D E L E T E _ A L L _ C R E E P E R S

Reaper was made for Ludum Dare 52 and its theme, "Harvest." It's a brutal, fast-paced hack 'n' slash about the reaper eliminating creepers and claiming souls and power-ups from them.

Here's the Ludum Dare page if you want to leave a rating.

How to Play

• WASD/Arrow keys = Move/Select
• Space/Up/W = Jump
• Enter/K = Attack
• Esc/P = Pause
• Back = Unpause

Press "L" on the title screen to toggle scan lines.

Power-ups

• Movement speed up
• Attack speed up (hold to attack)
• Damage up (kill every creeper in one hit)
• Kill all creepers on-screen
• Invincibility
• Extra life

Devlog

A job that is debatably well done - January 12, 2023

How did I do this - January 9, 2023

Known bugs

• Creepers still rarely get stuck in corners
• Creepers and power-ups can appear over the player health bar and score display
• The Y position of digits in scores and high scores is sometimes slightly off

Latest version (view full changelog)

v1.1

• Added easy mode
• Replaced “Press any key to start” text on the title screen with difficulty selection
• Scan lines are now toggled on the title screen by pressing “L” instead of “S”
• Added high scores for each difficulty mode that are saved at the end of a game
• The player’s score at the end of a game is now displayed under “Game Over”
• The current difficulty mode’s high score is now displayed on the pause menu
• Added icons for extra lives that appear under the health bar when the player obtains them and disappear when used
• Fixed a bug where creepers would deal knockback to the player in the wrong direction
• Fixed a bug where creepers would always jump if they approach a wall, so the player could stand next to one and avoid all damage; now creepers won’t jump if the player is close enough
• Fixed a bug where creepers could still replicate themselves after they’re defeated but before they disappear, also making it possible for the replicated creeper to get stuck in tiles

Easy mode

• The player’s attack speed is slightly reduced, and the amount of time their attack lasts slightly increased
• Creepers spawn naturally (not by replication) every 1.5 seconds instead of every 1 second
• Creepers have 50% less base speed and a 50% slower replication rate
• The maximum number of creepers in the scene before they stop replicating is reduced from 20 to 15

I said before that high scores were secretly saved as of v1.0.2, but it turns out that was a lie because there was a logic error that prevented this. Whoops. Sorry about that.