Now You Have [No] One

Published in memory of Esdeer aka BSOD - a game designer, a visual artist, a composer, a friend.

The legless robot boss has probably inspired the form of Nikolai The Demon from Castle of no Escape 1-2. Though, sometime after this prototype and before the release of ConE2, Esdeer has introduced another character to the LD[T}W (Let's Destroy [The] World) project, named K'Noodsen, as an owner of the said robot (called "golem" for no real reason except a magic flavor to the word).

Now You Have [No] One (beta-version 5)

Made for: Ludum Dare 28 — December 13th-16th Weekend — Theme: You Only Get One

How to play: 

Controls:

Click the START button to start or continue the game.

Select one or multiple units by pressing or holding left mouse button.

When selected:

1) Click right mouse button to make the selected units move to the mouse cursor position;

2) Click middle mouse button to set their direction.

3) Press 1-5 keys to raise their parameters (500 EXP for each upgrade). You can see what you upgrade with which key on the upper in-game info panel.

Gameplay:

Each character has his/her own unique passive abilities:

Esdeer (red): every friendly unit in range does 2X damage.

Kotori (yellow): auto-spawns EMP waves that damage enemies.

Rezista (cyan): slowly heals every friendly unit in range.

R2 (blue): certain enemies in range are slowed down to 50%.

You lose when you have no characters left alive.

There is no ending in this beta-version and technically there are only 5 levels, as nothing new appears after the fifth one.

Authors:

Game concept: Esdeer and Xitilon

Programming: Xitilon

Spriting: Esdeer (some visual effects by Xitilon)

Music: Esdeer (title menu soundtrack - feat Xitilon)

Original LD[T]W characters and visual designs by Esdeer

Tools used: 

Engine: Game Maker 8.1 Standard

Graphics: GM built-in sprite editor, and I forgot to ask Esdeer, probably WinXP MSPaint

Music: FL Studio, OpenMPT

Sound: findsounds.com

17.12.2013