Nurse'n'Slash

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:47:10 UTC

Nurse'n'Slash

by Nurses

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Nurse'n'Slash

In a world, where exploding Nurses try to kill their patients...

What to do?
Patient Zero tries to resist against the evil exploding Nurses, so he arms himself and starts to fight them.

Why?

This game is the product of the Game Jam we had in the School of Games in Cologne, Germany.

The topic was to create an one screen Pico-8 game, the specific theme of the game was randomly chosen.

WIP History:

Day 1:

Prototyping;

What should we do? Any Ideas?
Both:"Dafuq is that topic?!"
"...Lofi Top-down Arena Shooter with exploding nurses"
Programmer:"What about an Arena Shooter with exploding nurses?"
Artist:"Good idea"
Artist:" U know how to code?"
Programmer:" Nah... lil bit"
Artist:" Nice, lets do much animation, much powerups, much enemies, much wow!"
Programmer:" FUCK YEAH GREAT IDEA!!!!"

What did we accomplish?

Player Movement
Shooting
Sprites
-+ Animations

Day 2:

Programmer:"Fuck dude, it's so difficult code"
Artist:"NP dude, I count on you."

What did we accomplish?

Enemies+Projectile Collision - "WE CAN KILL THEM YEAAAAAH"
Much code learning
Much desperation
More Sprites
More Animation

Day 3:
Programmer:"Ok dude, this will be f#%! difficult to do"
Artist:" Np dude I trust you"
Businessdude:"HEY GUYS WHAT ABOUT SOME SCREEEEENSHOTS?!? TELL ME ABOUT IT, I NEED TO KNOWWWW"

What did we accomplish?

Programmer:" Oh hey I kinda understand coding now, first time having some kind of "floooow""
Polishing what we did before with more and better codes
"Oh hey tomorrow the game has to be done, hf"

Night 1:
Programmer:"Oh hey much fun, much tired"

What did we accomplish?

More and better collision
Gamestates
Enemy Spawns
Preparation for the end sprint

Day 4:
Programmer:" I'm tired."
Artist:" Hey dude listen to the beat"

What did we accomplish?

POWERUPS
SCREENSHAKES
EXPLOSIONS
GREAT SOUNDS AND MUSIC "U hear dat? It's a hospital"
TITLE SCREEN, END SCREEN

"Haha this game is actually ok"

Much presentation, much feedback, much applause

21:40: *Writing the WIP we had to do before finishing the game"

Hope you liked it!
We would enjoy to hear your feedback!

Stay healthy, elseif health <= not good then add_nurses() end
" OH GREAT ANOTHER RUNTIME ERROR! ATLEAST ITS NOT A SYNTAX ERROR"

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