Castle Chaos

Welcome, Noble Adventurer, To Castle Chaos.

You are about to enter the castle dungeons in your quest for adventure, armed with a burning torch and your magical staff. But beware! There are many monsters lurking in the shadows.

To survive, you must pass through three levels of the castle dungeons. Each level increases in difficulty as the monsters attack you in greater numbers, with multiple waves per level. You will hear a trumpet call when you have passed a level -- when that happens, brace yourself for more monsters coming your way!

Kill a monster to get ten points. Every six hundred points, you will gain a magic shield. You won’t lose any lives while the shield is up, so that's your chance to run and shoot as many monsters as possible! The shield lasts for thirty seconds, but it will break immediately after three hits.

You have only three lives, shown near the top left. You lose one life each time you’re hit, so good luck and Godspeed, fair hero / heroine!

Controls:

Walk: Hold down left / right arrow keys on your keyboard or the '<  >' arrow buttons on-screen.

Attack/shoot: Press the spacebar or the blue 'Attack' button on the right-hand side.

Development Notes:

This was a university project created solely by myself in December 2019, over 5 weeks. The challenge was to re-make 'Space Invaders' with our own unique theme.

It's....er...low budget, to say the least, and definitely has that 'uni student' quality to it. 😂 We had to create it in Google Web Designer (groan) using p5.js (p5 was great, so if it's buggy, you can blame GWD *pained grin*).

Since it was a class project, we were limited to Creative Commons or Public Domain media resources (all of which you can find in the game's Credit page). Thankyou to all the amazing artists out there whose resources I used. <3