Synchronicity

If you're struggling with dying in fights, read the combat guide below!

Objectives:

• Destroy the life support system
• Kill the captain and obtain a disc containing data on what happened to the envoys!
  
• Leave the ship through the exit door. On the top left corner of the map

Controls:  

• WASD to move
• Q and E to rotate
• Tab to switch targets (must be done before rolling)
• Space to continue/interact when prompted 
• P to pause

Theme implementation:

The idea was that every enemy and the player is connected through this shared infection. The enemies are so infected that they are connected by a hivemind. The player grows in strength from killing enemies and inheriting the infection, but slowly grows more fargone for each kill. This actually results in a game over if the player ends up killing too many enemies (You'd have to kill every enemy on the ship twice over atleast).

Story:

In a brutal war between the Galactic confederacy and the Ebon empire, one side has developed a hive mind like infection, where anyone and anything who comes in contact with it becomes slowly controlled by the hivemind. Our hero finds herself trapped on a ship infected by this. 

Combat Logic:

Each enemy has 3 stats: Hit Points, Damage and Threat

The player does a skill check before every roll. Depending on how the player managed to do on the skill check:

• Good: +1 dice to each player stat for every roll.
• Neutral: Player rolls normally.
• Bad: -1 dice to each player stat for every roll.

The player then rolls the dice. If a dice value is above the target's threat threshold it is a successful hit and marked green on your console. 

An enemy with a threat level of 5 requires each dice to roll 5 or higher to count as a successful "hit".

Each ATK success deals 1 damage to the target enemy. 

Each DEF success reduces the damage the player takes this turn by 1. 

Each VIT success heals the player by 1 .

At the end of a player's turn, all enemies will deal damage together by a fixed amount. If you're fighting 2 marines that do 3 damage each, that means you'll take 6 damage per turn unless one of them is killed. Groups are extremely dangerous early game.

A player can further increase how many dice are rolled per stat by killing enemies to level up. Each enemy provides a different +1 dice bonus. 

Prioritize killing the correct enemies first to level up your weakest stats to fight stronger threats.

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Contributions:

Dezura	Coding & Design & UI
Álmos	System Design, Narrative, some Coding & few Art assets
WannaBeArtist2	Art
Hannon Hawkes	Music & SFX

Pixel Font: "New Gen" by Mateus (mateusboga)