Dream Knights

Submission for CU November 2023 Game Jam (with the theme being "Dreams"). Our game is a turn-based RPG about "Dream Knights" who fight off "nightmares". 

This game is like the "final boss fight" of a 30-hour RPG that doesn't exist (yet?). 

It's relatively incomplete (you'll see dream attacks have "DP" and "NP" points, which was part of mechanict that wasn't fully implemented), but what we considered the core mechanics for a playable boss battle have been implemented (attacks, buffs/debuffs, heals). 

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The "DP" and "NP" points were our substitute for "mana"/MP. "DP" stands for dream points, collecting enough would have earned you a "dream card", which would aid the player in some significant way (eg. stat ups, debuffs on enemies, direct damage to enemies). NP, or "Nightmare points", would earn you "nightmare cards", which give the enemies a significant boost. 

Using moves therefore comes down to weighing the benefits of a move's strength against the number of nightmare points and/or dream points it earns.... But none of this is in the game! Enjoy all moves to your heart's content! Go wild!!!

Warnings:

This game contains a spinning animated background and small flashing elements. Characters on the screen very briefly blink when performing actions and taking damage. The number and frequency of flashing elements is likely not enough to be harmful to anyone sensitive to such effects, but we felt the need to warn of their inclusion regardless.

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Aside from music, all art assets and sound effects were created by Team Marsh for this game jam project. We developed our game with the engine Godot.

Team Marsh:

Andrew Aubut (Programming, Enemy art + background art and animation)

Sameer Naseem (Programming, party member portraits and "hit" sound effect)

Music:

"Grim Idol" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Unity" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Game Engine: Godot