Plumb outta luck

Made in 3 hours, for Trijam #292

Instructions/Controls

WASD / Arrow keys - Movement

Left click/Space bar - Shoot (Can be held down). Release the 'Shoot' key in order to recharge ammo

You are a tiny goblin plumber (Perry) who has been tasked by Greg the giant to help fix his haywire toilet. Greg, in an effort to save a bit of money, went to a dodgy plumber who Perry is pretty sure was just a Warlock desperate for cash. As such, the toilet is cursed, firing out water at lethal speeds.

Fortunately Perry is psychic (well, he can telekenetically control plungers) and his modus operandi is to hurl plungers at his problems until they cease being an issue.

Development

I originally didn't intend to enter this Trijam, as I couldn't decide on a game to make. The most obvious choice in my brain was to make a boss battle, but surely I couldn't manage one in 3 hours?

Well, that's what the Trijam is all about at the end of the day, so I decided to just have a go! The scope ended up being cut way back (as usual), with the original battle intended to feature;

• Different types of attacks e.g. circular telegraphed spots to dodge
• The water attacks to be triggered in a staggered fashion, forcing the player to be more active  in their movement around the game space
• The player being able to charge up a larger plunger attack

Despite the above remaining in my imagination, I'm super happy with how the attack telegraph effects turned out, as well as the eventual grid-based implementation I settled on for triggering the attacks themselves. Being able to implement 2 stages & the different attack paterns for them was great fun.

Credits

For once I had time/appetite to try and make my own art and sound effects!

JiminySnicket (That'd be me) - All visuals + SFX, except for the below:

Kenney (kenney.nl) - His lovely button graphic, used traditionally as all buttons andunconventionally as the AoE telegraph indicator

Kevin Macleod  (incompetech.com/wordpress) - Background music '8-bit Dungeon Boss'