Project: Celestial Ark

✩ Story ✩

Mille and her team aboard the starship ‘Celestial Ark’ have just 3 days to explore and save as many creatures as they can from a soon to be doomed planet. In accordance with galaxy law, any planet that does not have intelligent life forms may be colonized by any humans, including the group on the way, notorious for stripping all resources from a planet and moving on. ‘Project: Ark’ was started by a small group of scientists wanting to preserve the plant and animal life on these planets without civilizations.

✩ Characters ✩

Mille- Team leader of the group on her first mission with the project, Mille is in for a bit of a ‘trial by fire.’ Uses light and dark elemental skills. 

Vilde- Captain of the Celestial Ark who can’t sit still on the ship, so she joins the ground missions. Uses earth and water elemental skills. 

Saga- A clumsy biologist who prefers to be out in the field doing hands on work. Uses fire and electric elemental skills. 

Laila- Former military, who now lends her battle expertise to the project. Uses ice and wind elemental skills. 

✩ Gameplay ✩

A first person dungeon crawler with random battles! Each battle will give you the opportunity to catch an adorable creature using opposing elemental skills to wear them down. Once you’ve acquired enough capture points, you can pick up the creature to then bring back to your ship! Explore the 3 different biomes on the map to find all 24 creatures , take them to the safety of your ship and win the game. Be careful though! They may look cute, but these little beings can take you down. All characters dying will lead to a game over, and you'll need to restart! Winning battles will level up your characters to make later biomes easier to explore. 

✩ Controls ✩

• WASD/Arrow Keys to move
• 'E' to interact with the Portal to return to your ship to drop off critters and shop
• 'I' to access your inventory and use items - select item, click 'Use Item', then the character you would like to use it on

✩ About the Game ✩

Programming/Engine Work: Michael McEachern @Acrlixe

Art/UI: Mandi Lynn @ShyVisual

Music: Evgeny Bardyuzha

Made for Dungeon Crawler Jam 2023, with the theme of ‘Duality’! We applied the theme in a few ways, nature vs technology, elementals opposing each other…and a song reference if you look hard enough. ;) This game was completed in just one week, so please keep in mind there may be a few issues (due to too much caffeine, too little sleep and having to wrangle a 8 month old puppy). Hope you enjoy it and let us know what you think!  ♡ We’d love to revisit the game later and change/add things and suggestions are always welcome.