About

This is a game for GMTK game jam July 2023. The theme is Reversed Roles. Here you are a little robot trying to attack a Tower Defense (which is a famous game genre where you normally build the towers)!

How to play

The towers try to shoot you and your goal is to reach the exit. The guns of the towsers are the red/orange stars and should NOT be collected. Instead, try to collect purple diamonds with white light - this can give you vital power-ups!

Controls:

  • WASD/arrow keys: Move the robot.
  • Space: Jump. If you have collected the jet pack, you use it by pressing and holding space while in the air.
  • Left shift: If you have collected the parachute, hold left shift to use.
  • E/right shift: If you have collected BulletTime you use it with E/right shift.

Hints:

  • It's all about catching the power-ups. Look on the first floor of towers with stairs leading up to them. There are three power-ups in total.

Slow performance?

  • This game runs with a good framerate in the browser on my developing computer. But it may be too demanding for others. Please, tell me if you get too low framerate. In that case I could upload a version without all particle effecst (outside of the game jam), which I think may be one of the more taxing parts.

Known bugs:

  • Crash: Sometimes the game seems to crash completely and the screen is just frozen but the music continues. It happens to me every 10:th run or so when running in browser. If it happens very often for you, please tell me!
  • Movement on ground: For some reason the character controller sometimes won't move as intended on the ground, especially going backwards. Very annoying! I would have fixed it, but ran out of time. Sorry!
  • Stuck in bullet time: If you die in bullet time, the game may get stuck in bullet time until next time you activate this ability. No abusing, ok!? ;) If this happens and you don't want to "cheat", just activate bullet time.

Credits:

I worked solo on this project, but I did use tons of assets! Some, I have gathered over the years and some I downloaded specifically for this project. I may have missed some below:

Favourites (no affiliation or sponsoring, just my favourites)

  • OdinInspector - This makes it so much easier to add some custom stuff like buttons, fold-out groups in the inspector for your scripts. The inspector is also upgraded so some objects are shown in a better way. I use it all the time. It has much more advanced features too, which I use more rarely.
  • Editor Console Pro - I just like how this console displays logs and erros, including the stack trace. You can also filter and customize it.
  • Monitor Components (Free!) - This has saved me so many times when debugging. It can draw a real-time graph over transforms, properties of your scripts etc.

And then, in no particular order:

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