Hell Gene
HELL GENE
Reject your birthright. Escape destiny. Create chaos.
Play as the descendant of the Demon King as you reject your heritage, take up arms, and escape through the ever-changing rooms of Hell. The only way to escape: Defeat the Demon King.
Along the way, you'll pick up temporary weapons to further annihilate your enemies, and gain the ability to permanently increase your own strength... at the cost of making your escape more chaotic.
CONTROLS:
WASD - Move
Mouse - Aim
Left Click - Melee Attack
Right Click - Ranged Attack
Left Shift - Dash
Created for the Brackeys Community Jam 2021 2
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Install instructions
Windows:
Download Hell-Gene-windows.zip
Extract folder
Play Hell-Gene.exe
Mac:
Download Hell-Gene-mac.zip
Extract folder
Play Hell-Gene-mac.app
Comments
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Overall well done, I enjoyed it!
I liked the different ranged weapons, whereas I have no clue how the different melee weapons differ.
Enemy design could use some improvements in general with their attacks, and the boss fight could be more interesting with perhaps some enemy spawns to be able to get new weapons during the fight. At this time I could just run circles around the boss and damage him slowly with the default pistol.
Hey, thanks!
Yeah, a lot of the issues you mentioned just had to do with a lack of time for the game jam. Melee weapons were supposed to have more unique properties outside of damage boosts, but unlike the ranged weapons where it was largely just changing the projectile type, we would've had to change how the melee attacks worked. Same with the boss. If we were to ever revisit this in the future, these are definitely all things we'll take into consideration for improvement.
Thanks for playing!
Amazing Game!