Welcome to Sporerunner!

A game about fungi rot spreading in an alien world!

See GDD:
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zx9xnBqV9fLNqC67EocR7fDhs2dENQV5btCMXP9M1xs/...

Also provided a PDF format as well as .docx for preference of viewing.

***Important note: 

The play button in the main menu takes you to the tutorial!

If you complete the tutorial it will take you to the main game. but if you leave and come back it wont save your progress! Instead click Level 1 to continue to main game. Thank you for playing!

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*see developer's note for more details

Primary Mechanics - See higher quality gifs in GDD

Mechanic	Animated Mockup  (Art not final - gifs are squished on webpage)
Throwing Knife -             Double Jump    &   Shoot Player can throw the kunai at Rotspores (LMB) or Use all its capabilities to double jump! (RMB)
Grenade & Dash       Players can throw a grenade at enemies or at their feet to launch them into the air momentarily later. The player Dashes in a straight line by using the nade ability. Doing so also spreads fungi that remove rot.
Enemies       The player has to kill all Rotspores and open all doors by spreading nade fungi to get through and finish at the teleporter mushroom!

Secondary Mechanics

Mechanic	Animated Mockup  (Art not necessarily final)
Timer         The timer tracks your pace and set your time. Time is of the essence! You must get through as fast as you can!
Ranking system         The player is placed in a rank at the end of each course. This is intended to encourage the player to replay the level and get a faster time.

Art

Theme Interpretation

I implemented the theme as an inspiration for fungi. As fungi spread with their spores, I decided to place the world on a decaying planet where a bounty hunter is hired to destroy the spreading rot. The bounty hunter is given good fungal spores (the Mushroom kunai and mushroom nade) to help stop it. 

By spreading your own fungi and destroying the rot fungi, you get through the levels as fast as you can!

Design

3d cave with a simple color palette. Blues, purple, neon greens and yellows. Simple yet captivating. All 3d/2d assets were made by myself (Snow)

Enemies

Developer's Note:    

Hi! I am Snow. I have been working in game development for just over 1 year now. 

I have been mostly an artist through this time but I started to learn programming throughout this last year. 

Whenever I do a game jam I try to do things I have never done before.

Due to not knowing how these functions work and taking the time to properly learn them is a challenge. I ran into a few bugs that took about a week of dev time away from me and I was not able to polish a lot of the visuals, ranking system, playtest for fair rankings, etc.

I do, however, plan on continuing development in this game. Regardless of this game's status in the game jam I 1000% Intend on releasing this game on Steam for a small amount after it's been polished, balanced, etc.

 I fell in love with this idea and am very passionate about this game. I do have a main project but I feel this game is a perfect small game to get my feet wet in actually releasing a game before my huge main project releases.