Rising Smoke

This is a game about fighting the demons tormenting a ninja during his meditation. He's so strong that the enemies can't hurt him at all, unfortunately he's standing over a pit of lava. So dash into demons to stay airborne and rack up a combo by chaining dashes between enemies.  

Post-Jam Update:

• Added highlights for when you're aiming at an enemy in dash range as well as more slow-motion
• Sprites become darker when they're further away
• Added comic book action words because I thought it was fun
• Fixed the graphical glitch
• The sword becomes whiter the less range there is to your dash
• Reworded the tutorial

Please leave any feedback on the new update, I haven't had much time to test it because of uni work. So if there's anything wrong please let me know.

The first idea when give the prompt "Less is more" was a game where it becomes more difficult the fewer enemies there are. This lead to the idea of a platformer where you have to constantly jump on enemies.

But I thought of this when my hype for Cyber Shadow was at maximum, so I had ninjas on the brain, and I thought of a FPS game where you jump using a Genji-style dash. Thus I made this game.

Then I decided I'd try to fit more "Less is more" features in, like how the more dashes you do, the less distance you travel, and then the combo system where you gain WAY more points for chaining dashes without a break.

Honestly, this was the most fun I've ever had making a game jam game - even though I am severely sleep deprived. Mainly because this is just my type of game. But, I also learnt how to add tons of stuff to my games that I've never made before, like an options menu, intro animation, I MADE A FONT. I've been trying to figure that out for ages, and I finally did.

All of the assets and code were made from scratch over the course of the game jam by me. The programs I used are as follows:

• I used blender and aseprite for the art
• I used audacity and bosca ceoil for the music and sound
• I used unity for coding and everything

So overall, I really want to thank BlackThornProd for hosting this game jam. It's the best experience I've had in a game jam yet.