They See Us

A roguelike/adventure game about minotaurs made with Love2D for the LoveJam 2018.

Controls: WASD / Arrow keys + space to sprint. (also tentative joystick support thanks to Baton)

Features:

• Roguelike arrangement of maps created in Tiled
• Enemies pathfinding with Jumper
• A win state based on collecting enough of an item (yarn, to be specific)
• Day/night cycle
• Upgradable health
• Simple dialog with branching possibilities (kinda)
• "smart" signs to help with world navigation
• Rainy weather particle effect

Post-Jam additions

• Bugfixes, natch
• Higher difficulty via higher diversity
• Smoother difficulty thanks to conditional enemy spawning
• Enemies have a "bravado" system that allows infighting to have victors
• A decent little handful of display options
• A handful of audio options
• Stat logging
• Ultrasimple death scene
• Explosions after enemies die, and ripples when you collect items
• Arrow, bomb, and spike traps
• Map & gem (compass) items
• "Horn" item that gives the player a sort of radar
• Freeze item - stops enemies dead in their tracks
• Magnet item that sucks other items towards the player
• Coin collectibles and toll blocks that you can remove with coins
• Teleport entities for instant travel inside a region, and Portal entities for transporting from one region to another
• joystick support (tentative, I need to sit down with some different devices and try them all out)
• Several extra maps! Maps for days!

Todo/In-progress:

• More, denser maps / higher detail in our existing maps.
• Better dialog / story details
• Rendering of minotaur attributes (present but invisible)
• "Hatred" system that makes the enemies pickier about getting angry
• Cloud weather effect

Known Issues:

• Camera does not account for differing screen resolutions. At the moment, this is not intended to be fixed, due to artwork limitations.