Lockstep

How to Play:

W, A, S, D - Movement

You can only move your character when the Clock is on your Colour (Blue)

Left-Click - Attack

The aim of the game is to survive as long as possible without you yourself being slapped!

The theme of the Jam was 'Frequency' so I went with the concept of a CPU clock. CPU's operate in cycles, hence the 'clock'. In the game, you can only execute the instructions for your little toon when the clock is over your colour - somehow tying back to a clock? Loose I know, but I wanted to opt for something that wasn't music or sound related, which were the first things that came to mind when thinking of frequencies.

Credits:

Thanks to the following community members:

• Tesselode (Roomy, Cartographer)
• Ulydev (Shack)
•  rxi (Flux)
• Kikito (Bump) 

for the use of their libraries. None of them were probably used the way they were intended, but made the jam relatively more smooth than what it would have been otherwise!

Font used in-game is "Press Start 2P" by Codeman38 on dafont

Slap Effect is based off of this one I found on Youtube but fed through Audacity with small tweaks.

Tools used:

• Aseprite (sprites)
• Bosca Ceoil (sound loop)
• Tiled (arena)

Extra Comments:

This is actually my first fully 'complete' game - never made music, never made art, never dealt with multiple states, never actually finished something! Thanks +7, and the LÖVE community for all your help!

Pre-apology for any bugs found! Known bugs include collisions aren't pixel perfect and that sometimes little toons appear outside of the arena.

 If you ever dare delve into the `.love` folder, I apologise, normally my code isn't so spaget!

I would love to come back to this idea in the future, so many corners cut, and so many unexplored avenues - so watch this space