Castle Invaders

An Introduction.

This game is solo-developed by me, absenteepuddle, and it is the first game I have been able to sorta complete, or at least finish a version of. This game was made for the 72-hour-long game jam, Mini Jam 135: Deception, and it is the first game I have uploaded to a game jam.

What is the game about?

In Castle Invaders, you play as (you guessed it) a castle invader, or multiple, depending on how many times the invader gets caught. The goal is to get deep enough into the castle to obtain a prized diamond that is rightfully owned by the invaders. 

What kind of game is this?

Castle Invaders is a sort-of puzzle game as you need to figure out how to avoid many guards and delve deeper and deeper into a castle. It is also in some ways a rage game as you can get sent quite far back in the game and it can be very difficult and sometimes even impossible to avoid a guard seeing you if they turn fast enough at you. However, if you get more comfortable with the game and its mechanics, the game does have some speedrun potential.

What do you do in the game?

In the game, you have to get through areas in or around the castle by unlocking doors that lead to a next area. The main difficulty of the game is being able to unlock the door in each area without getting detected by any of the many guards in each area. However, you do have an ability that can help with this, you can throw out a decoy that will attract the guards attention for a brief period of time, perhaps enough for you to be able to get past.

If you do get caught by the guards, or die in some unforeseen way,  then the guards will decide to increase the security in the area that you died. While this may seem bad for you, the goods thing is that even though the next time you get to that room there will be more guards, the rooms that came before the one that you perished will have less guards as they have shifted their attention away from those areas. This means you can get back to the area that you were at last, and more narrowly focus on how to get past the area.

So far, the game has not a lot of rooms, and if you are able to avoid the guards easily, this game can be completed very fast. Depending on how I'm feeling about the game or what if any feedback I get on it, I may continue working on this and maybe add more areas perchance.

What are the controls?

The controls are WASD to move around and left click to fire a decoy. Also tab will bring you back to the main menu which will bring you back to the start, (also if you get caught by a guard or die, you can continue the game by pressing enter).

In Conclusion.

I would love any feedback about the game, it is the first game that I've decided to upload and it definitely has many rough spots. Anyway, thanks for reading my ramblings and I hope you give my game a try and hopefully get some enjoyment from it.