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A jam submission

The SoulstealerView game page

Submitted by Sol — 12 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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The Soulstealer's itch.io page

Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmQ7lANgJpZo6CaNuUy6XOiPUWEGYvfgSC5sKkZWYMA/edit?usp=sharing

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes, people on discord confirmed

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarise your game!
AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS, A SENTIENT WEAPON KNOWN AS THE SOULSTEALER WAS RELEASED FROM THE STONE BY AN UNSUSPECTING SKELETON. NOW IT'S TIME TO UNLEASH THE CARNAGE.

COLLECT SOULS TO GAIN PERMANENT WEAPON UPGRADES.
CHANGE YOUR WIELDER ON EVENT OF THEIR UNTIMELY DEMISE AND TRY OUT THEIR UNIQUE SKILLS.

WILL THIS ALLERGIC TO FLOWERS SWORD GAIN ENOUGH POWER TO DESTROY ANOTHER CURSED WEAPON - SO POWERFUL THAT IT OPERATES WITHOUT A LIVING HOST, OR WILL IT PERISH FOREVER

A survivor-like game in isometric view, where the death of your wielder isn't the end, it's just the beginning.

When your wielder dies you get picked up by a random enemy in area (priority given to enemies within 500 units / 5m)

Each wielder (except the base skeleton) comes with an unique ability that should help you in one way or another.

Please explain how your game fits the theme:
You are literally a weapon.

Compelling creatures around you to wield you (like from that one trilogy I like).

You take control of them and use them to gain souls - that give you permanent upgrades.

If your wielder dies, you get picked up by someone else to do more carnage.
(because you are a weapon and not some mere mortal, and the only thing that can destroy you is another cursed weapon)

Is there anything you'd like the judges to pay particular attention to?
Don't be affraid to die a lot so you can experience different wielder abilities.

While it may increase the game time, it will never reduce your strength.

Expected run time is around 25-35 minutes.

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Comments

Submitted

Awesome survivor like twist. I didn't read anything and didn't realize when I died I would just get reincarnated. I like the vibes of the game. Was always getting killed when the summoner guy would show up. Nice job!

Submitted(+1)

Cool vampire survivors-like game. The art direction is very unique and impressive for a 2 week jam. Good work!

Developer

Thanks! A lot of things can be faked with couple lines changed in engine code and some shader magic :D

Submitted(+1)

This concept in a survivor like is very interesting, its looks like it has a lot of potentiel and i would love to see it expanded. the music was good and the old school art was really nice.

Great work!

Developer

Thanks a ton for the kind words! Have seen a lot of people really enjoy the game so I may consider making it into something more. 

Can take no credit for the music thou. That one is just from free itch assets (link in game description) xD