Portal Defenders

Hi! This is my first ever submission to a game jam and is for MiniJam 186: Evolution.

Portal Defenders is a stationary survivors style game where you use your mouse to direct a sword flying around smiting your enemies! Between rounds you can upgrade the sword to make defending the portal easier.

The game isn't perfect from a balancing point of view but I think it's still pretty fun!

The limitation of Failure is Progress was fulfilled with the bottle in the corner of the screen, as enemies reach the portal it will slowly fill, and when the boss appears at the end of the game the level of the bottle directly impacts the boss's health, so the better you are, the harder the boss will be, the worse, the easier.

I am no artist but I tried my best at my own animation for both the bottle and the portal, although the portal was an edit of a pack listed below by arex-v, but we all have to start somewhere :D

I hope you have a bit of fun playing this, its been a very lack of sleep filled few days and I am happy to have finished a project and published it. The full game takes about 14 minutes to complete, although the upgrade cards are randomized values each time so might be worth playing a few times to see how many swords you can get at once :P

Credits:

https://mr-pixelz.itch.io/16x16-pixel-swords - Swords

https://toffeecraft.itch.io/slime-pixel-animations - Slime

https://opengameart.org/content/animated-knight-character-pack-v20 - knights

https://arex-v.itch.io/damp-dungeons - Tileset

https://opengameart.org/content/pixel-card-assets - Card Pack

https://opengameart.org/content/up-against-a-blob boss music https://pixabay.com/music/video-games-background-music-for-mobile-casual-video-game-short-8-bit-music-164703/ background music