Scythe of Souls (LD52)

Background

This game was made by me and mezzbeans (my wife) over the weekend with use of some free music / sound effects. It's a total of about 9 hours of actual work over the 3 days. This was my first game jam and first game made using godot. I did this to finally make a game, and to learn a bit more about Godot's workflow, and godot 4 in general. 

This project was made with Godot 4 Beta 10

Things I liked about this project

- Double dash feels super nice, I would love to add more less-simple abilities like this.

- I learned a lot about making a game in a short amount of time, and about Godot 4

Things I wish I had time for the project

- Making the upgrades more modular, the idea was to make this a bit like upgrades in hades but time didn't allow for that.

- More time to do up / down movement. Controls are probably what I like least about what I made.

- Time to fix enemies spawning outside of the map, and launching off when outside the navigation area.

Things I would have done different next time

- Not spend time on a not-needed save system (I did this for personal learning though which has it's merit, but for game jam purposes it wasn't needed)

- Put more time into sound effects / music / particles. Lack of feedback was another issue with the game.

- Spend more time of the game jam to work on it, 9 hours total was definitely not enough time to come out with something super polished.

Controls

• WASD
• Space to attack & dash
• Click the music icon to toggle music
• Tab - Buys an upgrade with your souls
• Num 1 - Save Game
• Num 9 - Reset Game

Upgrades

• 15 Souls - Speed
• 25 Souls - Health
• 50 Souls - Damage
• 100 Souls - Scythe radius
• 125 Souls - Damage (1 hit spectres)
• 150 Souls - Regeneration - upgrades to 5 health instead of 2
• 250 Souls - Double Dash - Get two charges for dashing

Credits

• Heroic Demise Soundtrack - matthewpablo - https://opengameart.org/content/heroic-demise-updated-version
• Melee Sound - remaxim - https://opengameart.org/content/3-melee-sounds
• Spectre Enemy - 7SoulDesign - http://7soul1.deviantart.com/
• Programming - xaviarrob123
• Art - mezzbeans