The Soul's Price

Shoot your way through zombies as you collect their souls, to fight the boss! Created in a week for the Jingle Jam Game Jam 2024! You can check out the game's git repo here!

Each time you play, the outside cells are randomly chosen from a precreated grouping. Each weapon set is balanced for those who want to do high damage, or those who want to play it on the safe side with a longer reach.

EngineerSmith; Programmer + Art + Design; Twitter/X; BlueSky
Alex Connelly; Audio/SFX; itch; Portfolio

Controls

• WASD
• Mouse to aim
• Left mouse Button to attack
• E to interact with boss egg; note you must have 200 souls
  • or as a cheat, CTRL+SHIFT+E triggers the boss spawn

Pitch

A top-down, GTA 1 style, zombie arcade game. Players must explore generated zones, killing a boss to get to the next zone.

Cut mechanics/Ideas

In the end, I couldn't find an artist, and had to cut the scope in order to factor in the added art time. Below are some of the planned that will not be.

• Traits; you'd gain traits each time you killed a boss. Each trait would grant you a positive attribute and a negative attribute. Each trait would take away from your humanity
• Zones; each "level" would take place further out of the city, so each area would have a certain preset of cells to pick from. Such as, Inner city, outer city,  and countryside.
• End boss; at the end when you have taken 3-4 traits, and have lost all your humanity... you're the end boss! Humans appear, to kill you - now a mutated zombie!