A short RPG story inspired in old-school RPGs like Earthbound, Golden Sun and Pokémon. This is my first pico-8 game, hope you like it!
Find patch log for v1.1 at the end of the description.
Controls:
Arrows: Move player - Move cursor
X: Interact - Select
Z: Open menu - Go back in menu - Close menu
Premise:
You are Rio, born with the monster eye, a special ability that allows you to learn the abilities of your opponents in battle. You must stop the never ending winter by defeating the evil idols that reside in the mountain. To do so, you will need to learn abilities, level up your stats, and re-spec your stats accordingly based on the enemies you encounter.
Battle reference:
There are three main stats:
ATK (Attack): Some abilities scale damage based on your ATK stat
AGI (Agility): The chance to dodge an attack, caps at 6
DEF (Defense): Each defense point will decrease damage by 1 in most cases, but damaging abilities that hit will always do a minimum of 1 damage
The menus will allow you to change abilities. In the menu, you will be able to read an ability's explanation, it will aid you to defeat the idols.
I hope you enjoy my little game, love the pico-8 community, be safe, and thanks for stopping by!
Version 1.1 Patch log:
- Improved movement and collision to be smooth instead of tile-based jumps
- Improved random backgrounds for battles
- Balance patches:
a. [nerf] Leech is now dodge-able
b. [nerf] Slash damage increased to 3, ATK Scaling reduced to B - Fixes:
a. Roof tile collision
Fun! I played this game to the end and really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed picking out my own strategy for the combat, and gaining the powers of my foes.
Maybe you should make the battle encounter animation longer + with sounds like in earthbound
yo I have some suggestions.
- The game is short, can you make it any longer?
- you should add some more sfx, like for attacks, magic, and other stuff
- game over screen, where is it.
- save files (optional)
- better backgrounds. backgrounds you used here kinda suck. I found an alternative called Sine Shifter. Here is the link: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2847
- please add more areas :)
Bonus Points: make better music. It’s not bad, but it’s also very short and stuff (also can you add music for bosses?)
if you can’t do this, it might be because of limitations, laziness, or you don’t want to do it.
Thanks for your comment, ArsonCoolio11 and RedLemon7000! I will see if I have some time to at least enhance the game a bit :) I'm currently quite close to the token limit, so I'll have to refactor some of the code first.
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