Introduction

This is a submission to the 2018 GMTK game jam. The theme was "genre without mechanic" where the game had to remove a key mechanic of an established genre. For example, a platformer without jumping. This game aims to be a top-down shooter where the player cannot shoot. The robot enemies will shoot lasers at you, but your only line of defense is reflecting them back with your sword. Hence the name of the game.

Game Instructions

You can move the player with the WASD keys and swing the sword by left clicking on your mouse. The player's orientation will follow your mouse cursor allowing you to more accurately aim the sword swings. Enemies can only be killed by their reflected bullets. There is a glowing teleporter pad on each level that acts as the exit to the next level once all enemies are dead. Getting hit once will reset the level.

Instructions for running game

Unzip the files and run the bat file in the top-level directory. You will need the pygame module and possibly the latest version of python though older versions may be fine as well.

Credits

Pygame was used for the game engine: https://www.pygame.org/

Uses an open-source Python A* library for enemy pathfinding: https://github.com/jrialland/python-astar