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The souce code is also available on GitHub!

How To Play

• Use WASD or D-Pad – Move, jump, and climb
• Z or Left click – Shoot – Most things will break, some will burn
• X or Middle click – Roll – brief invulnerability, does damage, gives a boost, puts out fire
• C or Right click – Grenade – 3 per life, use wisely
• You can also use a Xbox or SNES style controller, connect up to 4 for co-op play!
• Kill all enemies to complete the level
• A radar along the bottom of the screen shows nearby enemies
• You start with 10 lives and get 3 more for completing each level
• For an optimal play experience please use Chrome in full screen mode
• There is no end, but for a challenge, try beating the first 5 levels

Gameplay Tips

• Roll to put out fire!
• Rolling also does melee damage to enemies
• Keep your distance from the specialists (white), they roll and flip often!
• You can hold down jump to climb up walls
• Jump flip to get more vertical height (roll immediately after jumping)
• To reach really high places try a grenade jump!
• You can press R to restart the game

Game Features

• Run and gun / roguelike hybrid gameplay
• 2-4 player jump in local co-op mode
• Procedural level generation of great variety and complexity
• Levels are fully destructible with persistence
• Fire propagation and explosion system
• 5 enemy types with a larger variant
• 7 different crate/barrel/rock types
• 17 sprite textures using a 12 color palette
• Checkpoints can be captured for players to respawn there
• Multi layer procedurally generated parallax background
• Starfield simulation with moving stars, planets, and suns
• Particle systems for rain, snow, blood, explosions, weapons, water and more
• Native resolution rendering up to 1920×1200
• 11 different sound effects with ZzFX
• Up to 4 player co-op with 4 gamepads!

Engine Features

• Custom game engine written during the compo is separate from game code
• Super fast rendering system for up to 50,000 objects at 60 fps
• Physics engine for axis aligned bounding box rigid body dynamics
• Tile based rendering and collision system
• Particle effects system
• Input processing system for keyboard, mouse, gamepads, and touch
• Math library with Vector2, Color and Timer utility classes
• Audio with ZzFX has ability to attenuate sounds by distance
• Debug visualization system not in JS13K build. (press ~ to enter debug mode)

Enemy Types

• New Recruit (Green) – A bit shorter, more hesitant, takes only 1 hit
• Soldier (Blue) – Average height and ability, takes 2 hits
• Captain (Red) – Can climb walls and jumps more often, takes 3 hits
• Specialist (White) – Jumps and rolls often, they are ninjas, takes 4 hits
• Demolitions Expert (Purple) – Throws grenades and can’t catch fire, takes 5 hits
• Small chance of a heavy weapons variation that has double health and fires full auto

Props

• Plastic Crate (Brown) – Burns easily and breaks when fully burnt
• Metal Crate & Barrel (Gray) – Is hard to destroy, can’t burn
• Water Barrel (Blue) – Puts out fires and pushes away objects
• Explosive Crate & Barrel (Green) – Burns and explodes after a few seconds
• High Explosive Barrel (Red) – Explodes quickly and much larger than normal explosives
• Rock (Color Varies) – Heavy and very hard to destroy, can’t burn, can crush enemies
• Lava Rock (Glowing Red & Orange) – Anything that touches it is lit on fire

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