Erosion (Ludum Dare 48)

A speed-based 3d platformer where your body decays as time goes on, but you gain speed and unstable new abilities the closer you are to collapse.

Use yellow orbs to repair yourself - making you solid enough to trigger pressure plates, and use pink orbs to destabilize yourself - making you more agile but closer to collapse.

This is a fairly small gameplay prototype of the concept we thought of for Ludum Dare 49, started strong for this jam but an animation workflow issue jammed us up on the final day and we had to cut a bunch of art assets right before the deadline unfortunately.

Thanks to Owlmoss for the great art, and Lachlan James for the fantastic sound & music.
https://twitter.com/_lachlanjames
https://soundcloud.com/lachlan-james-music

Controls

• Escape to return to the main menu
• ` force quits the game (it's left over from debug, I'll remove it soon - try not to press it by mistake)
• R to quick-reset the level
• WASD to move
• Space to jump, press again or hold to climb over ledges within range
• E to use any repair pickups (yellow orbs) you collect to make yourself more solid
  
• Q to use any damage pickups (pink orbs) you collect to make yourself more unstable
• Over time you become more damaged, moving from Solid, to Damaged, to Eroded, and eventually falling apart
• The more damaged you are, the faster and lighter you are
• Pressure Plates trigger nearby doors, you must be Solid (Blue) to activate them
  

Double Jumping

• If you are either Damaged (Yellow) or Eroded (Red) you can jump again in mid-air

Air Dashing

• If you are Eroded (Red) you can hold shift in mid air to aim an air dash, aiming with the camera and releasing shift to dash
• You can air dash through grated walls in the Eroded (Red) state

Patch 0.3.1

Turns out I forgot to link the updated music tracks to the audio players, this content was all made during the jam but in my rush to test the 2nd level I forgot to connect it to the code.

Experimental Build 0.3.2

Added some WIP player model animations, as well as a blockout of an improved tutorial level - experimental builds are for development testing purposes only.