RuleScramble

Table of Contents

1. Summary
2. Rule Notes
3. Story Mode
4. Arcade Mode
5. Known Issues
6. Source

Summary

Read the rules of the level and scramble to achieve the victory condition. But don't avert your gaze, in arcade mode the rules are quickly changing, meanwhile in story mode the rules change in a more expected manner!

Rule Notes

Attacks:

• Clicky attack: click on the enemies
• Shooty attack: click to shoot a bullet in the direction of the mouse

Perspectives:

• top-down: W moves toward the mouse, A & D rotates around it
• platformer: W to jump, A & D to move left and right
• vvvvvv-platformer: W to switch gravity, A & D to move left and right

Powerup:

• Any pickup Powerup: Enemies and Player can pickup a powerup
• Player pickup Powerup: Only Player can pickup a powerup
• Enemy pickup Powerup: Only Enemies can pickup a powerup

Story Mode

Follow the story of a white circle as it learns the ins and outs of the world. Expect changing rules and maybe some shenanigans. Pay attention to the the rules in the upper left, because they may change automatically, or an enemy might even be changing them. In top-down perspective, W & S moves toward & away from the mouse, where A & D rotate around the mouse. Explore the levels with some trial and error to figure out the proper order to complete them.

Select your difficulty. It doesn't matter until the final level. [NOTE: Choose easy for now, there's a bug and all in all it doesn't change too much!]

Arcade Mode

Pay attention to the rules on screen. These tell you what will happen when playing, but watch out, enemies can change them. Scramble to the victory condition to get more points and get a high score.

Known Issues

• Performance issues on windows 8.x. If the game appears to be running slow, you can press F2 while in arcade or story mode to show some diagnostics. The tps value should be 30. If it's consistently less, then it's likely that you will not be able to play the game. Sorry.
• On the final stage you might fall through the floor. You will need to hit Esc to go back to the title screen to reset, or wait for the time to run out, and then press R. If this happens repeatedly, I suggest setting the difficulty to Easy, so that you get checkpoints on the boss phases. [This should be fixed with the latest build, but I'm leaving the note here regardless.]
• After dying on the final stage the script to get the attack doesn't play. To work around the issue, change the mode to easy.
• Do not maximize the window. The game relies upon being played in windowed mode.
• Hitboxes are offset a bit, to the bottom right.

Source

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/NicholasDenaro/GMTK-GameJam-2020/tree/v1.0 (Note that I will be fixing bugs as they are reported, but will be unable to publish a new version until voting ends on 7/19).
I used the engine here: https://github.com/NicholasDenaro/.NET-Game-Engine