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.

The game isn't finished - there's no win condition yet (so the sun doesn't actually come up, the game just plays forever until you lose!) and I also want to implement 3 different difficulty levels and perhaps put in some kind of intro sequence. 

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

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
• Title font is Obra Letra 

Sound

• Cannon movement (rolling luggage) by distressbear
• Cannon rotation by mono832
• City ambience - combination of these four sound files