EctoTerrestrial - Flowjam Entry

Still pretty work in progress, art by sugarcyube

1-3 to switch Aliens, only the first purple one is fully done

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The characters look good, levels aren’t bad, these enemies look great. I shouldn’t complain about the controls as I play on Chromebook, but clicking the button to attack feels a bit of a pain

Left click is for your regular attack, it’s not on the screen because it’s not an ability

Shift for the default alien kind of reminds me of the Bandit from ror2 which is really cool

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Oh. I’ve just been using a special attack this whole time.

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I’ll make sure to make it more obvious when the game is complete

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Third Alien is now done, gonna break down all the abilities here

Basic Attack is Left-click
Basic Ability is Right-click
Utility Ability is Shift
Special Ability is R

  • Purple Alien
    – Basic Attack = Quick short range projectile that does low damage
    – Basic Ability = Shoot a wave in front of you that stuns enemies and charges your Special Ability for each enemy hit
    – Utility Ability = Create a clone that blocks enemy attacks and draws their attention, also gain a burst of move speed and invisibility
    – Special Ability = Once you have 3 charges from your Basic Ability, you can press R while your mouse is over a stunned enemies to posses them. Possessed enemies will take damage instead of you and you’ll damage the enemy further when you leave the possession

  • Green Alien
    – Basic Attack = Lunge towards your mouse and bite violently. This can only be used once in the air and you must wall jump or land in order to use it again. Has invulnerability frames
    – Basic Ability = Fire an arcing glob of acid, requires 1 charge from your Utility Ability
    – Utility Ability = Teleport to a nearby low health enemies and deal 99 damage, giving you a charge for your Utility and Special Abilities and healing you.
    – Special Ability = Float for a few seconds while charging up, enemy projectiles are absorbed. Recast to fire a large explosion at your cursor location. Requires 3 charges from your Utility Ability

  • Orange Alien
    – Basic Attack = Throw a spike ball that sticks to walls, does more damage on the initial hit on a enemy, then does periodic damage if enemies stay near it. Applies stacks
    – Basic Ability = Recall all spike ■■■■■ that have landed, dealing damage to enemies on their way to you
    – Utility Ability = Emit a spiky explosion that damages enemies and applies stacks. Occurs 4 times in a row and blocks enemy projectiles
    – Special Ability = Deal damage to all enemies with stacks equal to the amount of stacks plus a little more, also causing them to explode with the same effect as your Utility.

You can pick a character with 1 2 & 3 but you need to reload to switch now

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Had to scrap 2 enemies, and a whole bunch of other stuff that would’ve made it more consice but it’s completely playable with a leaderboard for the fastest time, good luck and thanks for playing if you do

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True art will never be explained

What does that even mean?

Exactly