This is a game I spent a week to make. I used Pygame to make it. it's for the Pygame Community Easter Jam April 2023.  The theme is ParticleOverdose, so as the name of the game. lol.

for that I made sure to make as many particles as I can. oops. it dropped the fps. matters not. particles are cool.

The Art, Code, and the Ideas are 100% mine. (except for some parts of the Assets, which I got inspired by other peoples work).

I went short on time, so the game is MUTE, there are no sounds at all, there is no menu, and there is not story involved.

Your goal in this game is to find as many diamonds as you can, as fast as you can. you can arm yourself up with 6 different swords with different abilities, you need some of them to gather certain diamonds.

there are 6 swords in the game. their names and powers are listed as below:

  1. Evergreen Evil: float into air, and enable flying for a brief moment, also faster swims
  2. Burning Desire: Awesome swirling throw attack, and lava swim
  3. The Way Of Light: Swift Horizontal Dash
  4. Blue Hawk: fly upwards
  5. Blood lust: no power yet
  6. Death Wish: Teleportation

  • use UP,DOWN,RIGHT and LEFT to move/swim.use A,S,D to move the camera.
  • use 1,2,3,4,5,6 to switch between swords.
  • use F for normal attacks and V for special attacks.
  • use Q,W,E,R,T,G as shortcuts for special attacks.
  • press SPACE for little jump and hold and release it for a long jump

Spoiler: 

as disappointing as it sounds, there are no enemies in this game yet. because it's for a jam and the deadline is just 3 hours later. And I'm extremely tired.

So what do you need the swords for? okay, for stuff like teleportation, flying, dashing, and lava immunity and stuff.

if you liked this project please consider starring it in my github page. it means a lot to me.

https://github.com/mmdmoa/ParticleOverdose

Also, you can run this game from source for a better experience. the requirements are only pygame-ce.

Special thanks to FinFET channel and Notenlish who helped me with this project! 


Development log

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I like the little details like the camera, particles, wobble, and the expressions, the game is super unique and very recognisable. The movement feels a little stiff at times (hitbox issues), and I even trapped myself at some point, which was kinda frustrating, but it's a game jam game so yeah I guess that's not that bad

Thanks!
I'm happy that you played it!

sick game

Cool game, I got 4 swords and 27 diamonds. My one suggestion would be that you should decrease the size of each tile so that the player can see more

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Wow 27 that's a lot! which one of the swords did you get? and which one of the swords did you like?

I added the changes you mentioned, and also a cool camera effect while dashing, flying or jumping.

I got the 3rd 4th 5th and 1st one if I remember correctly

oh bro you didn't get burning desire and death wish :sad: they do teleportation and lava swim