BLOOD DRIVE GOLF

The zombie apocalypse is here, but golf must go on. Protect the golfers at all costs from the hostiles, or die trying!

Blood Drive Golf is a casual roguelite top-down shooter. It has autobattle by default but that can be disabled for a more old school experience. 

Most roguelite/roguelike games are full of wonderful ideas, but they almost all suffer from nightmare difficulty levels that are just too much for the average gamer (myself included). So I set off to make one that's a bit more relaxed, but with all the other good stuff included - procedural generation, permadeath, biomes, upgrades, unlocks, etc. It's all here... just a bit easier to beat than most of them! (Harder modes can be unlocked).

The HTML version is just a demo, mainly because the engine I'm using (TIC-80) doesn't support saving your progress in HTML mode, and there are a ton of unlocks (see below). Also the performance in HTML mode can stutter occasionally, especially in late game with tons of enemies and projectiles on screen at once. It is fine 99% of the time on my 3-year old gaming laptop, but it's really meant to be a gateway to the full version.

Download the full executable version for the optimal experience, and access to all content

Every hero has a unique weapon or augmentation that is exclusive to them. Beat the game with that hero to add their exclusive weapon/augmentation to the pool that all heroes can choose from. For example, only the engineer gets turrets, but once you beat the game with him, then all heroes will have access to turrets on the augmentation screen.

Full list of unlockable content:

• 6 unlockable heroes (9 total)
• 6 unlockable augmentations (31 total)
• 3 unlockable weapons (9 total)
• 2 unlockable difficulty modes (3 total)
• 3 additional biomes (9 total)

How to play

Like many roguelites, you fight enemies and get upgrades (mods/augmentations) after each wave, but you also have a team of mercenaries to help you. They slowly respawn after death but that be can improved with mods. You can reroll your mod options if you don't like them by sacrificing one of your teammates, because the currency in Blood Drive Golf is BLOOD! One of them will immediately die and have their head on a pike for you to ponder for the remainder of the map (see screenshot below). You can reroll as many times as you have teammates, but each time it costs you one.

Most upgrades are shared with all friendly NPCs (including golfers), but a few are only for the player.

Golfers will fight back when attacked, but otherwise are docile and just want to play some golf!

Controls

Controls change dynamically as inputs occur.

• Any mouse movement or left-clicks will swap to mouse controls.
• Pressing any arrow key will swap to keyboard controls.
• Pressing the d-pad on a connected gamepad controller will swap to gamepad controls.

Mouse + keyboard (default)

• WASD - move up/left/down/right
  
• Mouse - aim
  • When auto-battle is on, the cursor will hide after 1 second of inactivity, and targeting/shooting will happen automatically. Use the mouse to override auto-battle and aim/fire yourself, but it will resume again after 1 second of idle.
• Left click - shoot/attack
  
• Q - swap weapon (hold to drop current weapon)
  
• Shift/Space - dash
• E / P / Return - preferences

Keyboard

• Arrow keys - move up/left/down/right
• Z - shoot/attack
  • By default, you will strafe while holding down attack. This can be disabled in the preferences menu.
• X - swap weapon (hold to drop current weapon)
• Shift/Space - dash
• P / Return - preferences

Gamepad

• D-pad - move up/left/down/right
• A - shoot/attack
  • By default, you will strafe while holding down attack. This can be disabled in the preferences menu. Unfortunately, the TIC-80 game engine does not support twin-stick mode for aiming.
• B - swap weapon (hold to drop current weapon)
• X - dash
• Y - preferences