Gush

Gush is a dungeon brawler game built with Kaboom.js on Replit.com for a 1729.com contest.

You can play it on Replit, or fork the code and make your own version.

Features

• Seven playable characters with unique weapons
• More than a dozen enemy types
• More than a dozen levels, large and small
• Scripted challenges within levels
• A scripted boss level
• Collectible coins, used to unlock characters
• Flasks that restore health, give shields or DEADLY BURPS
• Chests may have coins, flasks, nothing, or something else...

How to play

Use a gamepad controller for the best experience.

Or, use keyboard & mouse, or keyboard alone.

Some characters can shoot: aim with right analog stick or mouse.

• Gamepad: Left analog stick to move, bottom button to attack, right side button to burp.
• Keyboard & mouse: WASD (or arrows) to move, SPACE to attack (or left click), B to burp (or right click).

Tools used

• Replit.com
• Kaboom.js v0.6.0
• Stitches (spritesheet generator)
• Aseprite
• EZGif Sprite Cutter
• FFMpeg
• And of course, Google & Stack Overflow

Graphics

• Dungeon Tileset 2
• Blood FX
• Assets Free Laser Bullets Pack 2020
• Pixel Art Effect - FX084 (+15 Effects)
• Pixel Effects Pack
• Kenney.nl Pixel UI Pack
• Will's Pixel Explosions
• Free Pixel Effects Pack #12 - Mini Magick Shoots 3
• Free Pixel Effects Pack #13 - Fireballs

Sound & Music

• Shapeforms Audio Free Sounds
• Hypercasual Music Pack 1
• Hypercasual Music Pack 4
• Action RPG Music Free
• Sound Effect Starter Pack

Feature Tracker

Essential features

• Red flask restores hp of course
• HP is always in increments of 1, each 1 represents half a heart
• Blue flask gives a shield on top of HP
• Green flask gives charges of Power Belch, burp kills enemies around player, small one charge, large 3 charges
• Chests can contain flasks or coins
• Show coin count on UI
• Multiple characters with different health & weapons
  • Coins can be collected through multiple game runs to unlock more characters
• Current level can be reset when player dies.
• Different levels
  • Use more tiles: banners, fountains, slime, traps
  • Load next level at ladder down
  • Different level rotations for each character
• Triggered events & boss fights
  • Walking over trigger sets off scripted events for the map
  • Rooms can be closed off with crates blocking exit until event finishes
  • Music changes for certain events
• Music for each level (simple music manager w/ crossfade)
• Select/unlock character screen
• Game over/reset level screen (YOU DIED)
• All characters added with different weapons
• Full map rotation for each character
  • 2 full maps (designed for each char)
    • sniper gallery with crevasses for shootie pie
    • narrow hallways and big open areas to dash around for Pokey
    • mix of the above two for lizzy's cleaverang
    • huge waves of monsters to smash with crushy hammer
    • big concentrated waves to explode with fireballs (floating platforms with lots of projectile enemies?)
    • lines of enemies for lazer wizard, narrow passages, maybe chase areas that close behind and let you run ahead of chasing enemies
  • 2 random treasure rooms between them (3-5 small rooms like this are good, some with a mimic, some with flasks, interesting layouts)
  • 1 boss fight (probably same one for every char - big demon, waves of enemies, bullet hell, need 3 big burps to win, announce to tell player what to do)
  • golden flask treasure room for end game (with some announce flavor text, congrats etc)

Character classes:

• Swordy Boi - starting char, all other are unlocks. decent sword, decent hp
• Shootie Pie - decent bow, decent hp
• Pokey Elf - killer spear, dash attack in one direction, mediocre hp
• Smashy Dino - slow, powerful attack with big hammer, great hp
• Lizzy Butch - throws meat cleavers, slow & powerful
• Burny Mage - cast fireballs, heavy dmg, low hp
• LAZER WIZARD - laser attack fires through enemies, good dmg, low hp

Monster AI

• Basic monster movement AI
• Necromancers raise armies of 1 hit skeletons
• Orc Shaman can heal their friends
• Mimics lie in wait, then bump you back and chase you
• Demons cast fireballs at you

Nice to have

• Scooty Poke leaps backwards if he ends overlapping an enemy
• save health/shields/burps between levels (except on boss - empty burps)
• Meat Cleaverang for Lizzy
• Force 1.5 aspect ratio no matter screens size
• Better monster spawn/despawn (save position to objConfigs, improve framerate maybe)
• Controller support
• Minimap
• Interim treasure levels
• Add announce names to levels, some triggers
• Main menu screen
  • Logo intro animation
  • sound/music adjust
  • control remapping (maybe not worth it)
• Win screen & credits
  • Show stats: gold collected, flasks collected, monsters killed, damage taken/healed etc.
• Simple tutorial messages on game start (only show once, turn off in localStorage)
• Store player's last attack dir so attacking while stationary feels right
• More sound effects
  • player footsteps
  • more sword swings
  • monster noises on attack engaged
  • specific monster type noises when hit
  • arrows bounce off walls
  • heartbeat when health is low
• Some enemies drop a skull as a visual effect (non-interactive).
• Pause menu with options
• hp bars on damaged enemies
• restart from last "checkpoint"? (last trigger point - hard to implement)
• mouse aiming and click to fire