Update: New Mode for Monkey King - Five Elements Survival



In this update I made some significant changes to the game machanics along with some minor improvements in game art. 

When I first came up with the idea of this game during game jam, I wanted to make this game a level based puzzle game with pre-designed mazes. But because I only had two days to work with, and level designing is very tricky and time consuming, I had to change it to a randomly generated "survival" game. Now that I'm planing to expand this game and potentially release it on steam, this design is just not rich enough to make the game feels interesting. Therefore, I re-implemented the initial idea into a new mode.

Now the game has two modes in total: puzzle mode and survival mode. In the puzzle mode you'll be solving mazes by ultilzing the block movement and countering mechanic. In the "classic" survival mode, you will need to survive as many steps as you can as every move you make, fewer blocks become available.

Currently there are only 4 mazes for the puzzle mode, with only the core machanics to make use of. My next step is to throw in some small tools and skills so there are more stuff players can work with, to keep the game fun for more levels.

Files

MonkeyKing-Web-04_05_2025.zip Play in browser
24 days ago

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