Shroud of Dracula

Shroud of Dracula is a single-player, top-down action RPG where you save your classmates and drive back the forces of evil before their spreading invasion takes you first. Procedural generated maps along with a spreading mechanic that rewards speed.

Story

Arriving to help set-up for a fairy-tale themed Halloween school dance, the main character the knight, is surprised to see corruption taking over the school. With only his umbrella as a weapon he takes on the spreading evil and heads to rescue his 9 classmates and 1 teacher while defeating the bosses, a mummy, banshee and the werewolf (optional). With limited time before the corruption consumes the school, He must defeat two bosses and locate all classmates members.

Classmates- Cheerleader (Little Red Riding hood), Jock (Huntsman), Rebel Kid (Goblin), Book Nerd (Witch), Science Nerd (Mad Scientist from Frankenstein),  Visually Impaired Exchange Student (Monk from Shippeitaro), Guide Dog (Shippeitaro), Twins (Dragon costume in two parts, head and tail), English Teacher (Woodland Elf)

Will they be rescued?

Enemies
Hell-hound, Scarab beetles, Bats, Zombie, Vampire, Shadow creature

Bosses

Banshee, Mummy, Werewolf (Optional Boss)

Game Details

The current game is a prototype made for the Pirate Software Game Jam. The current game play duration is approximately 10-20 minutes. There were many more ideas and elements that we wanted to include but couldn't do so within the two week creation time frame.

Controls

Character Movement: WASD / Arrow Keys / Left Analog Stick / DPad

Attack: Left Click / Space bar / X Button

Block Right Click / Control / B Button

Run: Shift / A Button

Interact: E / Y Button

Map Toggle: M / Select

Pause: Esc / Start

Future Development Plans

Mini Boss Tree with cut scene showing school to learn mechanics

Game story line feature and character dialog

Add Additional Bosses  (Dracula’s wives, Dracula, etc.)

Add small Enemies and additional attacks

Add Room Decor

Idle animations for Characters

Add Additional rooms like Cafeteria, Gym, Computer room, Wood & metal shop

Add Player Inventory System

Team mates

Art & Art Design

Clouded_Dreams

Programming and Design

FullontheMouth

Music

JacksNightTerror

Accessory Designer

Killer_Cutie07

Dev Notes/Fun Facts

A perfect block will open the umbrella and counter attack dealing extra damage.

All sprites, backgrounds and digital artwork within this game were created by Clouded_dreams using Krita

All the game developers are first-time developers. None of us had any experience in game development before the start of this process. This was a wild, but fun two weeks.