Dread Dash: Rise of the Skeletal Horde

Dread Dash: Rise of the Skeletal Horde immerses you in a real-time strategy experience, placing you in the role of a necromancer desperately fleeing from an encroaching army.

Controls

Dread dash is mainly played with the mouse.

• Select individual units by clicking on them, or choose multiple units by holding down the mouse button while moving the cursor.
• Click the skeleton head to select all units, or the knight head to view the army's current location.
• Select the necromancer portrait to control it.

• Issue movement commands by right-clicking anywhere on the ground after selecting a unit, directing them to move in a straight line to the designated location.

You can move the camera using A and D, or press SPACE to recenter on the necromancer.

Gameplay 

Your objective is to evade the advancing army for as long as possible while summoning an army of skeletons to stall its progress.

To achieve this, you can destroy buildings by moving your skeletons nearby, then by starting a ritual if the necromancer is close enough.

• Houses and towers yield additional skeletons.
• Libraries offer permanent upgrades.

Skeletons directed towards the right automatically engage the army, aiding your survival.

Additionally, the necromancer possesses three powerful spells to aid your efforts:

• [Q] Fireball enables destruction of structures from a distance.
• [W] Teleportation swiftly send your skeletons to the battlefield or to move the necromancer further from the inquisition
• [E] Casting allows rituals to be initiated remotely without the necromancer's physical presence or to accelerate the ritual.

Skipping the cinematic will hide the tutorial

Changelog

• v0.1
  • Ludum Dare submission
• v0.1.1
  • Tweeked difficulty
  • Necromancer can teleport himself
  • Removed fonts errors
  • Fixed Z_layer for building
  • Force minimum library spawn 
• v0.1.2
  • Tweeked difficulty
    
  • Fixed QWE
• v0.1.3
  • Tweeked difficulty
  • Fixed Fullscreen
• v0.1.4
  • Difficulty changed
  • Added tutorial
  • Fixed bug with fireball
  • Balanced upgrades
  • Double summoning possible
• v0.1.5
  • Added left-click on the ground to deselect
  • Added speed scrolling ajustement
  • Added a skeleton summoned count
  • Added EASY mode
    
  • Teleportation VFX added
  • Teleportation changed

"I'll add a leaderboard at the end of the Jam, the original game stay on Ludum" 

"Im not touching the game again I promise" - ShinSam

"I lied" - ShinSam

Credits

• Shinsam: Programming
• Plume: Graphics, Sound, Music