Paid In Blood

A Roguelike made for Trijam #226.

Can you eliminate all of the dungeon's monsters without paying the ultimate price? Progress through rooms and pay a blood sacrifice to unlock random upgrades to your wizarding abilities, such as bonus fire rate or more bullets cast per shot! I suppose you could say, You gain a little, you lose a little

Clearing a room without taking any damage will heal you by one heart, rewarding the most skilled players with some precious crimson currency with which an upgrade can be bought!

A unique map will be generated each time, though there was not enough time to make each room unique, so the layout doesn't change significantly.

FUTURE WORK

Features i would like to add in the future (outside of the gamejam):

- A wider variety of upgrades, such as bouncing fireballs, chance to ignite enemies, overpenetrate etc

- Variable cost upgrade chests (higher cost, more likely to be good upgrade)

- Potential for a bad outcome from a chest, such as an enemy spawns etc

- Wider Variety of enemies

- Fast Travel/Portal to get to far away cleared rooms more quickly

- Wider variety of room layouts

- Room decoration

- A boss room to appear after all rooms are cleared

CREDITS

There was a heavy use of third party assets, art, music etc here, there was no way any of this would've been possible in three hours without these great assets, many of which are free! Also several game-agnostic systems and scripts I produced previously were invaluable

blood droplet cursor - https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/humidity

crosshair cursor - https://kenney-assets.itch.io/crosshair-pack

pixel monsters - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-monsters-vol-2-226069

wizard character - https://sanctumpixel.itch.io/wizard-top-down-pixel-art-character-assets

dungeon tile set - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/environments/pixel-art-platformer-dunge...

GMTK platformer controller - https://gmtk.itch.io/platformer-toolkit

element splash vfx - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/stylized-element-splash-pack...

pixelart font - https://somepx.itch.io/humble-fonts-free

heart icon - https://opengameart.org/content/heart-pixel-art

free sfx - https://harvey656.itch.io/freesfxforanything

music - https://xdeviruchi.itch.io/8-bit-fantasy-adventure-music-pack