Peace was never an option

2022

Beat them all

Unity
2D

PC

3 Days

In Peace Was Never An Option, you can become a goose named Vincent. This goose, as angry as ever, tries its best to defend its territory, while a hord of humans attack it.

The goose gets to fight with multiple weapons and to upgrade them to kill as many humans as possible.

If you choose to play, may the odds be in your favor... And kill them all !

Context

Peace was never an option was my first Ludum Dare Game Jam. I made it with friends for sebtember's Side Quests (an optional work we had each month).

Tasks

Skill Tree

To add some spice to the gameplay, the team made a skill tree and an XP system. The player can purchase one upgrade for each level up.

We made the weapons with other designers and I did every upgrades and the skill tree's organisation myself.
The skill tree is divided in two branch :
- The upper branch unlocks offensive skills like new weapons and damage upgrade.
- The lower branch unlocks defensive skills like additional health and dash upgrades.

The last skill in every branch is an OP power : The Magical Honk instantly kills all the enemies and the Berserk makes the player invincible for 10 seconds.

Inputs & Stats

I made the inputs myself and I have been helped by other designers to set up the statistics (like health, XP, etc...).

The inputs are simple, we wanted the player to easily understand and remember them.

The weapons stats do not increase damage, they increase attack speed, size, ammo (if any), precision and spread.
The dash stats increase dash distance and decrease the cooldown.
Each enemy give a precise ammount of XP and each level requires more and more XP.