Submission for the DragonRuby Classics Jam: Gauntlet Edition. I recommend that you play the downloadable version :)

Trouble is brewing up in the sky and it is up to four heroes to eliminate the incoming enemy attack and destroy the portals that has spawned them, so that they can never attack you again. Each portal resists 30 shots.

For this valiant defense you can cycle between the brave Thor, the fierce Elf, the fearless Valkyrie, and the fierce Wizard.

You have to destroy the enemy portals and stop the enemies from reaching your player character. Your player character is the one that shoots. Shooting is done manually, you just select the hero that shoots.

Press Z to make Thor shoot.

Press X to make the Elf shoot.

Press C to make the Valkyrie shoot.

Press V to make the Wizard shoot.

If an enemy reaches your player controlled character, the game restarts.

Acknowledgments:

The game couldn't have been completed without the following:

Game background (I changed the overall color of this asset, from a blue-ish tint to a more brown-ish one). And I also added some cloud platforms to the asset (see below). Licensed under a Creative Commons Atribution 4.0 International license CC BY 4.0:

https://vnitti.itch.io/glacial-mountains-parallax-background

Cloud platforms (I took the clouds from the following asset pack and flipped them over), licensed under a Creative Commons Atribution 4.0 International license CC BY 4.0:

https://vnitti.itch.io/grassy-mountains-parallax-background

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Elf:

https://luizmelo.itch.io/huntress-2

Valkyrie:

https://luizmelo.itch.io/huntress

Wizard:

https://luizmelo.itch.io/wizard-pack

Thor:

https://oco.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-character-pack-2

Enemy:

https://luizmelo.itch.io/monsters-creatures-fantasy

Portal:

https://elthen.itch.io/2d-pixel-art-portal-sprites

For the cover image I used the keys asset from here:

https://nedokontent.itch.io/ui-wooden-controls

Special thanks to the Dragon Riders YouTube channel for the tutorial on how to make the animation, and to Amir Rajan for the source code for the Gauntlet sample, on which this game is based on:

Animation:

Source code:

And thanks to the community, who posts helpful tips on the internet!

This was my first time working with DragonRuby and the Ruby programming language, and I very much liked it! It's super fast and it's a great introduction into game dev! The fact that I managed to complete a game relatively fast speaks volumes on how straightforward the framework is. I couldn't test the Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi versions. Hope they work fine!

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the game!

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