Soul Skirmish

Soul Skirmish is an asymmetric multiplayer top-down shooter. In it’s current stage, it has a fairly minimalist aesthetic.

One player at a time takes control of the crown. They then aim and rain fire on the remaining players using using the four weapon types: SHOT, BLAST, BEAM, and ZONE.

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The crowned player can also deploy and trigger bombs which also change depending on the weapon type.

The attacking player will move faster within a defensive players’ soul shield, but won't be able to initiate attacks. The defensive players will still have their work cut out for them though, only being able to take 3 hits.

Once the time limit is up however, the crowned player will be expelled, and a new player can rise up to take their place. The last one standing wins!

That’s it for now. This is an early prototype,  and it may or may not be improved upon in the future.  More abilities and game modes are planned for the future. 

Requires at least 1 controller. Keyboard control is possible but not recommended. 

Version Changes

v0.4

-First upload. See above for all features

v0.5

-Added color switching. You can now use the shoulder buttons to change the color of your projectiles. Each color has special effects (only one new color for now).

-Added Orange /blue color.  You can move through orange attacks and stay still in blue attacks. Each is more powerful, however, than a regular attack.