I'm working on a hopefully-commercial (sorry!) co-op action game called Inexperienced Knights. The colors, resolution, and music/sfx are loosely styled to an 8-bit console. This limitation was made to limit scope, but I hope the game respects the nostalgia some have for that era of gaming all the same. I'm not worried about imitating things like colors-per-sprite or some of the more delicate limitations of old hardware, so this doesn't strictly emulate an 8-bit environment.
The gameplay is pretty simple, and intended to be accessible to non-gamers as much as possible. All that's necessary to play is a two-button controller with a D-pad or joystick. Complexity and strategy comes from choosing the primary/secondary item loadouts, and how those interact with each other and other players.
There's still much to do, but I wanted to start sharing my progress with the Love2D community. I hope you enjoy it!
Intro screen. There are several layers of scrolling backgrounds happening here. The main logo also smoothly animates up and down, lending a bit of visual interest.
Main menu, obviously. The background mountains scroll, and the side-character changes depending on menu-item selected.
The goblin chases you around and can 'kill' you, but without weapon implementation it's not very exciting at the moment. The green/blue bubbles are where items will be displayed eventually.
Currently, one player is created for the keyboard on level-start, along with one for each controller plugged in. Drop-in joining, as well as pre-level player configurability are planned.
(Sorry, no .love yet!)
