D. A-V. E.
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Developers
Deynum Studio - https://www.youtube.com/@Deynum
LazyTeaStudios - https://www.youtube.com/@LazyTeaStudios
Summary
Immerse yourself in a retro PC environment - eggOS, aiding an antivirus AI. Tasked with safeguarding the system, you must navigate a top-down shooter experience to combat and eradicate malware. Strategically destroy enemy viruses, dodge attacks, and employ digital weapons. The ultimate goal is to halt the malware's spread before it corrupts the core system.
How D.A-V.E was made!
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Game Contents
This Game was made for the Piratesoftware Jam 14 and therefore is a small prototype including; interactive dialog system, 1 top down shooter level & 1 boss fight arena.
The theme was "It's Spreading".
Controls
WASD - Move
Left click - Shoot
Play testers
Eloqi & Tsea (From Deynum's Discord Community)
Music Attribution
CarlosCarty - https://freesound.org/people/CarlosCarty/sounds/427513/
CRT Asset
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/crt-free-248066
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Comments
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if dave was a real anti virus, it would be fun but horrible.
Spoiler Warning
I love how the book icon opens to tell the story of D.A-V.E. What a fun Easter egg.
no way! someone actually went and read it! That's awesome!
I was pretty sure I made it too illegible for anyone to read, but I guess not
you can cheese the final boss by shooting it while its off screen
thanks! this helped me cause i was struggling
at least he said thank you
uhh the whole screen is filled with dave what do i do
The entire story is genius. Love the humor. The boss battle feels like a dance of precision and death, not to mention the boss keeps stepping on your toes
HINT FOR THE BOSS FIGHT, I'D RECOMMEND ONLY READING IF STUCK
For anyone stuck on the boss fight, try to stay in place and move around the map less. The shields rotate, so you can break them when they're facing you, and if you stay relatively still, most pointers will go in front of you.
bro boss battle so easy. All you hae to do is break one of those surrounding cubes, then go in its place and just spam shoot into the core.
annoying
I found the final battle kinda bullshitty cause bullets were just spawning out of nowhere and that's really frustrating. Other than that it was a fun little game
I think they come out of the spinning barriers
yup
Warning: Spoilers! Don't read on if you haven't finished the game.
D.A-V.E. is pretty narcissistic. Taking over my entire system just so he can vandalize my desktop with his face.
amazing shaders
Great Game
1: I was able to just stand beneath the boss without activating it to kill it
2: we need a second part where we kill DAVE
yeah we added that as a way to cheese it and see the ening as its a bit of a hard boss and even i struggle wiht it as im BAD xD
who knows, maybe that day will come
You need to nerf the Boss the bullets' are hard to dodge is such a small space.
yeahhhh, we made it tricky just as its a game jam, if we develop it further well make some easier bosses leadin up to it and include upgrades for the player
Please DO develop this further. That is the advised option.
Also, DAVE.
the bullets freaking teleport
What are you talking about, FreshWaffles3? Are you talking about bullets from offscreen enemies?
no I mean in the boss battle they move so fast that my monitor doesn't see them with my crappy refresh rate so to me it looks like the boss battle bullets teleport behind me, bounce on the wall and kill me
You can just cheese it by destroying one of the enemy boxes, destroying the enemy, and coming in close proximity to the boss and shooting through the opening.
Stopped by to play after watching the YT video. Fun story, good balance, overall really enjoyed. Great work guys!
Thank you so much!
The ricochet mechanic made this a fun yet challenging game to play
My favorite game of the jam. Great job!
Oh! That means a lot! thanks!
let me SCAN let me SCAN let me SCAN
Thank you for choosing the ADVISED option
I can't play it, I see the screen but not anything blue or red. Just the screen.
This is a pretty fun game to do quick
speedrun of D.A-V.E. 2:14
"This is not the advised option. Please choose the advised option."
So anyways, I didn't choose the advised option...
"LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAAAAAA4444AAAAA444AAAANNNNNNN"
LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAN LET ME SCAN
also I cheesed the boss by shooting it before I left the starting area because I noticed the screen shaking and found out my bullets were hitting it lol
edit:
Sorry I forgot to say this was a very cool game, I really liked the concept of it. Visuals were great!
awesome job you guys did well
Nice voice acting! Fun compelling game. The only thing that bothered me is that the camera following with a delay in certain condition make it hard too see where you are heading.
Overwall well polished neat experience.
Good job!
Thanks! Deynum really does have one of those voices ;) Yeah, i actually meant to update that but with us running around at the end we just ended up forgetting haha woops! We plan to update it with a couple little fixes once the jam is over to fix things like this though :D
Great job guys! Very fun game!
Thank you so much! :D
this is so cool!
Thanks!!! :D
Holy wow, this is some very neat visual design and implementation! Also really liked how the anti-virus got angry at me all the time I clicked no :D Very good job!
HAHA Thanks! Always fun to annoy D.A-V.E
is the name a 2001 reference? roles reversed lol
Not an intentional one xD
damn i really like it! love the atmosphere
just a think: you can bug the first boss shoting him from spawn until he dies (without activating the enemies)
Thanks! Were so glad you liked it!
(We actually did that on purpose to make sure that everyone can beat the boss to get to the ending 😉 A bit of a fail safe) got to love some 🧀 strats