The world has already ended.

Follow the defeated leader of the Animalman rebellion, Brunkolt the Rabbit, as he chases hopeless escape across ever more dire straits.


Features

  • 4 different levels of increasing difficulty
  • 5 kinds of units
  • A story that will never feel good
  • Cute pixel animal people!

Tips

  • Keep Brunkolt, your main hero, alive no matter what!
  • Your other units don't heal between levels, so manage their health carefully
  • It can be advantageous to let enemies initiate first contact
  • Attack someone from outside their attack range and they cannot hit back
  • Learn the advantage triangles!

About

This started as a bit more ambitious of a project - I had intended to add in active recruitment/conversion of enemies, more strategic depth, a world to explore. Needless to say, I overscoped! So, I've wrapped it up early and put it up with no option to pay.

I also learned as I went that this is not a genre I really like, in that I couldn't even get myself to finish its inspiration (Fire Emblem 1 - Shadow Dragon & Blade of Light). Regardless, I've wanted to implement tile-area based movement for a long time, so I'm satisfied having excised a bit of that demon.

I like what I was getting at with the art style, but I also think that (for now!) it was a bit beyond my capabilities. I still think it ended up cute!

Thanks for playing, I think there's still a neat little 5-10 minutes here. Have a great day!


~ dedicated to one of my very best friends, Ben Nutter

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