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Cast Away! (MUFL) (mufl)
Banished from a magical party, you find yourself marooned on an island... MUFL is a code name, so the game won't be lost among all the similarly named entries After I looked up what exactly "castaway" means, I got to the dictionary entry for "cast". It turns out you can cast so many different things! I decided to make a minigame each for a few things you can cast. Give the player options, and let them cast away! For even more theme, the game takes place on an island with the protagonist as a castaway. Cast for fish One obvious thing you can "cast" on an abandoned island is a fishing line. Here, it's a way to get food (needed for each action), and small amounts of other resources. Cast Dice A dice minigame works as well, but how to get dice on an abandoned island? Catch cube-shaped boxfish, and throw those? You can throw multiple dice, and a pair of the same symbol will give you a bonus. That's a good way to get more of the Magic resource. Cast Iron If the player is a magician, they can melt iron and pour it into a suitably shaped hole to create an object. The holes are dug by mind-controlled worms, steered by a deck of magic cards – that makes this a bit of a puzzle. If you make more items than fit your inventory, you can—wait for it—cast one away before making a new one! Cast a Shadow To get some attention, a castaway should write HELP in large, visible letters. In this case, the letters can be projected on a rock wall by a fire! Should be plenty visible at night. That determines what knid of shaped you need to cast in iron: the letters H, E, L and P. Cast Arcane Missile And of course, one can cast magic spells! Teleporting would be easy, let's use something to attract attention. (Originally, you were supposed to fish out a bottle with instructions, but I didn't have time to implement that. Please excuse the plot hole.) Controls Use your keyboard (only!): SPACE / ENTER to select/advance/confirm ESC / BACKSPACE to cancel/exit/undo ARROWS to move (fishing, shadow) NUMBERS to select (main menu, dice, iron, shadow) LETTERS to select (shadow, item castaway) Saving The game saves state to a persistent JSON file, and will continue when re-started. The location of the file is written to the console.
The Purrtectors (Rubber Duckies)
You play as a house cat suddenly thrown out of his home. Stranded in an alley all alone, he must now fight his way through a hoard of cat-haters or die. You meet three more cats in the next level. You can control each of these cats and switch between them. Each cat has a set of special abilities You Dash Shoot single bullets Sneaky Become invisible Sneak kill when invisible and near an enemy Shoot single bullets Support Heal a selected cat Throw grenades Heavy Shoot multiple rounds of bullets Has more health All cats can scratch to hurt enemies from a short distance

Banished from a magical party, you find yourself marooned on an island...

MUFL is a code name, so the game won't be lost among all the similarly named entries

After I looked up what exactly "castaway" means, I got to the dictionary entry for "cast".
It turns out you can cast so many different things!
I decided to make a minigame each for a few things you can cast. Give the player options, and let them cast away!
For even more theme, the game takes place on an island with the protagonist as a castaway.

Cast for fish

One obvious thing you can "cast" on an abandoned island is a fishing line. Here, it's a way to get food (needed for each action), and small amounts of other resources.

Cast Dice

A dice minigame works as well, but how to get dice on an abandoned island? Catch cube-shaped boxfish, and throw those?

You can throw multiple dice, and a pair of the same symbol will give you a bonus. That's a good way to get more of the Magic resource.

Cast Iron

If the player is a magician, they can melt iron and pour it into a suitably shaped hole to create an object.

The holes are dug by mind-controlled worms, steered by a deck of magic cards – that makes this a bit of a puzzle.

If you make more items than fit your inventory, you can—wait for it—cast one away before making a new one!

Cast a Shadow

To get some attention, a castaway should write HELP in large, visible letters. In this case, the letters can be projected on a rock wall by a fire! Should be plenty visible at night.

That determines what knid of shaped you need to cast in iron: the letters H, E, L and P.

Cast Arcane Missile

And of course, one can cast magic spells! Teleporting would be easy, let's use something to attract attention.

(Originally, you were supposed to fish out a bottle with instructions, but I didn't have time to implement that. Please excuse the plot hole.)

Controls

Use your keyboard (only!):

SPACE / ENTER to select/advance/confirm
ESC / BACKSPACE to cancel/exit/undo
ARROWS to move (fishing, shadow)
NUMBERS to select (main menu, dice, iron, shadow)
LETTERS to select (shadow, item castaway)

Saving

The game saves state to a persistent JSON file, and will continue when re-started.

The location of the file is written to the console.

The Purrtectors (Rubber Duckies)

You play as a house cat suddenly thrown out of his home. Stranded in an alley all alone, he must now fight his way through a hoard of cat-haters or die.

You meet three more cats in the next level. You can control each of these cats and switch between them.

Each cat has a set of special abilities

You

Dash

Shoot single bullets

Sneaky

Become invisible

Sneak kill when invisible and near an enemy

Shoot single bullets

Support

Heal a selected cat

Throw grenades

Heavy

Shoot multiple rounds of bullets

Has more health

All cats can scratch to hurt enemies from a short distance