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Spamality
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About the game
Spamality! is an arcade shooter set in a small steel arena with a red carpet. Two spawners in the top corners keep sending monsters at you, wave after wave, and you have a gun, a health bar and a mouse. The name is a twist on a word from a famous fighting game, and the author promises that it has nothing to do with it.
The trick is in the Spamality bar at the top of the screen. Every click fires a bullet and also adds to the bar, and so does every monster you defeat. When the bar fills you go up a level, and a higher level makes your bullets stronger, then more accurate and different in shape, and at the highest levels also slowly heals you. But the bar drains all the time, and the higher the level, the faster it drains, so you have to keep clicking, which is the whole game: you win by spamming, and you lose by stopping to think.
Between waves the monsters get tougher and more numerous, and the spawners speed up. The arena has a cross-shaped pillar in the middle to hide behind and to get trapped by. How many waves can you survive?
Spamality! was made for Open Jam 2018 by a single developer, liquidev (also known as iLiquid), and everything in it is his own work: the code, the sprites, the sounds and even the font.
Playing it here
The game was written for the LÖVE framework, and it runs in the browser compiled to WebAssembly. Click Play, then click once more in the game to begin. It needs a mouse: it is aimed and fired with it. After a game over, a click starts again from wave 1.
The picture is 128 by 128 pixels and scales up to fit the frame.
Controls
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| W, A, S, D | move |
| Mouse | aim |
| Left mouse button | fire (and raise the Spamality bar) |
A few things worth knowing
Click, do not hold. A bullet leaves with every click and no more, so quick repeated clicks are what raise the bar and the damage.
Keep moving. The monsters walk straight at you, and a dash around the central pillar often buys you a second to fire.
Do not let the bar empty. A low level means weak shots, and the bar drains faster at higher levels, so keep it fed and do not stop in a quiet moment.
Frequently asked questions
Is my progress saved? No. It is a short arcade game with no save.
Does it work on a phone? No, it needs a keyboard and a mouse.
Is it free? Yes. The code is free software (ISC and MIT licences) and the assets are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The source code of this build is available from this page.
Credits and licence
Spamality! was made by liquidev (iLiquid) for Open Jam 2018, with a text editor and the LÖVE framework, Aseprite for the sprites and Bfxr for the sounds. The code is under the ISC licence (the repository's LICENSE file is the MIT licence), and the art, the sounds and the font are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The game runs on the author's own small engine, lovejam, which is part of the source. The version served here is the original, without any changes; the complete source code is hosted alongside the game, and the licence texts are linked from this page.