Trial of Meniskos [jam version]

Made for the end-of-year DOS Jam 2023.

Story:

You are a lone hero sent into the Anzeige Mines to recover several Crystallium Gems. This is your Trial. Succeed to earn the title of Lord Meniskos.

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Controls and Gameplay:

Arrow keys move back/forward and rotate.

Space bar attacks. Shift blocks. Both consume stamina.

Getting hit drains your HP, and getting hit while blocking drains your stamina. Recover stamina by not moving, attacking, or blocking.

Recover health when you find that level's Gem which teleports you to the next level.

This demo version contains 3 levels and has a theoretical possible high score of 750 points. 

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How to install:

Note: Due to technical issues with building the game for multiple platforms, this demo is ONLY released for MacOS currently. My apologies.

1. Download Meniskos.zip
2. Extract Meniskos.zip
3. In the resulting folder, there is an executable titled "play".
4. Double click "play"
5. Enjoy!

If the above does not work, you can use Terminal.app to try to run the file "meniskos.out". Please also comment here if you run into issues.

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Developer Notes and Credits

This project was made as an homage to early DOS raycast FPS games such as Wolfenstein, as well as more recent indie games like Lunacid (and its inspirations, King's Field and Shadow Tower).

This project _was not_ made with DOS, but rather the "dos-like" framework found here on Itch. This framework uses C and so it was good to flex my C muscles a bit without diving into the idiosyncracies of DOS itself.  That said, the framework naturally has its own quirks as I found while working on this. Still a very fun project, though I have yet to successfully build the game on all platforms.

Due to the above, future iterations on this game may leverage Godot, JS, or may be backported to _actual_ DOS if I'm feeling bold.

Credit to Kenney for the monochromatic tileset I used for the level art, enemies, and sword. 

Credit to the following Freesound users for the various SFX: AlienXXX (slime noises), Breviceps (slime noises), qubodup (slime noises), Saltbearer (bat noises), MrFossy (pain/death grunts), high_festiva (gem pickup sound), Robinhood76 (snake noises), poots (snake noises), Reitanna (snake noises), mateusboga (sword noises), xkeril (sword noises).

MIDI soundtrack done by Luminous Fridge using Signal Sequencer