Slime Fields: Goomastered

[This is the continuing project that originally began as an entry to the GM48 competition in Jan 2020. You can find the itch.io page for that early prototype version of the game here!]

Summary:

In a land of cute, bouncy slimes, what would you do to defend your homeland? Collect and command your forces while you can!

Gameplay:

Hatch and command slimebabies to defend your base from slimemeanies! Click and drag slimes to tell them to go where you'd like. As you defeat more meanies, more slimes will grow to be at your disposal!

Aim for the highest score and compete against your friends with online leaderboards and the ability to create and share custom maps (that are ranked online, too)!

Controls:

• Move Camera - WASD, Arrows, or Right Mouse Button
• Zoom Camera - Mouse Scrollwheel, or Page Up/Down
• Box Select Slimes - Click and Drag on Ground
• Command Slime - Click and Drag on Slime
• Ping Slimes - Click on Ground
• Skip Tutorial - Escape

Notable Features:

• Procedural Challenges so it stays fresh to replay over and over again.
• Several Built-In Maps tuned for unique experiences.
• Custom Map importer so you can customize or create entirely new maps via a simple .png to play on or share a collection with your friends
• 9 Song Original Soundtrack by:
  • Nynja (Space Dungeon / Suh Burb)
  • Dot Minus (Battle Chef Brigade and Sausage Sports Fest)
• (New!) Main Menu that integrates all your levels and shows scores  [screenshot]
• (New!) Online Highscores for all levels, even ones you create and share, yourself!

Other Fun Features:

• (New!) Several types of enemies [screenshot]
• (New!) Multi-colored slimes with generated names [screenshot]
• (New!) Slime consignment around bases to form a solid defense [video]
• (New!) Slime physicality [video]

Watch it be made:

• I streamed ALL 48 hours of its development without stopping, most of which with the team on a call. If you want to watch these crazy hijinks and occasional sleep deprivation consequences, you can enjoy them all on my Twitch Channel, or click directly to the 48 hour VOD here. [Temporarily down, will be back soon!]

The Team:

Programming:

• Chris Bradel (Chrscool8)

Art:

• Kyle_wa (Nynja)

Music:

• Kyle_wa (Nynja)
• Tom Dunkin (Dot Minus)

Special Thanks:

• Ragnarok9x
• Matt M.
• Christian Cortez

Tips/Heads Up:

• Slimes inside the base circle get an extra hit point
• Huuuuge custom maps may take a couple seconds to load on some hardware but should be self optimized after that
• Have fun! Thank you for playing! :)