TRIGGORE by Lumpy
Something strange is coming. Something foul. A graveyard has sprouted out around you. Deranged creatures roam the night. It's time to think fast and shoot sharp! Get ready to pull the TRIGGORE!

TRIGGORE is an action packed shooting gallery game. You start the game vulnerable and must arm yourself to survive! Left click to shoot. Hold right click to interact. WASD moves the camera.

Coding + Art: Francis Coulombe Art: LumpyTouch Music: cboyardee and askiisoft
| Youtube | https://frankiesmileshow.itch.io/triggore |
| Youtube | https://frankiesmileshow.itch.io/triggore |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/triggore |
Ratings
| Overall | 19th | 4.299⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 26th | 4.201⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 152th | 3.813⭐ | 82🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 638th | 3.216⭐ | 83🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 48th | 4.409⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 20th | 4.22⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 369th | 3.097⭐ | 74🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 18th | 4.354⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
On my first playthrough, I ended up missing searchable objects beyond what the tutorial text told me, so I died to a monster confused in total darkness (I'd only lit the one candle and let the whatis text guide me). Once I started uncovering chocolate and other weapons though, it became a lot more fun trying to balance between searching, equipping, and shooting.
Awesome job!
I learned that in a zoombie infested house, never let go of your gun

This is clearly a good game, but really need some polish as well. It was really frustrating at times when I just wanted to reload but the camera move so I wasn't on the ammo box anymore, and it happens many times and with almost all interactable objects. Maybe I should have played the web version on fullscreen ?
Other than that, it was fun and difficult ! I hope to see this game updated !
I only made it to night 2 though because I was too stressed XoX
Can you win the game or will does it continue forever?
It reminded me a lot of games like Prohibition on Atari ST, but with a great amount of strategy. I loved the "where the f** are my matches" moments! Simple and efficient mechanics, great art style and sound design. My only grief is the connection with the theme which is quite thin here imho.
Anyway, amazing job on this one!
Visuals and sound is great! Thanks you for entry!

Excellent gameplay. Searching the room for weapons, tools, etc. when also try to fend off the comming monsters was amazing experience!!! And very polished game too!!!
The retro pixelart graphics was great with fluid animations!! And with amazing sounds and music to complete the experience.
Just out of curiosity is there a end or you just try to survive as long as you can?
One last thing change the LD game to show that the game is also available in **WEB version**. I almost didn't try this gem because of that!!!
The looping horizontal scrolling was great but I felt like the vertical scrolling didn't add anything to the game. It slightly added to the exploration at the start but often just got in the way when I was trying to fight off the enemies. So in a way it did add to the frenecity of the game, just not in a satisfying way.
Great art, I thought I recognised the artist and sure enough I had seen his garfield gameboy video.
It would be nice to move around candle, or have a random chance to torch the creature.
Feels-off at times 'repair' windows & doors. Great work on the pixel-art!
I don't know if its endless or there's a night-cycle to survive as long you as can till dawn.. (Apparently a text signalling another day approaches..)
The Knife didn't seem clear for its reach besides the sound-cue of its swinging action. Just add more animations (more pixel-art frame based animations instead of the tweened smooth scaling; e.g- clean up of the spillage; and progress bars [segmented or pixel-frame-based); (unless you have some shader to pixelate + dither?) :thinking: .
One bug that triggered me [no pun intended] is the swap between the weapon (machine-gun) and toolbox, somehow whenever the weapon gets swap-positioned on the fireplace you could no longer pickup the weapon. Despite some minor rough-edges, pretty solid entry! :thumbsup: :dizzy:
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/494941552?t=5h40m40s
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady