Down the Drain (V2.4.1)

UPDATE NOTES (V2.4.0)

- Fixed an empty page of the guidebook

- Fixed some incorrect guidebook information

- Added a title page to the guidebook

- Added chapter hotkeys to the guidebook

- Fixed the new Mini-Boss attack glitching out if it was used twice or more in a row

- Fixed the Vorpal Blade being entirely nonfunctional (I somehow forgot to code that it actually gets better with stacks and never noticed after almost a year)

- Fixed menu music not playing properly

- Fixed variables being shown over the guidebook in Down the Well Survival

- Added a new song for Down the Well Survival

Minor Update V2.4.1 (17/9/24)

- Added a new song to the Down the Well mode

- Fixed the relic of Extraction not being compatible with Down the Well

- Fixed the 3D Pen not being compatible with Down the Well

KNOWN BUGS:

- Sometimes in the first room, going north sticks you into a wall and it totally breaks the game.  

- Also, when you hover over the artifacts, they sometimes don't say what they are. This is a scratch issue with the way the green flag works and unfortunately there is no way I can reliably fix it, but luckily both of these bugs can be easily bypassed by just clicking the green flag twice.

- When you first open the game, the menu music stutters for like a second. Also, when you start a run, it goes to 100% volume for a half second. I seriously have no idea how either of these happened because they randomly sprung up while I was developing entirely unrelated parts of the game.

STORY 

You are a treasure hunter with a 9 mm. You heard about a dark, dreary, and -- most importantly -- damp dungeon in the sewers beneath New York City that houses a giant diamond as well as a poopy-ton of monsters. Despite all this, you must get to the diamond alive and escape!

CONTROLS 

- WASD to move, SPACE to dash, Mouse to aim and shoot

- Q to interact with everything

- E to activate equipment

- F to use most Special Abilities

- P to access audio settings

- X to choose not to select an item from a chest, and to return to the game after winning

- T to show/hide what items you own

- R to open/close the Guidebook

- Arrows to flip through the item book, chapter hotkeys are provided on the first page

INSTRUCTIONS

Kill all the enemies in a room, loot the chest for an item, and move to another room. Rinse and repeat this 50 times without dying, and the 50th room is where you face Sorthos Prime, the final boss.

To enter Endless Mode, kill Sorthos Prime and enter through the top doorway.

CREDITS

GAMEPLAY:

-2D Gameplay inspired by Towel Fight 2

- Item systems inspired by Risk of Rain 2

MUSIC:

- All music by me, using the artist name HEROICIS. 

Menu music: "The Light" (Unreleased)

Part 1 music: "The Palace of the Dead"

Boss music: "The Temple of Evil (Revised)" (unreleased)

Part 2 + Endless music: "Reckoning"

Boss 2 music: "The Shadow"

Survival Room music: "Elation"

Wishing Well music: "Genesis"

Focus Room music: "The Lost Forest"

Special Ability Room music: "Into the Depths" (Unreleased)

Down the Well music: 

- "Apokalypsis" (Unreleased extended mix)

- "Destiny"