://soundcloud.com/lickingissoawesome/sets/harakiri-run/s-bOlpS40t0Nw

If you haven't tried it yet, here is the link to our entry. Every feedback is welcome!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/harakirun

Feel free to comment with you entry to share come feedback!