improbable potions

- controls -

"arrow keys" or "WASD" - moving the player
mouse - aiming and firing (left click)

- goal -

find a rectangular hole with a ladder and walk to it. this signals the end of the dungeon!

- instructions -

while exploring, you will find potions that will grant you buffs or debuffs for your player stats shown on the left. these are: health & max health, move speed, bullet damage, bullet move speed, and bullet fire rate, from top to bottom.

simply walk over these potions and you will be granted their either helpful or annoying abilities!

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improbable potions is a 2D top-down dungeon-crawler-kinda thing where you play as a witch navigating through a very dangerous dungeon floor, equipped with only your magic spells and the mighty potions out from the bags of past adventurers and apprentices now on the cold dungeon floor... except that the labels have since faded away. oh well, why not try some?

this game was made mainly for the GMTK Game Jam 2022, but i also used it as an excuse to try my hand at actually making a 2D top-down dungeon-crawler-kinda thing. despite never playing one before (!!!), i think it looks nice. i guess it's more of a demo than a full, fleshed-out game, but i still enjoyed making it a lot.

and yes, i also kinda copied atic atac. and i haven't played that one yet either!

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credits:
"i pixel u" font - rodrigosrtz (dafont)
"Press Start 2P" font - codeman38 (dafont)
rosy-42 palette - PineappleOnPizza (lospec)
brackeys - source code snippets (or, rather, chunks of them. thank youu)

tools:
aseprite - artwork
jummbox (beepbox) - music
chiptone - sfx