Spirate

Our team made everything for this game from scratch in 46 hours.

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<UPDATE> There are two versions for multiplayer:
- Local coop with one keybord, mouse and game controller - "Spirate.zip" (this version is the original one from the gamejam)
- Steam multiplayer, where both players have their own keybord and mouse - "SpirateMultiplayer.zip"  (this version was possible thanks to our team-member Barevnej)

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“ARRR! The most recent raid of an ancient island seems to be successful! I may have not found much gold but look at this big shiny stone! What?! Are you trying to tell me that the stone is cursed and has awoken the ancient magical golems that are now trying to kill us?! WHAT?!“

Spirate is a co-op top down shooter that narrates a story of a silly adventuring pirate Captain Goldbeard, who unknowingly “borrowed”  an ancient runic stone cursed with an old magic, and forest fox spirit Narahaya who lived on the island in harmony – until now. Together, you must return the stone to one of the powerful island’s spirits living in their castles on different ends of the island as they might be, perhaps, able to do something about it since they seem to be somewhat connected to the power of the artifact.

You and your friend will cooperate together on pushing the runic stone through the unforgiving jungle full of obstacles and fighting vengeful golems that will try to destroy you for awakening them from their slumber. Unfortunately, the golems have already adapted to the energy of Captain Goldbeard and Narahaya so you must switch your only gun to be able to banish the specific, colour separated enemies – all that while pushing the stone to stop the chaos as soon as possible.

The goal of the game is to return the cursed stone to a temple. The runestone glows magically to point out the way. The character holding the gun can shoot only when standing in shining rune-circle cast by the other player. The character pushing the stone can’t shoot as they don’t hold the gun, but they should use this time to push the stone. To exchange the gun, the character that does not wield it can steal it from their partner. Since there are two colours of the golems, you will need to work on simultaneously pushing the stone in the indicated direction and getting rid of the two colours of enemies that might overwhelm you.

Controls:

Narahaya:
Movement: Joystick left
Aiming: Joystick right
Shoot: Button  RT
Steal the gun: Button RB 

Captain Goldbeard:
Movement: W A S D buttons 
Aiming: Mouse
Shoot: Left mouse button
Steal the gun: Right mouse button

 

Gamejam Topics:

Genius Loci: Spirits that guard the temples 
Runes: Runic island, runic stone
Zero: Zero progress
Distance: Shooting

Our team:

Cozy Games Studio et al.

Tereza Langová (Langosh)
- art and animation
- UI design
- female dragon dubbing

Sofie Kalinová (TenebrisTheFox)
- character design
- environment art
- spirit dubbing

Jan Kutálek (john333)
- level design
- programmer

Dan Juříček (ItsKita)
- programmer
- sound designer and music composer

Filip Barva (Barevnej)
- programmer
- pirate and male dragon dubbing
- Steam multiplayer version of the game