Mutant on the loose!

We are a team of seven students from Macromedia University Cologne and we have created this little game called “Mutant On The Loose!“ for the Macromedia Game Jam 2023. It is a 2D-Platformer Jump ‘n‘ Run game with fighting elements. Our theme for the Game Jam was “I Never Asked For This“. 

In our game you play as Subject 4-37 who is held captive at a shady laboratory which is researching different mutagenes to inject people with causing super-human mutations. The protagonist doesn’t know how he got there just that he needs to break free. While trying to escape you come across the doctors that are responsible, security guards that want to stop you from fleeing, deadly spikes, poisonous acid and many different mutagenes that you can inject yourself with. But be careful! These powers come with a price. A mutagene may help you in some cases but can also hinder you. 

These are the controls:

Move Left & Right – A, D or Arrow Keys

Jump – Space 

Attack – F 

Dash – Shift 

These are the possible mutagenes you can collect: (Sadly, the mutagene mechanic is not implemented in the game as we had some problems in production. We hope to update the game soon.)

Double Edge – do double damage but take double damage

Berserker – do more damage but less HP

Vampirism – life steal but do less damage

Leather Skin – take less damage but less attack speed

Turtle Life – higher max HP but less movement speed

Froggyjump – double jump, no negative

Go Fast – more movement speed but slide on ice effect

Smaller – character gets smaller 

Spearthrough – character gets dash movement

Our group consists of:

Luka Lauser, Dominika Lomnicka, Alexander Saveliev, Amea Roldan Romer, Philipp Tissen, Alexander Kaloh & Alex Jay Gotsche

Have fun with our game!