Gameplay Footage on YT

Controls

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KeyboardController
MoveDirectional Keys
Directional Buttons
JumpSpacebarCross, A
ShootZSquare, X
Throw Ladder
X
Triangle, Y
Throw Ladder Up
Up + Throw Ladder

How to Play

Shoot monsters and collect loot. Loot scores you points which unlocks the next wave. Ladders are somewhat scarce so try to plan your movements carefully. Monsters can also drop green boxes that contain ladders.

General Thoughts

This took a lot longer than I expected to get done despite the initial idea being fairly simple. A seemingly simple mechanic such as ladders took me quite some testing and tweaking to get right. There were also a ton of other small things that added up like getting the player animations and states/behaviors to transition properly, testing the balance of loot spawns and drops, fixing a crash with no debug message (I suspect it had something to do with incorrect timing of when to run a loop that instanced objects).

But all in all, they were pretty valuable learning experiences which I hope to take in to the next project.

Credits

Sound

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