Last Christmas - JamGame

December 2022 libGDX 7 Day Game Jam Entry

Theme: Dystopian Christmas

*update*

There was a bug with the final boss that annoyed me and made targets appear offscreen. I fixed the bug for the sake of posterity and wont be making anymore changes.

*Notes*

I went waaaaaay overboard with this one, spent more than half the jam week just  making a battle screen that looked nice and getting better with Scene2d and actions. Plus working with the awesome TextraTypist library for the cool font effects was worth the lack of initial gameplay. lol

*Post Jam Update*

As promised I managed to throw together a simple battle mechanic into the battle screen, so the game actually had a bit of a challenge instead of the original click enemy to kill.

Story:

Once again it's almost hear, Christmas crunch time. There is no rest, there is no escape. You've been worked to the bones for the past 36 years and you can't spend another minute putting together another crappy Disco Skeleton mini-fig for some human brat who doesn't even deserve it. You hear rumors about those who've attempted to escape the Factory. It isn't pretty, but neither is being a slave to the Beast in Red. That does it, no more! It's time to get out of this Holiday Hellscape and get your revenge. As Frosty as my witness. This will be the LAST CHRISTMAS!

Gameplay:

Default controls

Move with WASD

Interact with Space Key (You chat with certain elves, and enter battles with enemy's by going up to them and pressing the interact key.

When a battle starts. There are 2 battle states which happen automatically. Enemies will launch Coal towards you. Click on the coal to destroy it before it reaches you. Otherwise you will take damage.

When it is your turn to attack, various moving targets will appear over the enemies sprite. Click on as many as you can before the very short timer ends. You will usually have less than 2 seconds. So practice your mousin' skills

For each target you manage to click you will deal 5 damage. IF you manage to click ALL target before the time is up. That is a Critical Hit. And all the damage you have dealt will be doubled.

If you die, you will just respawn with full health at the map spawn point.

Assets Used:

Main Tileset: https://franuka.itch.io/rpg-snow-tileset

*a few crappy edits and tiles added by me

Battler Images: https://franuka.itch.io/rpg-christmas-battler-pack

*note: Battler Images were poorly edited and Animated by me

The Battle Backgrounds: were actually created by me.

The one exception being the snow background has elements taking from https://dusan-pavkovic-warlord.itch.io/snowybackground and the tileset I used.

Some song tracks from: https://void1gaming.itch.io/christmas-music-pack

And here https://timbeek.itch.io/dystopian

And here https://eric-the-funny-baron.itch.io/barons-music-pack

All other sounds and music found through: https://freesound.org/

or https://sidearm-studios.itch.io/ultimate-sound-fx-bundle