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Dungeon Squish
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About the game
Dungeon Squish is a short action game about a slime with a cushy job. You are the Dissolver, a big green blob who lives in a dank dungeon and keeps adventurers away from a necromancer's lair. Lately too many of them have slipped past, and the necromancer is not happy. The game opens with a quick, funny scene between the two of them, and then you are sent back to work.
The idea of every fight is in the name. Your slime is a single wobbling shape that slides along the floor, and it can jump and come down hard on whatever is below it. A crowd of little skeletons, many of them archers, marches in from the arches along the wall, and the arrows they fire eat into your slime. There are fifty of them in all, and the skull counter in the corner shows how many are left. Squash every one before the green bar at the top (the Dissolver's slime) runs out, and the necromancer finally gets some peace.
It was made by Wandering Door Games for a community game jam whose theme was "Limited Lifetime", and it is as short as that suggests: quick runs, easy to learn, hard to master, and good for "just one more try".
Playing it here
Click Play and wait a moment while the game loads (about 14 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). Click inside the game once so that it receives the keyboard. The opening dialogue has a Skip Intro button in the corner. After that, choose Play in the menu; a short card tells you the one trick you need: jump into the air, then hold squish to slam down on your foes.
There are no save slots, because a run is short. The game needs a keyboard.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| A, D or Left, Right arrows | move |
| W or Up arrow | jump |
| S or Down arrow (hold) | squish: slam down on what is below you |
| Esc or P | pause |
| Mouse | click the menu buttons and the dialogue |
The Settings screen lets you change the keys and the volume.
Tips
Squish from the air. The slam is strongest after a jump, so jump first and hold the squish key as you land on a skeleton.
Dodge the arrows. Archers fire from a distance. A quick hop over a shot costs less slime than trying to out-tank it.
Keep moving. A slime that stands still in the middle of the room is an easy target. Slide toward the group that is closest to piling up.
Watch the bar. The green bar at the top is your lifetime. Take the risky slam only when you have enough left to recover.
FAQ
Is there a story? A small one: the opening scene sets up the Dissolver and the angry necromancer, there is a short scene when you win, and the rest is the fight.
Does it work on a phone? No. It needs a keyboard, so it is best on a computer.
Is it free to share? Yes. The code is under the GNU Affero GPL, the artwork under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, and the sounds, music and fonts are credited below.
Credits and licence
Dungeon Squish was made by Wandering Door Games for the Stop Killing Games community jam. The code is under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later and the original artwork under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The game runs on Godot Engine 4.5.1 (MIT).
- Sound "Bow & Arrow Shot" by dorkster, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Source: OpenGameArt.
- Font "Skeleboom" by Artisano, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Source: 1001 Fonts.
- Font "Double Feature" by David Shetterly, SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Music "Battle Theme A" by cynicmusic and "Boss Battle #2" by nene, CC0.
- Sounds by Zane Little Music, Independent.nu and RandomUser, CC0.
Changes in this version: exported for the web, under a neutral name (the authors reserve the original one) with the title drawn as text, without the studio's logo and icons (the authors reserve those), and with the renderer set to the one the web supports. The licence texts, the complete source and the build script are linked from this page.