Ashlings

This was my first ever attempt at making a game. I'd love to come back and make it fun one day.

You are tasked with going into the dungeon to take down the Dark Ashling. To do so you have 10 ashlings to raise. They begin as small infant blobs. Feed them shards you gather from defeating enemies in the dungeon to make them grow and gain new abilities. Once they become a child they will inherit one of the following: Spreadshot (From Red Shards) HP + Speed (From Blue Shards) Slow Enemies (From Green Shards) Piercing Shot (From Pink Shards) Bombs (From Yellow Shards)

From there you can feed them other shards to improve these abilities further with different attributes such as improved damage, more HP, faster movement speed, more range or added effects. Your Ashlings will go from Infant to Child, Teen, Adult and Final.

You can take 5 of the 10 ashlings along with you into the dungeon. If they die they will revert to their Infant form. Also be careful. If it turns to night time your Ashlings will lose their power and you will need to retreat to your hut. Once at the Hut, night will pass, your Ashlings will be healed and you can feed your Ashlings more shards.

Build up a team strong enough to reach and take down the Dark Ashling.

This was a bit too ambitious for a 48 hour project. This is the first Game Jam we've entered and the first project we've created together. We're amazed we got as much done as we did and had alot of fun doing it however by the end, some things didnt work as intended. However there is a game here with a start and finish so thats something.

We've left in our debug keys so if you're struggling you can use these to quickly grow your ashlings and try out the various abilities we've added. Just press one of the keys listed for the stated effect:

K - Reduce All Shard Requirements to 1

6,7,8,9,0 - Increase Amount of Shards you have. Each number corresponds to a different shard.