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XORN by Harrison Dunn

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made by Harrison Dunn for Ludum Dare 50 (EXTRA)

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Entry for the Extra

Control a friendly xorn as you navigate your earthen home eating gems to survive!

Controls - WASD - movement

Collect gems before (inevitably?) getting defeated by greedy adventurers! Each gems fills a different stomach and each stomach grants special traits. When an adventurer catches you, you lose the contents of your stomach. If they catch you while you're starving, it's game over! There's also lava! Touching it will make you empty all your stomachs (even red!) and if you touch it while starving, it's also game over!

Blue gems - faster move speed
Green gems - gem sight
Red gems - Can take multiple hits first

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Known Issues
- ~~Xorn will sometimes run in a direction upon startup and be unable to take input controls. Having difficulty reproducing. Might be a webGL thing.~~ Resolved in update v0.06.1
- Gems will sometimes pop-in or not glow correctly while green stomach has contents

Design, Programming, Pixel Art, Font - Harrison Dunn
Title Art - Disco Diffusion AI
SFX - Kenney.nl, pmsfx.com
Music - "Xorns Big Adventure" by John Praw​ & Sam Ludwig made for LD50

XORN uses the xorn monster under the Open Game License. You can read the full license here.

Version History:
Latest - v1.0
v1.0 (4/20/22) - music update, balance tweaks, and LAVA!
v0.06 (4/14/22) - balance updates, music, infinite run bugfix.
v0.05 (4/14/22) - SFX, main menu, credits menu.
v0.04 (4/13/22) - gems grant traits, increased enemies and aggression.
v0.03 (4/10/22) - enemies & animations. It's almost a game now.
v0.02 (4/5/22) - added stomachs & gem eating!
v0.01 (4/4/22) - uploaded initial project with movement, digging, and randomly generated world

Link https://cfhm.itch.io/xorn
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/xorn

Ratings

Given 9🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Nate954
05. Apr 2022 · 05:04 UTC
I know it's still early on but I just wanted to say I love the art so far! The gems are big and chunky and the effect when you break a block is clean! Also the style of the background is really cool, almost like a painting! Keep it up!
oneowerse
05. Apr 2022 · 06:01 UTC
The graphics are beautiful, but the character needs to be animated, but I didn’t understand the essence of the game.
🎤 Harrison Dunn
05. Apr 2022 · 12:21 UTC
Thanks for checking out the early prototype @nate954 & @oneowerse! I plan to animate the character, but it took a backseat to getting everything else up and running. When I made it, I wasn't completely sold on the concept yet.

And I don't blame you for not getting the game - there isn't much of one yet :)
Viktor Dedek
05. Apr 2022 · 15:17 UTC
I like the old-school name of the game. Almost like Tron but more dark and alien :alien: :blue_heart:
Trashbag
05. Apr 2022 · 15:17 UTC
I'll be happy to check this out again when there's a solid objective to this game, but for now I can't see how it matches the theme or provides any challenges. I'll be checking this out after the prototype though, if that gets fleshed out.
MagicBarbu
05. Apr 2022 · 15:24 UTC
I had a bug which made the character go always to the right T-T
🎤 Harrison Dunn
05. Apr 2022 · 17:18 UTC
@magicbarbu Does it happen every time you start the game? I haven't been able to repro this issue.
MagicBarbu
05. Apr 2022 · 18:43 UTC
@harrison-dunn I have retried twice and it's the same result (I clicked twice on the right close to a green gems each time)
![infinite.gif](///raw/109/34/z/4cc29.gif)
binroot
07. Apr 2022 · 15:10 UTC
I love the dig-dug style games, and this one already makes one innovation I haven't seen before: a quick sparkle to hint at a gem in the area. I love that it feels endless. Great work so far, excited to see where it goes.
Yokin
07. Apr 2022 · 19:29 UTC
Seems like this game has potential, maybe you could spend the juice you get for the different gems on different abilities that help you get gems to make a risk-reward type of thing
🎤 Harrison Dunn
07. Apr 2022 · 20:19 UTC
@yokin shhhh, stop looking at my design doc ;)
Zyang
09. Apr 2022 · 01:18 UTC
The graphics seems to be interesting, the map is Wang tile and looks nature.
Three kind of food seems to have some potentials...
I guess add some growthment(for example, some block become harder and you become more powerful when you eat) and sense of purpose(for example, change the map to vertical and you should dig deeper) will make it better.
RollyRollin
10. Apr 2022 · 20:41 UTC
I like the graphics a lot! However, the red versions of the xorn guy weren't really a threat. Also my guy went on an immortal death march in one direction, he's going twice as fast as normal and he won't stop.
🎤 Harrison Dunn
10. Apr 2022 · 22:19 UTC
@rollyrollin thanks for checking it out! Yeah, it's untuned as of yet. I intend to playtest with significantly more and faster enemies.

That infinite direction bug is still there, eh? I'm not sure what's causing it. I'll try some new things. Thanks :)
zimny11
14. Apr 2022 · 17:40 UTC
Love the gems art style and lighting effects. Pretty fun to play. The bug with infinite direction is still there :/ Anyway, cool game.
LDJam user 279546
14. Apr 2022 · 19:33 UTC
The game concept and design were great. I really like the uses of the different gems and how much each type is scattered across the world. Great job! I encountered a bug that caused everyone to only move up, and that forced me to stop. I had fun otherwise though!
Erkberg
14. Apr 2022 · 20:07 UTC
Really solid foundation you made there and curious to see the final game. Also great to see you on stream again today! Here's the link if you want to rewatch it: https://youtu.be/LUs4mltqVVw
🎤 Harrison Dunn
15. Apr 2022 · 15:12 UTC
@magicbarbu @rollyrollin @zimny11 @jzucc12 BUG VANQUISHED! Thanks for your help and feedback in figuring this one out!