Hellstatt

Description

Hellstatt is a 2D action platformer with comic elements and fast paced combat. The player has the ability of controling four different playable characters, each with their unique playstyle, by switching from one to another in real time.

It was developed by four Erasmus exchange students for the Game Design and Development 1 course at the Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria.

Story

A group of Erasmus exchange students are visiting Hallstatt, an iconic location in Austria, when they are attacked by monsters of unknown origins. They decide to help the inhabitants and defeat the monsters, but they first need to find the source from which the monsters are comming from...

Join our brave students and help them discover the sectets of Hellstatt!

Controls

Movement

- Arrow keys to move

Combat

- Left Ctrl - basic attack

- A - skill 1

- S - skill 2

- D - skill 3

- W and E - Omar's special skills

Switch characters

- Q - press and hold the Q key, use arrow keys to select character and release Q to swap

Characters

Aatu

Special attribute: Good-lookingness - he can charge it with Skill 2 to a maximum of 3 charges. He can then consume these charges to empower his skills or use Skill 3.

- Basic attack - shoots a witty comment at the enemy

- Skill 1 - plays the synth guitar and shoots a burst of musical notes at the enemy

- Skill 2 - brushes his hair and raises his good-lookingness to empower his skills 

- Skill 3 - consumes 3 charges of good-lookingness and shouts an overcharged witty comment to deal massive damage to sorounding enemies

Anei

Special attribute: Rage - gains rage when attacking enemies. When full, starts raging and gains a damage boost. Rage also starts depleting rapidly if no attack has been made for some time. Because of years of raging, he is slower than the other characters.

- Basic attack - punches forward to damage enemies in close range.

- Skill 1 - executes an uppercut and deals heavy damage to enemies in front.

- Skill 2 - plays a heavy guitar riff and gives all characters 20% damage protection.

- Skill 3 - can only activate when raging. Consumes all of remaining rage, hammers his guitar into the ground to deal massive area damage.

Olli

Special attribute: Stamina - consumed by using attacking. Regenerates over time. Olli also runs faster and jumps higher than other characters, but looses this bonus when his stamina is depleted.

- Basic attack - kicks a football ball, which bounces off flat surfaces and enemies to damage them.

- Skill 1 - performs a sliding tackle to damage enemies he  passes through.

- Skill 2 - does some push-ups to boost the special attribute gain of all characters by 20%.

- Skill 3 - consumes all the stamina and kicks a football ball packed with explosives into the air, which bounces and explodes upon each bounce.

Omar

Special attribute: Supplies - whenever an enemy is killed, there is a chance that a supply pack may be dropped. Only Omar can pick them up and can use them to craft hand made explosives, such as bombs and mines.

- Basic attack - slashes enemies in front with a pencil.

- Skill 1 - shoots a harpoon with a harpoon gun, which pushes back and damages enemies.

- Skill 2 - uses his medkit to heal all characters by a flat amount.

- Skill 3 - uses the flamethrower to blast flames in a large area in front and damages multiple enemies.

- Special 1 - consumes 25 supplies and crafts a bomb that explodes after some time, dealing area damage

- Special 2 - consumer 50 supplies and crafts a mine that explodes when enemies step on it, dealing huge area damage