Shade (StealthNinja)

Submission to Shacknews Jam 2019
Theme: "Be Relatively Evil"

Shade is a 2D metroidvania/platformer inspired by Castlevania and Dark Souls. Prototype includes a short level with 6 rooms and a mini-boss (sends you back to the title screen when beat, no time for a cutscene unfortunately). Originally planned to be longer, but shortened to fit the time constraints of the game jam - would love to continue expanding and improving the game following the conclusion of the game jam.

How To Play:
Reach the last room of the castle and defeat the Hellbeast to win.

• Reflect projectiles by attacking when the projectile is directly ahead of you.
• Meat can be obtained and consumed to restore health by pausing and viewing your inventory and selecting "Use."
• Dash to dodge attacks, close distances and traverse long gaps.
• Gain XP by defeating enemies. Your stats increase with every level up.
• Read more about Monsters and how many you've defeated in the Bestiary in the pause menu.

Controls:
Keyboard:

• [WASD] or [Arrow Keys] - Move
• [SPACE] - Jump
• [Hold SPACE] - Jump Higher
• [Q] - Dash
• [F] - Attack
• (Menus) [ESC] - Pause
• (Menus) [SPACE] or [E] or [ENTER] - Select
• (Menus) [B] - Back

Controller:

• Left Joystick - Move
• [A] - Jump
• [Hold A] - Jump Higher
• [LB] or [RB] - Dash
• [X] - Attack
• (Menus) [ESC] - Pause (Keyboard Needed)
• (Menus) [SPACE] or [E] or [ENTER] - Select (Keyboard Needed)
• (Menus) [B] - Back (Keyboard Needed)

Credits:

• Programming - StealthNinja
• All credits for art and audio assets are included in the text file "credits.txt"