ConFused Industries

Controls

WASD, Arrow Keys, Controller stick - move forward/backward and rotate left and right

Space, Ctrl, A/B - Animal special action, and interaction with ConFusion machines

R / Select - Respawn

Esc / Start - Menu (volume/exit to title)

Animal Trait Special Abilities

Chonky - Releases a shockwave that blasts movable objects outward

Comfy - Can jump, and then double jump in mid-air!

Sneaky - Instead of falling fast, Sneaky nearly floats on air.

Speedy - Can sprint in a direct line facing forward for a short time. This can even bridge some gaps.

Stretchy - Can Jump high once and then wall-jump as many times as it likes, provided there is a wall to jump on. (Note that the Stretchy animals were feeling extra-confused and so this is the least tested.)

What is this?

TLDR: Mostly a fun character creator that needs some UX polish, and a very very prototype-stage game using that character creator.

You are a new breed of highly intelligent and specialized hybrid animal who just escaped from their holding area at ConFusion Industries! Use one of 5 special abilities to solve puzzles, and mutate into other types of animals when you need the other abilities! Or, at least, that's what it hopefully will be someday. Right now the level after the character creator is mostly just a testing jungle gym. You can play around with using and mutating your animal, and find all the neat narration points if you can!

Credits

LoparPanda - Programming, Polymorphic Animal base mesh, blend shapes, procedural animation, and shaders. Music, Sound Effects

I stream gamedev stuff on Twitch!

Narration VO artist: https://www.fiverr.com/timwells692

Title Screen building and Level design - Assembled by me with Asset Forge using the included blocks as well as additional blocks from the Kenney Game Assets bundle. Both Asset Forge and all blocks are available at https://kenney.itch.io/

Font: League Gothic

Made with the Godot engine!

Special thanks to supershigi for making this jam and building such a wonderful community that has, among many other things, helped rekindle my passion to tell stories through game development.