A bit of flavor to help better understand what this game is about: Well, the name "Wormfare" is a play on words "worm" and "warfare", so expect plenty of gunfights, as this is a 3-character tactical puzzle-shooter.
Albeit being written in haste, the plot of this game is a meta-plot that tells, in allegoric form, a story from real life, about three naughty gamers who were exiled from a certain online roleplaying game for doing naughty things.
This game offers a different perspective on the event surrounding a ban of a troublesome player, presented as a villain. In the Eiradirian franchise, you step into the villain's shoes, and from that point of view, you are the liberating hero, and everyone who plays the game by the rules are slaves to the almighty oppressor. (Creators of this game do not promote, support, and/or endorse hacking and/or terrorism in real life :))))
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Abilities in the game that each character has represent the actual abilities we were able to give ourselves in that other game.
Each character has a unique set of abilities.
Konrad is the tough and mobile fighter. He has more health than others, and an inherent ability to parkour up the walls. His Active ability (T) - is a sword, allowing him to deal very swift justice in close range, and also boosting his jump height if you time it right. It has a cooldown. His Passive ability (G) - is a short duration personal armor buff, that makes him even tougher, allowing him to tank through a single force field (which kills other instantly) and only take half damage. Also has a cooldown.
Blay is a utility unit. He has decent mobility in terms of jumping, by using his shotgun to recoil him off the ground. As long as the ground is flat and you got the geometry right, it's easy. His Active ability (T) - is team teleportation, which lets him "summon" the other two instantly to his location. Cooldown. His Passive ability (G) - is an instant gravity field, which has dual functionality: first, it alters gravity around blay, letting him jump even higher (stacks with shotgun jump to utterly rediculous results), secondly, it acts as a single time ballistic shield against energy cannons, but it's useless against lead bullets.
The Romanian - crowd control / ranged sniper dps. Limited in jumping mobility, this unit is a dichotomy. He has highest gun range and packs the biggest gun, the machinegun. He is fairly weak on health and hates being upclose, but has a potent close range ability, that forces him to go upclose to use it. His Active ability (T) - romanian charm, which pacifies enemies around him, causing them not to return fire for a limited time, allowing Romanian or other teammates to kill them off. His Passive ability (G) - is a limited duration, on-cooldown rocket boots, letting him effectively fly for 3 seconds.
A bit about the antagonists: they are all mostly inside jokes and easter eggs. One particular admin is a pro skier in real life, so he has a thematically proper level :) Another admin is recognizable by his unique hairstyle, I'll just leave that there. And also the bioresearch lab has a cameo of Rude Bear and his creator at VorpalGames, as he was part of this story in real life, it's where we met.
Some levels can seem really hard, but trust us, they are beatable. Enjoy!
LD29 — Beneath the Surface (1)
Eiradirian Wormfare by blay09 2014-04-29T20:52:00
A bit of flavor to help better understand what this game is about: Well, the name "Wormfare" is a play on words "worm" and "warfare", so expect plenty of gunfights, as this is a 3-character tactical puzzle-shooter.
Albeit being written in haste, the plot of this game is a meta-plot that tells, in allegoric form, a story from real life, about three naughty gamers who were exiled from a certain online roleplaying game for doing naughty things.
This game offers a different perspective on the event surrounding a ban of a troublesome player, presented as a villain. In the Eiradirian franchise, you step into the villain's shoes, and from that point of view, you are the liberating hero, and everyone who plays the game by the rules are slaves to the almighty oppressor.
(Creators of this game do not promote, support, and/or endorse hacking and/or terrorism in real life :))))
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Abilities in the game that each character has represent the actual abilities we were able to give ourselves in that other game.
Each character has a unique set of abilities.
Konrad is the tough and mobile fighter. He has more health than others, and an inherent ability to parkour up the walls.
His Active ability (T) - is a sword, allowing him to deal very swift justice in close range, and also boosting his jump height if you time it right. It has a cooldown.
His Passive ability (G) - is a short duration personal armor buff, that makes him even tougher, allowing him to tank through a single force field (which kills other instantly) and only take half damage. Also has a cooldown.
Blay is a utility unit. He has decent mobility in terms of jumping, by using his shotgun to recoil him off the ground. As long as the ground is flat and you got the geometry right, it's easy.
His Active ability (T) - is team teleportation, which lets him "summon" the other two instantly to his location. Cooldown.
His Passive ability (G) - is an instant gravity field, which has dual functionality: first, it alters gravity around blay, letting him jump even higher (stacks with shotgun jump to utterly rediculous results), secondly, it acts as a single time ballistic shield against energy cannons, but it's useless against lead bullets.
The Romanian - crowd control / ranged sniper dps.
Limited in jumping mobility, this unit is a dichotomy. He has highest gun range and packs the biggest gun, the machinegun. He is fairly weak on health and hates being upclose, but has a potent close range ability, that forces him to go upclose to use it.
His Active ability (T) - romanian charm, which pacifies enemies around him, causing them not to return fire for a limited time, allowing Romanian or other teammates to kill them off.
His Passive ability (G) - is a limited duration, on-cooldown rocket boots, letting him effectively fly for 3 seconds.
A bit about the antagonists: they are all mostly inside jokes and easter eggs.
One particular admin is a pro skier in real life, so he has a thematically proper level :)
Another admin is recognizable by his unique hairstyle, I'll just leave that there.
And also the bioresearch lab has a cameo of Rude Bear and his creator at VorpalGames, as he was part of this story in real life, it's where we met.
Some levels can seem really hard, but trust us, they are beatable. Enjoy!