Beef in the Reef

Hello!

In this two-player game (though I'd love for you to take a peek even if solo), you face off as brainslugs, quarelling over a prime cluster of coral. Shoot your parasitic larvae to hijack creatures of the sea, and run them into your opponents castle. Do enough damage and win! Fullscreen recommended.

Thank you so much for playing!

Controls:

During game:

P: Pause

Space: Return to main

Left/Green Player:

S: Shoot parasites

A/D: Turn Left/Right (Works for parasite and creatures)

Red/Right Player:

Down: Shoot parasites

Left/Right: Turn Left/Right (Works for parasite and creatures)

How to play:

- When you shoot your parasites, your character will turn grey. You can shoot again once it regains its colour. Guide your shot to any creature passing by to take control of them. You automatically swim forward, and only need to steer.

- Roshambo: Three different sea creatures will pass by at certain intervals, and will fight each other at the first touch! There's turtles, octopuses and swordfish. Turtle breaks the swordfish, the swordfish pierces the octopus, the octopus strangles the turtle. If you hijack one, take care to avoid the others!

- Every now and then an orca will appear! It kills eveything it touches and deals massive damage to a castle.

- Once in a while, a little helper crab will appear in the coral. Hijack it and bring it to your own castle for some health!

This game was made for Godot Wild Jam #67: PARASITE

Most of the visuals are stock footage, to which I have the right to use. You'll find a list of assets below. I did the coding, designing and music/fx myself over the course of the jam.

Assets used (and modified):

- Sandcastle: Storyblocks, Asset ID: SBI-317309877

- Reef Background: Subin Duangdee on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 8215956

- Coral Cluster: Adhito Alfattah on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 21849601

- Swordfish: Matt Cole on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 369790

- Octopus: MG Design on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 6897372

- Turtle: Surya Ali Zaidan on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 5162389

- Crab: Studiogtock on Vecteezy.com, Asset ID: 1931718

- Font: "Some Time Later", by Fredrick Brennan on Dafont.com

- Water Light Shader: "Water Caustic" by Haruyou27 on Godotshaders.com

- Water Ripple Shader: PlayWithFurcifer's video "How Games Make VFX" on YouTube

- Goop Projectile Shader: "Goop Projectile" by Erich_L on Godotshaders.com