Just fight pumpkins until you die

• Use the mouse to click the buttons to interact with the game.

• You must click the enemy you wish to attack

• You have to click the Candy button first before you can 'Eat Candy'. This was because originally there were going to be different kinds of Candies you can select but I forgot when I scrapped that feature that clicking just 'Eat Candy' by itself doesn't give the correct 'you need to select a candy' first message...

• Also, the candies overhealing your health lasts beyond the battle by design for balancing. The text was outdated from an earlier build and I forgot to change it... so just ignore that.

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This game was made during the period of 24th October 2023 to 28th October 2023, with around 13 hours of elapsed time tracked. It is my third game for a personal Game-A-Week challenge as well as my submission to Weak Sauce. The blog post for this game is here.

I chose this project as my beginner newbie starter introduction to creating turn-based combat systems. This is more of a learning project (my first time ever making turn-based combat stuff) than a polished full game, but it does have a gameplay loop and it is still kind of fun, but do adjust your expectations accordingly.

The gameplay is not super balanced or playtested, but I did spend a few hours tweaking it so that you can lose but it doesn't feel too unfair.

Don't be afraid to leave comments on bugs that are found. I may revisit this gameplay concept but a lot of the code needs to be refactored and organized... its really messy now.

I will be revisiting Turn Based Combat stuff in about a week or two from the release of this game here. Will add all the polish I missed, like sound effects and animations and also customizing the UI to not have the default aesthetic... that sort of thing.

For Weak SauceTheme, can we just pretend that 'Get Ready for Halloween' is on our 'To Do list' or something and hence count it? Haha.

Attributions:

The pumpkin sprite is from: https://soda-1.itch.io/free-32-x-32-halloween-icon-pack
The Phaser RexUI Plugin for the text box and buttons: https://phaser.io/news/2019/01/rexui-plugins