Promethium by Postcursor Laboratories

made by Postcursor Laboratories for LD35 (JAM)

https://github.com/postcursor-laboratories/ludum-dare-2016/

You can shapeshift into all the 4 classical elements. As such you have been tasked with murdering every single robot, which is what shapeshifters do. Can you kill all the robots before they kill you?

Controls:
Arrow Keys to move
1,2,3,4,5 to shapeshift (Human, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, respectively)
Z to punch
X to use Spell 1
C to use Spell 2

Spells:
Human: No spells
Earth: Rock Throw (lob a rock with gravity), Fissure (Wall of rocks stuns enemies in front of you)
Water: Surf (Dash forward), Frostbite (freeze and amplify damage)
Fire: Fireball (Throw AOE), Heatwave (Cast a line of fire that deals DOT)
Air: Gust (Fly for 5 seconds)

Made in 72 (73) hours using PhaserJS with HTML5 and ES6/Javascript, by a team of 4:
Charlie Green, __Init__, Kenyon Prater, and Kenzierocks

We ran out of time to do sound, basic balancing, and having a win condition, lose condition, or anything, but the concept is there.

Web	https://ludum-dare.kenzierocks.me/
Source	https://github.com/postcursor-laboratories/ludum-dare-2016
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=30695

Ratings

Coolness	36%	1666
Overall(Jam)	2.89	871

Fun(Jam)	2.89	726
Graphics(Jam)	3.10	678
Humor(Jam)	2.11	697
Innovation(Jam)	2.82	738
Mood(Jam)	2.73	810
Theme(Jam)	3.89	146

Feedback

MissVioletVi

19. Apr 2016 · 05:23 UTC

This game was amazing. So creative, so visually impressive. I loved the use of animation. The game matched the theme perfectly. There are a few balancing issues (FIRE OP), but still amazing.

🎤 Postcursor Laboratories

19. Apr 2016 · 05:33 UTC

Thanks! We were going to add cooldowns on the abilities so you couldn't just spam fire*infinity, but we ran out of time. :P

B0pt1K

19. Apr 2016 · 08:22 UTC

This game was brilliant :) The shape shifting implementation was great, and I really enjoyed the animations you had. The game was a lot of fun, if I had to mention one thing that could be improved, I would suggest perhaps the jump, seemed kind of floaty. But that's just a small thing and does not detract from the enjoyment of this game.

LoHii

19. Apr 2016 · 08:32 UTC

The fire dude was way too strong :D

wavertron

19. Apr 2016 · 08:48 UTC

IMO a little too much particle effects. Some sound effects would have really added to feedback/feel of the game when firing/getting hit etc. But great job overall.

dusho

20. Apr 2016 · 19:46 UTC

guess i bugged out after while.. also got pretty laggy
nice idea, though

namrog84

22. Apr 2016 · 04:33 UTC

i died! they died! we all died! fun!

🎤 Postcursor Laboratories

23. Apr 2016 · 05:44 UTC

Thanks for all the feedback, we've just pushed a fix for a bullet leak that led to a lot of lag. It should run much better now.

Larzan

23. Apr 2016 · 10:02 UTC

Hm, i couldn't shapeshift, just punshing. Then when i died the game kept going, i was invisible but could still punch, but still no shapeshift? (Win7-64 Chrome)

fin_nolimit

23. Apr 2016 · 21:12 UTC

That was fun!

🎤 Postcursor Laboratories

23. Apr 2016 · 23:32 UTC

@Larzan: Unsure why you couldn't shapeshift, but we weren't able to implement a restart for after you die, so the game does keep going and it pretends you are alive but unable to move.

deathray

27. Apr 2016 · 03:17 UTC

I liked the elemental forms... but the enemies were a little boring. Would be nice if there were different enemies vulnerable to different forms.

shane1090

27. Apr 2016 · 22:46 UTC

Liked the concept of shifting into the different elements but felt it should have had different enemies that either react or needed to be killed in different ways. I killed all the robots on the bottom level and couldn't see if there was any further progress to be had. Fun idea though, nice job!

LoneStranger

28. Apr 2016 · 08:32 UTC

Love the characters and the animations.

Rock Eaters

28. Apr 2016 · 22:19 UTC

i dont really understant what happen, but nice robots :)

tomlum

29. Apr 2016 · 13:37 UTC

Easily the most fun transformations I've seen. Unique but intuitive and all very different. Animation and graphics are also super on point.

Toonhawk

01. May 2016 · 17:02 UTC

decent take on the theme, but maybe it would've been better to have only 2 or 3 transformations and spend more time on figuring out what to do with them. This seems more like a tech demo than a game.