Path of the Ninja

Path Of The Ninja

A game made in 3 days for Ludum Dare 35. (Theme: Shapeshift)

A constantly changing ninja is on his way to become the very best. Fight to get the highscore!

Downloads can be found below, but please, read the instructions/controls, as there are no instructions ingame!

Controls:

• You can move around with WASD
• You use moves with each of the buttons in the mouse (Check characters below for more info)
• You can exit the game with Escape

Characters:Ninja

• You start with this character
• Weak but fast
• Moves:
  • Left:
    Throws a knife moving towards the mouse
  • Right:
    Powers up the next knife launch (damage is multiplied by 3)
  • Middle:
    Increases shooting speed to ~2 knives a second for a moment

Mage:

• It's almost in the same level than the ninja
• Very slow but huge damage
• Moves:
  • Left:
    Throws a fireball
  • Right:
    Increases speed for a moment, useful to evade an attack
  • Middle:
    Throws 3/4 fireballs in random directions. Use when a lot of enemies are around you

Engineer:

• It's a powerful class, but must be used wisely
• Medium speed, medium/big damage
• Moves:
  • Left:
    Short range meele attack with decent damage.
  • Right:
    Medium range meele attack with fairly good damage. Kills projectiles
  • Middle:
    Places a turret. It will shoot at enemies constantly, deals low damage per hit,
    but will keep shooting for a long time

Mechanics:

In the game, instead of simply leveling up or switching characters, you become whoever you kill (If he is a bigger level than you). If you get killed though, two things may happen:

• You become the enemy who killed you if he is underlevel
• You die if the enemy is overlevel or the same level

Known Issues:

• The game is overall, poorly balanced
• Sometimes enemies may stop spawning (Rare, may not even happen anymore)
• The engineer AI is useless in 1v1 combat

Thank you for playing! :)

The source comes with all art assets. The source is under the MIT license.

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