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NODACHI NO MICHI

Take control of Michi, a merciless shinobi trapped in an endless corridor filled with the endless souls of the enemies she has made her victims.

One Button Gameplay

Michi can be controlled with just the Space Button/Left Mouse Click.

When the action button is pressed and there are no enemies in sight Michi will jump as long as she's standing on the floor, but once an enemy enters Michi's sight her blinding rage will only allow her to attack.

Flow and Score

As you defeat enemies or collect coins your score will increase, filling up the Flow Meter. Every time the Flow Meter rises Michi will speed up.

There are 3 ways to increase your score faster:

  • Rising the Flow Meter will add a multiplier to your score.
  • Slashing the enemies to the rhythm will double the score you get from them.
  • Chaining Air Attacks will add 0.1(up to 1.0) to each strike until you touch the ground.

Achievements and Stories

This game counts with 4 stories with 4 chapters each, all of them hidden behind one of the 16 achievements. Unlock them as you go or aim for one specifically in each run, and experience the story through a path that's only yours(because I doubt enough people will play this for 2 of them to read it all in the same order lol).

As you unlock the achievements you'll also receive speed gems. Equipping them from the achievements menu will make you reach high speeds faster.

The game also comes with an option to unlock all the achievements and speed gems, for those who can't handle the gameplay but want to see the story reach its conclusion. Once you use it the game won't save your progress, so if you get a new high score and don't wanna lose it make sure to take a screenshot!

Known Bugs

Sometimes when you start a run the music's timing will be off. I have no idea why this happens and I haven't been able to replicate it, but it doesn't happen often. If you start a run and the music sounds off just let the enemies take Michi and it should fix itself in the next run.

Words from the dev

Wow, that sure took more time than I expected haha... But it's finally over... not because it's done, but because I reached my limit and I want to work on my next project.

There are a lot of ideas I never got to implement and a lot of changes I would like to make, but the original intention for this game was to make something simple and fast with no story to take my head off my previous(and also next) project, but in the end, I think I spent more time writing and editing the story than making the actual game... and I'm not even that satisfied with the story, every time I read it I find new things I want to change! And that's why I'm closing this project, because I know that if I don't stop it now I'll keep working on it for another year or two.

What's Next

I don't think I'll make any updates since I would like to remake it from scratch someday.

I also have more ideas for both games starring Michi and stories in this world, but those gameplay ideas don't have much room for story and those story ideas would need a lot of time and resources to be made into games I'm not willing to invest right now.

For this project I did everything, from programming to music, but it's clear to me now that I don't enjoy making them equally. I'll keep making art and music for my projects for as long as I need to, but I want to improve as a writer and designer so I'll try to avoid investing too much time in those.

If you're reading this then thank you, idk if you're about to play the game, if you've already beaten it or if you've decided to play something else after reading this but you gave me your time and I'm thankful for that. My next project will be a visual novel of a children's tale I wrote years ago, It'll be nothing like this one but I would appreciate it if you gave it a try once it's done! Until then, goodbye.

StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows, Android, HTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorPoruasecas
GenreAction
TagsRunner

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Pretty cool man!