Blitz

Instructions
Mouse Click to dash or attack enemy
Time your attacks to land in the white bar!

Saving a town allows you to buy an item
Click your item in the bottom left to use

Item Effects:

• Fairy: Automatically revives you upon death
• Gold Potion: Gives gold on use
• Weakness Potion: Weakens the enemy you're fighting
• Shield Potion: Gives temporary buff that protects you from death
• Time Potion: Adds extra time to the clock
• Lightning Potion: Instantly damages the enemy you're fighting
• Speed Boots: Increases Run speed passively
• Big Sword: Makes enemies easier to hit passively

Description
Made for the 2019 GMTK Game Jam. 'Only One'

Blitz is an Action RPG where you only have one minute, one item, and one life.  The odds are against you, do you have what it takes?

This game is played using only one button: left mouse click.


Postmortem - 6/24/2021
    This was my first real game jam submission. I managed to rope a friend in to make the pretty pictures, which freed me up to focus solely on the programing. I feel like we did a pretty good job on this one. I spent a lot of time adding some juice to the game, nice effects and sounds, energetic music, particle effects.

    I definitely think the biggest pitfall we ran into was the game idea. It was overly complicated and not unique. I got the idea to apply the theme to as many facets of the game as possible, instead of spending time finding one unique mechanic that could carry the game. This lead to a game that was hard to understand and didn't have much depth to it. In future game jams I try to spend more time thinking of an idea that can work within the time allowed.

    Looking back though I'm still pretty proud of how we did. I learned a lot about adding polish to games through this, finding small effects that add life to the game, such as the final boss moving across the background as you approach, the dash effect, figuring out particles, making my own sound effects, and editing the games music to fit.