A downloadable game for Windows

Made for (and the winner of) the Roguelike Jam 4!

It's a traditiona Roguelike where you descend a deadly dungeon filled with traps and monsters.
Instead of equipment, you upgrade yourself by copying abilities of monsters. In order to do so, weaken them, then enter them using your Parasite ability.

Can you make it to the final floor and defeat the Chimera?

Stack abilities of the same type to upgrade them.

CONTROLS
WASD/Arrow keys: Move
Left Mouse: Select
Right Mouse: Deselect
Spacebar: Skip turn
1-4/Numpad 4, 5, 1, 2 - Ability shortcut
Q/Numpad 0 - Parasite ability shortcut

More information

Status	In development
Platforms	Windows
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings)
Authors	SilversMind, frodoTimBaku
Genre	Strategy
Made with	GameMaker
Tags	2D, Dungeon Crawler, GameMaker, maze, Perma Death, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Singleplayer, Top-Down, Turn-Based Combat
Average session	About a half-hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse

Download

Rogue Chimera (Post-Jam Edition).exe 12 MB

Download

Rogue Chimera (Jam Edition).exe 11 MB

Development log

SPOILERS: Mutation paths
Oct 16, 2022

Comments

xyncht2 years ago

Basically, antibodies not having all the stats of normal enemies crashes the game if you screech them. This could be fixed by making screech never crit on antibodies, similar to leech, or by giving 'claw' (the antibody attack) a cooldown. Or giving antibodies a trait that renders them immune to all crits from everything all the time. IDK.

Also IDK if it is relevant but I had the crit chance up passive at the time.

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FATAL ERROR in

action number 1

of Other Event: User Defined 0

for object obj_enemy_antibody:

Variable obj_enemy_antibody.claw_cooldown(100026, -2147483648) not set before reading it.

at gml_Object_obj_enemy_antibody_Other_10

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

stack frame is

gml_Object_obj_enemy_antibody_Other_10 (line -1)

called from - gml_Object_obj_control_Other_10 (line -1) - <unknown source line>

called from - gml_Object_obj_control_Step_0 (line -1) - <unknown source line>

SilversMind2 years ago

Yeah, I discovered (and fixed) this bug after the deadline was over. Can't do much about it right now until the voting period is over, unfortunately, but will have an update ready as soon as it's over, fixing bugs and adding some extra content, like at least one new enemy (and its associated abilities)