Made in 3 hours, for Trijam #314

Instructions/Controls

WASD / Arrow keys - Move character

Left click/Space bar - Cast fireball, in the direction you last moved

Shift key - Start/Stop time

Your objective is to survive for 2 minutes, as you perfect your ultimate spell and stop time forever. An army of archers will try to stop you, you can take 3 hits before dying!

Pause and unpause time using Shift (or until your mana runs out) to dodge arrows (they can't hurt you when time is stopped, even if you walk into them) or to kill off archers while they can't move!

But beware, whenever time is stopped, so is your countdown to victory!

Development

I really liked the themeing here, it was great fun to design and implement! I'm most happy with the sound + visual design for when time starts/stops, as well as with the very simple but charmingly effective enemy AI!

Credits

Me - The arrow sprite

Kenney (kenney.nl) - Tileset from the 'Micro Roguelike' pack

Kevin Macleod  (incompetech.com/wordpress) - Background music '8bit Dungeon Level', slowed to 0.7 times speed

Sfxr (https://sfxr.me/) - All SFX