Total Corruption

Created in 1 month for Metroidvania Month Jam 2023.

• Magpie: Programming, Art
• Rick: Programming, Art
• Eurus: Programming, AI
• Cal: Audio
• Wes: Design

You awaken inside a weird city, linked by transporters and oozing in filth. The world has become corrupted, by The Great Corruptor. It seems it's down to you to clean up this city, removing the corruption and avoiding becoming too corrupted yourself... but the temptation of power is rather strong...

Defeat the 3 bosses and purify the 4 areas of the world... Or risk it all for the ultimate power of corruption.

Weapon Upgrades:

• Revolver - Fires heavy bullets. Gets faster with corruption.
• Laser - Use this upgrade to complete mirror & switch puzzles. Deals damage when you reach a certain corruption threshold.
• EMP - Takes out most electronic objects, most notably turrets and guardians (those horrible flying tentacle monsters)
• Hack - Used to switch transporter lines, turn ordinary street lamps into explosive mines and to hack explosive drones (between three states; follow; stay still and patrol)
• Mystery Upgrade - Appears at a certain threshold of corruption. Takes corruption away from corrupted objects.

Bosses:

• Laser Boss - Drops the EMP upgrade. You can find this guy in the bottom right of the Rooftop Art Museum, furthest East of the map past the first laser puzzle. Defeat it by reflecting its laser back onto his protective and shoot it in its gooey brain.
• Protective Cube Boss - Drops the HACK upgrade. You will find this one South of the starting spawn area, down the corrupted transporter guarded by a turret. To get past these obstacles, you'll need the EMP upgrade and to have purified the purifier with the laser puzzle. (Maybe if you're corrupted... there may be a short cut with a certain upgrade). Once you're here, open up the robotic shell with EMPs. Then shoot the orb inside to deal damage.
• Centipede Boss - Drops nothing, but still worth it. You will find this one by finding the transporter with two lines. Hack the transporter to be taken up to another blocker. Hack the drones, position them and then fire to open the laser gate and make your way to the boss room. Once inside, hack the lights and drones to deal damage to each segment of the centipede. The centipede won't harm you, but the turrets around the arena will, so be sure to use your EMPs to stop them from causing too much trouble.
• Final Boss... [Information Redacted]