This is my entry for Glinny's Cauldron Jam, using Glinny's ingredients. I made it with my brother over a 4 week period. We used Unity, and all assets have been created by us, except for the font.


The scenario is that you've been cursed by a Demon and you're looking for a potion that will cure you. You have arrived at a Witch's house in a far-off land. The Witch can help you, but she needs you to collect 3 ingredients.

You use an item called a Witch Ball to collect monsters and then throw them into the cauldron. If you've captured a monster in the Witch Ball you can throw the ball to kill enemies. To release the monster, just throw it at a wall.

Throwing 3 ingredients into the cauldron will make a potion. Try different ingredients and see what you get.


Controls

Move: WASD or arrow keys

Throw ball: SHIFT

Interact/Dialog: E or SPACE

Pause: ESC


Spoilers below.


Glinny's Ingredients

  • Instant death from touching the SIDE of a spike. Not the dangerous points, but the side of the spikes.
  • Every loading screen is a bright blank white screen.
  • No buildings can be entered. Anytime you attempt to enter one your character says "It's not the right time for that"
  • Every town has a mandatory Bad Anime Hot Spring scene.
  • SLOGAN: Get ready to explode your balls into a firestorm of dust and skeletons.
  • CELEBRITY LIKENESS: Justin Bieber as "Squeelin" Shay Higgins

Extra ingredients

  • Ambiguous selection options at the end of a long string of dialog.
  • You are punished for doing what the game tells you to do (pig recipe).
  • Annoying music.
  • Game developer is in the game.



Tools and Assets Used

  • Engine: Unity 3D
  • Image Editing: Aseprite, Krita
  • Sound: Ableton Live Lite
  • Font: Pixel Arial 11
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authormapleglaze
GenreAdventure
Made withKrita, Unity, Aseprite
Tags2D, Action-Adventure, Halloween, Pixel Art, Retro, Short, Singleplayer, Top-Down, Top Down Adventure, witch
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard

Download

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WitchBall_1.0.1.zip 24 MB

Comments

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Wonderfully vile! Great job.

Really cool game! The art style and music was amazing and I liked that you could try putting any combination int to the cauldron :D

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little piiig little piiiig

(nice work, really neat little game, L&R)

pretty damn fun - good mechanic

Really well made. Quite fun! Played the whole way through.

Cool idea/mechanic, nicely paced. Good job!