Moonstone & Topaz in: Ho-meow-lone

Topaz and Moonstone have been captured by the RoboCulkins! Escape their clutches!

This is a rogue-lite-lite-lite for Secret Santa Jam 2021. I tried my best to work in the preferences of the giftee as well as the titular cats!

Good stuff:

• It's a thing you can play. That is better than I usually do with jams so I'm happy.
• The giftee owns the titular cats, and I thought for a bit on how a player could control two avatars. I ended up with the spinning cats!
• I enjoyed animating the RoboCulkins a lot. I used to do really small animations when I was a kid, but working as a software engineer doesn't lend itself to many chances to play around with animation.
• I like the art style. Wait, hear me out! I think mixing stuff together collage-style is really fun. Plus, as a child of the flash age, when games were crude and oftentimes ugly, it just felt right.
• This was my first time recording my own sound effects for a game!
• Writing the room generation algorithm took a while. I was on day 2 of working all day and my brain was fried. Once I got the random walk working though I was psyched!

Bad stuff:

• There's no boss. I wanted a boss, but I ran out of time.
• The DVD-logo-esque movement of the RoboCulkins came from several hours of trying to spin my own pathfinding. I had wanted to do something that used colliders to inform the enemy where to go. Obviously, I gave up!
• Lack of variety in general. I wanted deeper rogue-y stuff: more enemy types, more obstacle types, pickups.
• The music is pretty awful. I didn't even plug my MIDI controller in because I was so down to the wire. I just put some beep and boops together in 5 minutes and called it good enough.
• Default unity UI stuff......

Not my stuff, licensed via Creative Commons:

• padlock
• macauley culkin, progenitor of the RoboCulkins