Hi all! Me and my friend decided to throw ourselves into our very first jam together and honestly, into game development in general. We're complete beginners at basically everything here, and this jam felt like the perfect place to start.

About the theme

We chose Absurd + Side Effect because enemies drop materials that give you unpredictable, ridiculous side effects. You play a normal metroidvania, but if you decide to gain an advantage against your enemies... Be ready. These effects might help you, but they'll come with a price.

About the Game

You play as a scientist on a mission: explore, fight, and collect the materials needed to synthesize the cure, the world has fallen into chaos, and it's up to you to bring it back to what it once was . Make your way through different zones, take down each zone's bosses, and unlock new abilities that will help you in your mission.

This is a prototype, and  some utlized assets are free placeholders from itch.io, and the music was sourced externally. No AI was used for any of it. We plan to replace everything with original content as we keep developing the game.

"cure prototype" is a temporary name and will be changed in future

We’re aware that there are several bugs. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to fix them in time, including bugs that broke some "absurd side effect" we had to temporarily remove, but we’ll work on resolving them

At the moment, the prototype ends at the boss encounter and does not yet include a proper ending message. As development continues, new content and features will be added, and the boss fight itself will be further expanded and refined. This prototype is intended to showcase a idea of the gameplay and mechanics we plan to develop in the full project.

Current Content

• 1 Biome , 4 explorable zone + 1 temporary with a heavly WIP boss
• A prototype of the side effect system with 2 different absurd effect

Planned Content

• 5 biomes,each featuring a unique boss
• Abilities to reach certain areas
• Overhaul of the absurd effect system
• Material Synthesis system (raw materials may provide useful effects, but they can also have negative and absurd side effects. Crafting potions from multiple ingredients results in more refined and beneficial outcomes.)
• Original  art, sound and music
• Story
• NPC and shops
• Bug Fixes

Thanks a lot to the Metroidvania Month jam for giving us the push to start! It was also a really interesting experience developing for a game jam, learning to work within a limited timeframe and around a specific theme.

We're very new to all of this game development, jams, everything, so if you have any feedback or suggestions, we'd really appreciate it. We're open to any kind of advice that can help us improve! 

I handled the sprites, while my friend took care of the development  in Godot. 

Some temporary sprites are from free asset pack on itchio (like landofPixel and other thing under the lab theme forest)

The music is from Google sound library

All temporary assets will be replaced with original content in the future