Dark Bugs
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How To Play
Controls:
• WASD ~~~~~~~~~ Move
• Left Click ~~~~~~~ Left Hand Attack
• Right Click ~~~~~~ Right Hand Attack
• Hold Q & Click ~~~ Weapon Magic Skill
• Shift ~~~~~~~~~~~ While Moving To Run
• 1 Key ~~~~~~~~~~ Use Potion
• Space ~~~~~~~~~~ Use Evasion
• Tab ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Toggle Inventory
[Hint: You can see this guide in-game when opening inventory with TAB key]
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Kill enemies to earn XP and grow stronger.
Push forward through waves of enemy bugs and survive intense combat to reach the final boss.
This game features 3 unique bosses and a variety of bug-like enemies scattered across the map. If a boss ever feels to hard,
go get some XP, leveling up gives you HP, stamina and room for more health potions! Explore the many parts of the map, kill enemies and have fun!
Leave a comment if u managed to defeat the king, or even the whole trio! Enjoy!
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UPDATES SINCE LAUNCH:
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• Balanced Weapons Damage/Knockback Output
• Added Invincible Timer After Respawning
• Fixed What Enemy Killed Now Shows Who Did It (found a bug!)
• Lance Skill Now Makes You Invincible
• Increased Hit Box To Make It Easier To Hit
• Reduced Cooldowns To Use More Skills
• Improved Death Script To Avoid Errors When Dead & Being Hit
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Oh my ants... are Ticks sucking your soul? Stomp on them!
Getting surrounded? Slash through them & finish them off by throwing multiple daggers!
Afraid to die? Try again next time!
Have you ever seen an Ant spinning with a BIG sword? >:O
...and you are not alone in your journey - Call your Doublesword Familiar to help you, and shoot sword beams to destroy your enemies!
Find & defeat all 3 bosses in the game. And use all your power to revenge your family!
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The Story
A tiny ant. His colony destroyed. His family crushed under the heel of tyranny.
The one responsible? The monstrous king. He seeks revenge, but the obstacles are many.
With only his wits and a handful of trusty weapons, his journey begins.
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Credits
Game Design, Beautiful Character/Scene Art, VFX, Animations and some Programming By: https://xrayhunter.itch.io/
Game Design, Boss, Enemies & Multi Stuff Programming, Music & Sounds By: https://simpanhardner.itch.io/
Game Design, Player Controller + Weapons Programming & Animations By: https://litoid.itch.io
Assets
https://kenney.nl/assets/particle-pack
Sounds
https://freesound.org/people/seanas80/sounds/91466/
https://freesound.org/people/duckduckpony/sounds/204028/
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/394419/
https://sounddino.com/en/effects/spider/
https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/54745/
https://freesound.org/people/manda_g/sounds/54987/
https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/59451/
https://freesound.org/people/DrMinky/sounds/167074/
https://freesound.org/people/Department64/sounds/718790/
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Comments
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I agree! this is so good. I'd like to have had some sort of map? or, better yet (to me, anyway) - toggle on an ant trail - showing me where i've been. that would be really cool.
I especially loved the poison visual effect from the mushrooms. I gotta ask - did you use a color inversion, or did you have a set of poison coloured assets on top of all the other assets?
Hmm an ant trail... Funny. Because they do that in real life... Haha yeah I thought about making maps like Zelda. Where you move from one block to another, and have multiple paths. But didnt think about adding an actual map to see where you have been and where is unexplored. That could have worked.
And yet - game is relative small to get that lost :P
I would have to ask my partners about it - but im pretty sure it was a mix between cinemachine and post process effects for that :) I can take a look at the game editor and see how exactly it was done if you want.
Thanks for leaving a comment!
simply the best game of the jam, graphics, battle, soundtrack, everything is perfect.
that's lovely to hear from you <3 thanks!
I’m not trying to brag, but I defeated the 3 bosses! Where’s dad’s crown? hahah
hahaha nice! so you did really explored the whole game and found them? Give us feedback to make it better or what you liked the most - so we take this to create more of these nice experience :)