Bump and Blades - JamGame

https://testingjunk.net/scoreboard/view/277a3a15-b87f-4c38-857d-5ae453cc77ec

December 2024 libGDX 7 Day Game Jam Entry

Theme: Rougelike

Dev Notes:

*Small Update, Fixed bug, Added warning message when bumps get disabled. Added in the Scoreboard Above (Scores earned on Easy Mode Cannot be submitted).

Having never used box2D in a jam game before. I attempted a simple pinball game. I was hoping to add some actual rougelike elements to it but sadly. Most of it was scrapped for time.  As it is now. You can increase your balls damage and I guess, Um, if you die... you lose and have to start all over again. That's rougelike enough right? Right!?

Gameplay:

Basic pinball setup with some extra rules and a few odd physics bugs.

Start with 3 Balls
Every 1000 pts gets you an extra ball.
There's an Easy Mode selector which puts bumpers on the drains but Scores can not be submitted when playing on easy mode.

There will also be enemies spawning along the top, defeating them gives points.

Hitting the Bumper barrels scores you 10 points each.
There is a Skeleton Guarding a cave off to the side. (Originally this was supposed to be a separate dungeon room, but that didn't happen). Killing the skeleton and getting into the cave will award some points as well as increase the damage your ball deals to enemies. +1 at a time. After a few seconds the ball will spawn back at camp. To launch again.

Lighting up 3 torches will spark a summoning fire around the center. Light all 6 summoning fires to summon the boss.

Scrapped all plans for multi-ball, chest drops. Etc.. I ran out of time.

Default controls: (All keys can be re-assigned form main menu)

Left and Right Flippers:  A / D keys 

Ball Launch: Hold the SPACE key to charge, let go to launch your ball.

Tilting/Bump: Use the LEFT or RIGHT arrow keys to perform a very small bump in that direction

LIIMIT of 3 bumps within half a second. Then disabled for 3 seconds if you break that threshold.

Assets Used:

Tiles: https://electriclemon.itch.io/lonesome-forest-retro-tileset-1

Background Music: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/downloads-c/8-bit-music/6

Most other sounds found from freesounds.org or some other free music packs somewhere.