A party game for up to 4 buddies
This game features:
- Local multiplayer for 4 players
- 3 game modes (PvE, PvP and PvPvE)
- Infinite random generated maps (3 different planes: Earth, Void and Ruins with 9 possible color schemes)
- Pixel perfect terrain destruction
- 2 power-ups (Med Kit and Weapon Box)
- 2 traps (Land Mine and Acid Barrel)
- 10 unique weapons
- melee combat
- techno squids
Controls
- Player1 and Player2 can share a keyboard
- Player1 - Player4 can use any SDL compatible gamepad / controller with at least 6 buttons
- Move horizontally with Left and Right
- Use your jetpack with O
- Aim in 8 directions, shoot with X
- If the end of your weapon is inside a wall, X performs a wall-punch
- If you, or the end of your weapon is touching another object, X performs a melee attack
Objects
Med Kit
Every soldier has 10 HP by default. You can only pick up a Med Kit when your HP is below 10. Picking up a Med Kit will restore your HP to 10.
Weapon Box
You get a Pistol by default. Picking up a Weapon Box will change your weapon to a random weapon which is not a Pistol, and not the one you are currently carrying.
Land mine
Stepping on a Land Mine will activate it
Acid Barrel
Watch out for Acid Barrels!
Techno Squid (Weapon: Lazer Melee: Cyber Tentacles)
Vicious machine spirit risen from the radioactive ruins of civilization, hunting for the remains of life to destroy
Main Menu
- Players can join at any stage of the game, by pressing either O or X
- After each battle, all players are disconnected, and needs to re-connect for the next battle
- Once connected, navigate in the menu with Up and Down
- Select menu options with Left and Right
- Submit the menu with O or X
Mode controls the game mode:
- War is the PvE mode - there is no friendly fire
- Arena is the PvP mode - there are no techno squids
- Chaos is the PvPvE mode - everyone is for themselves, and soldier kills scores you 2 points
Time sets the length of the battle in minutes
Boxes controls the amount of Med Kits and Weapon Boxes spawned
Traps controls the amount of Land Mines and Acid Barrels spawned
Bots controls the strength of the invading machine forces
Enter the Wastelands will open the Map Menu
Map Menu
- Pressing O or X on any menu option will generate a new map with the current settings
- Density controls the air/wall ratio
- Shape controls how open the map is
- Fabric controls the strength of the map, each plane has 3 color schemes
- Terraform will just generate a new map
- Enter the Battle will generate a new map if there is none, and start the game
- Back to Base will bring us back to the Main Menu
In Game
- Race against time to collect as much points as possible
- Killing a soldier or a techno squid will score you one point
- In War mode you cannot kill other soldiers
- In Arena mode there are no techno squids
- In Chaos mode a soldier kill scores you 2 points
- If a techno squid, a Land Mine or an Acid Barrel kills you, you lose one point
- You also lose one point if you kill yourself
- If you die, you respawn in three seconds
Arsenal
Weapon Damage Burst Magazine Fire-rate Reload-time Pistol 2.8 - 3.2 1 8 2.72 1.5 Knife 6 - 9 1 1 1.3 0.75 Bolter 0.9 - 1.1 1 35 10 2 Shotgun 0.9 - 1.3 5 5 2 1.83 Lazerifle 6 - 7 1 4 2.4 1.83 Rocketeer 7 - 8 1 1 0.5 2 Flamer 0.5 - 0.8 3 50 6 1.6 Granadeer 4 - 6 1 5 1 2 Orber 2 - 3 1 1 1 1 Molter 2.5 - 3 3 3 2 1.25 |
- Knife can be thrown and stick to the ground, your melee attacks deals 3X damage, when you are carrying a knife
- Rockets will lock on the first available target in sight
- Flames has a chance to burn trough terrain
- Grenades are bouncing off the terrain
- Orber blobs are going trough terrain, dealing additional area damage
- Molter blobs are sticking to the terrain, and detonate over time
Credits
First of all I would like to thank zep for creating PICO-8!
I would also like to thank Gruber Jam for composing the music Space Lizards and making it royalty free! Although this is a really catchy chip-tune, it can get repetitive over some time. You can turn off the music separately from the sound, in the PICO-8 pop-up menu.
I would like to thank the PICO-8 community (here, on YouTube, on Reddit, on Discord) for providing learning-materials, tutorials, snippets, tips and tricks.
the game is also available on itch.io
A great shooter and it's fun to play even just against the AI. Now I've got the game for the next Monday episode.
Have a star and a heart :3
P.S.
I think it would make sense to add your Itch.io page link to your Lexaloffle profile.
Oh, yeah and a little idea for an update - when you play solo against the AI it would be great to have the collective AI score displayed at the end of the match.
Thanks for the feedback, it means a lot to me!
I have really run out of tokens at the end of the project (this shows on the score table), I will consider your advice, though.
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