I didn't want to post again until I had a demo level completely done. It was to be replete with its own wonderful boss, the most feared Saurian raider of them all; the one they call
LOS COLMILLOSDefeating him and all the other goblin bosses while scoring
perfect rankings in their levels will unlock the Saurian faction who fight with
SHIELD & MISSILE rather than with Pike & Shot, have their own leader characters as well as their own kinds of doppel soldiers.
Unfortunately, my day job has been lousy with overtime lately and so things are a little delayed. On the bright side I may get some time off soon as a result and then can hopefully get some DEEP DEVELOPMENT done.
BUT, the bugs in the old alpha build
bugbothered me so I've decided to release a small update that fixes them and adds has some of the stuff I got done recently.
Pike'n Shot ALPHA v0.2 (windows only for now )NEW FEATURES THIS RELEASE
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-Fancy pansy CRT effect shaders (Thank you for all your wonderful assistance,
David)
-Brand new loot & coffer (health bar) system to address the old design problem of how losing soldiers put new players into a terrible game state where they couldn't really play the game properly anymore due to their formation getting gimped.
CONtrols
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arrow keys - movement
Z: Pike!
X: Shot!
Z + X: Doppel Soldier attack
ESC: quit
CTRL + 1: restart game
CTRL + 0: turn fullscreen mode off/on
CTRL + 9: turn shader effects off/on (Try
playing with shaders off if the game is
running poorly on your computer.)
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
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Kill Saurian raiders until they are all
vanquished.
If you run out of money your army of mercs
will retreat (game over)
Earn PHAT LOOTS by killing ranged or
shielded heavy infantry to keep your mercs
paid and fighting.
Pikes cannot harm shielded opponents.
Break 'em with shots first or hack them
down with a Doppel Soldier.
Doppel soldiers earn double! Add them to
your formation by filling up the second
coffer bar without taking a loss.
Taking a loss while the doppel coffer is
up will forfeit the entire bar.