Animus

Created by Veshch and Ranqor

Made in one week for the Design Den Game Jam

Controls

Mouse: Aim

Left-Mouse Button: Fire

WASD: Movement

Left Shift: Dash

Q/E: Deposit/Withdraw Souls

R: OVERDRIVE mode

ESC: Pause

Gameplay Overview

You’re the final line of defense to power the collector of souls. Fill your collector and see how long you can last against endless hordes of enemies. 

Game Jam Design Choices:

We took our definition of Overdrive from two separate sources: 

- a state of great or excessive activity 

- drive or work to exhaustion

We wanted a high activity game so we went with an action platform wave-defense game. As the game goes on, more and more enemies will spawn per wave, and push the player to their limits. Players will be able to make it through the first few waves with ease, but will find themselves needing to go into OVERDRIVE mode more and more as the game goes on. 

Modifiers Used

Two Colors - The use of two colors led to a tricky experience with visual design. We went through and carefully chose what visual information was communicated to the user, and cut anything that wasn’t necessary for gameplay. 

Resource Limit - The resource limit in this game is simple: Souls. Monsters will drop souls on death, and the player can either pick them up to put into the collector to grow stronger, or they can use them to shield themselves from incoming damage. Some monsters will eat souls, and some will drop more than others. Souls are also consumed during OVERDRIVE mode at a varying rate.

Third Party Credits 

Environment & Player - https://hyell.itch.io/1bit-dungeon  

Free Smoke Fx Pixel 2 - https://bdragon1727.itch.io/free-smoke-fx-pixel-2  

m5x7 (Font) - https://managore.itch.io/m5x7  

Pixel Keys - https://joshuajennerdev.itch.io/pixel-keys-x16 

Music & SFX - GameDevMarket