Hi!

We are Team Ninobi, a small student team of game designers working out of the Netherlands.

This demo for A Series of Rude Awakenings is the result of our efforts in learning Unity and C# while concentrating our learnings into a playable product.

The game is a small roguelike experience with character customization and side-scrolling combat. This pre-release demo lets the player venture down an increasingly treacherous cave system full of enemies and treasure.

If you do us the honor of trying our game out, feel free to leave feedback and comments on your experience in this thread, as an itch comment, or by participating in a short google forms survey linked on our itch page.

Find the game on our itch page: A Series of Rude Awakenings by Team Ninobi

We have just put out v0.2 for A Series of Rude Awakenings!

Patch notes for v0.2:

• Bug fixes:
  • Attack power now applies correctly.
  • Pause menu now shows the correct upgrade status.
  • Pause menu scale adjusted.
  • Several enemy spawn locations have been adjusted.
  • Bringing up the upgrade menu now correctly pauses the game.
  • The Staff is now able to hit crates.
• Artifact changes:
  • Featherweight Anklet >> Feather Pouch
  • Shield of Life >> Lightweight Shield
  • Shell of Roll Protection >> Shell of Hand Protection
• Combat changes:
  • Enemy health values now display with their health bar.
  • Enemies now take fall damage.
  • Knockback:
    • Weapons now do varying degrees of knockback on the final hit of a combo.
    • Blocking enemy melee attacks with the shield now stuns and applies knockback to the enemy.
• Other changes:
  • Music can now be turned off in the pause menu.

v0.3 of A Series of Rude Awakenings is now available!
In addition to a new PC download, you can now also play directly in your browser through the link on the game's main page!

v0.3 Patch Notes:

• User Interface:
  • Damage dealt by player now shows on screen.
  • Adjustments to pause menu.
  • Improved visuals for health bar.
  • Improved visuals for Renewable Vials.
• Combat:
  • Enemy balance adjustments.
  • Staff and Spear weapons can no longer block.
  • Three new player skills added:
    • Bomb
    • Rage
    • Fire Thrower
• Other:
  • Renewable Vials no longer automatically replenishes every stage. To obtain more vial charges, the player may purchase vials from the new merchant who appears once per stage.
• Resolved Issues:
  • Music settings now save correctly between runs and upon relaunching the game.
  • The Staff no longer hits enemies more than once.
  • When the player exits a stage, coins on the ground will automatically collect.

A Series of Rude Awakenings has been update to version 0.4 (PC and Browser)!

Patch Notes for v0.4:

• User Interface:
  • The player will now receive a notification when an artifact is picked up.
  • Added icon for keeping track of current Spirit Potion stock.
  • Stage transitions now let the player know which stage they just entered.
• Combat:
  • Added Spirit Potions:
    • A storable resource which is automatically spent on skill use, immediately restoring the use of that skill.
    • Up to 3 can be stored concurrently.
  • Added effect to let the player know they are currently benefiting for the “Rage” buff.
  • Added effect to let the player know they successfully blocked an enemy attack.
  • Fire Thrower skill adjustments:
    • Enemies now continue taking damage for a short duration after fire dissipates.
  • Void Field skill adjustments:
    • Now slows enemy attacks in addition to their movement.
    • Radius of skill is larger.
• Other:
  • The following artifact has been switched out:
    • Shield of Life >> Anti-Ambush Shield
  • Added and adjusted sound effects.
  • Added screen shake effect when player takes damage.
• Resolved issues:
  • Fixed issue where player interactions would sometimes be locked upon entering a new stage.

A bit earlier and a bit smaller than the usual update, but here it is hot on the heels of last Friday's update!

Patch Notes for v0.5:

• User Interface:
  • Added a timer to help keep track of how long the player has until they lose the chance at the bonus chest.
  • Made stage exit more visible.
  • Slight adjustments to Renewable Vial icons.
• Combat:
  • Enemy difficulty adjustments.
  • Void Field properties adjusted.
• Other:
  • Added new sound effects.

v1.0 of A Series of Rude Awakenings is out!

Patch notes for v1.0:

• Combat:
  • Added fire hazards to later stages.
  • Artifacts:
    • Anti-Ambush Shield is now Fireproof Shield.
• Other:
  • Skills are now acquired from a new NPC rather than from chests.
• Resolved Issues:
  • Skill potion UI should now display correctly upon entering a new stage.