Orbarella - The Dream Soother

About the Game

As night time descends upon the city and its residents fall asleep, many are plagued by nightmares which leave them feeling scared, depressed, anxious, frustrated, angry, or in pain...

You play as Orbarella; a wizard armed with a magical cannon! Fire orbs of healing towards the residents as they dream to soothe their nightmares. Act fast to keep the nightmare level of the city below the red zone or it's game over! Soothe as many dreams as you can before the sun comes up.

There are three levels, each progressively difficult. Can you survive all three nights?

Controls:

A / D           - Left & right movement
Q / E           - Rotate the cannon
Up / Down - Cycle orb colour
Spacebar   - Hold to charge the cannon, release to fire the orb
P                 - Pause / Unpause the game

Development Details

I've recently started teaching myself game development and this is my second small practice project, created with the MonoGame framework.  I've been posting videos on YouTube from the start of my journey, just click on any of the devlogs at the bottom of this page or visit my channel: Rheyan's Gaming.

GitHub Source Code: Base Project and Orbarella project.

Why two projects? See this post about abstracting common code.

Credits

• MonoGame Framework

Artwork

• City Backdrop adapted from this pack
• The houses from this pack by heyitswidmo
• Cannon sprites by pedrogn
• Wizard sprite by Calciumtrice
• Emojis by Fava Beans
• Orb sprites inspired by this post on Reddit
• Cannon charge progress bar by antrixglow98
• UI Panels adapted from a sprite in this pack by Kenney
• Main font is Obra Letra 

Sound

• Intro Music - Empty Streets by Tim Beek
• Cannon movement - adapted from rolling luggage
• Cannon rotation - adapted from washing machine crank
• City ambience - combination of these four sound files
• Charge the orb - adapted from Charge Up 2
• Fire the orb - adapted from x_explosion2
• Soothe a nightmare - adapted from Bubble pop