Kid 4 $29.99

Kid 4 $29.99 (shortened to K42) is a small game made in GZDoom for the 2020 7 Day FPS jam.

On an external level, Kid 4 $29.99 is a vaporwave/synthwave-style run-and-gun shooter where you play as a young boy taking shelter in a mall. But inside the mall, things turn in a slightly different direction...

On an internal level, K42 is designed as one part a playable game, one part a personal test to see if my artistic abilities have advanced enough to develop something (they have!), one part a metaphorical foray into personal matters, one part me wanting to make a shooty whiz-bang ka-pow run-and-gun fun-in-the-sun video game,and one part a mixing bowl to toss in a lot of half-baked ideas I've had over the years.

It's an experimental little game. But I had fun developing it. I hope you have fun playing it.

Features:
- A whole two levels, both of them wildly different in gameplay from each other!
- Two weapons, technically three if you count a unique alt-fire as a separate weapon!
- No infinite-ammo fallback weapon! Make every shot count, bucko.
- Original and custom art for everything!
- Extensive work put into sound effects!
- And also a whole bunch of BFXR to make the aforementioned customized sound effects look cheap!
- Pixels! A lot of them!

Installation:
Kid 4 $29.99 is a completely standalone project, but currently requires a copy of Doom2.wad to run. The implementation is a little bit finnicky due to deadline stuff, and will be refined to be standalone for later releases.

- Download GZDoom at https://zdoom.org/downloads
- Acquire Doom or get a copy of Freedoom 2 at https://freedoom.github.io/
- Extract the GZDoom files, Doom2.wad and Kid-4-$29.99.ipk3 in the same folder
- Open up GZDoom, select Kid-4-$29.99.ipk3 if prompted, and play!
- Configure options as needed! Alt-Fire and Use are required.