Devolus

DEVOLUS

2455; The year of remote housing, cool summer nights and empty streets. Humanity was at their worst peak; self righteous and lazy whilst robotics
took them wherever they desired.

The life of a cyber hacker was hard in these easy times. That was... if you were human. most crime at these times were created by robotic beings, as they leave no traces behind at the scene.

One such event was the breach of Temprol, Capital of Devolus.
Draconic Wishbone gang leaders caused chaos around the
neon lit nights, causing uprest within the docked locals and those docking.

Police showed relentless force against the Draconic Wishbone, using their most
recognisable vehicle: The Slingshot to cause as much destruction possible to
the police forces of temprol and neighbouring cities.

The Slingshot was eventually taken care of by the police force, but the
event remained a historical learning point for future attempts at any
cyber related crime and those against it.

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CONTROLS!

Move with the WASD keys (Arrow Keys for those who are left-handed)

Aim with the Mouse and shoot using the Left Mouse Button

Pressing 1 uses Ability 1, a rocket launcher that launches a single rocket in a straight line and progressively increases in speed until it hits the edge of the screen or an object/enemy.

Pressing 2 uses Ability 2, a Shuriken that spawns at the location of the player, spinning around and shooting a large array of shots around the screen.

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Hey, I'm Dave and this was my Final Year Project for Uni in 2020. I am still learning how to create more detailled pixel artistry and once I am confident, I will redo all the art of this game and maybe add some new weapons, enemies or mechanics to it. I tried to experiment with a futuristic environment as I really love the cyberpunk/synthwave movement recently but I felt it doesn't really fit in that characteristic.

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Art, Gameplay and Coding done by myself using Piskelapp for Pixel Art, GiMP 2.10 for any external editing and Autodesk Sketchbook for iPad Pro for concept art.

Music is: Disconnected & In the Belly of the Whale by Nihilore, you can check them out here: http://www.nihilore.com/synthwave - Their music is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 act available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Sound effects created by myself using https://www.bfxr.net/

Font used: https://www.dafont.com/symtext.font?