The Samurai

You were ambushed in the middle of the night. Four snipers have you on their aim, and all you have is your trustworthy sword, and a cinematic music on the back of your head. Are you good enough to ricochet the incoming bullets and survive the night?

The Game

• Hidden snipers will fire bullets at you periodically. You have to use your sword to ricochet the bullets and save yourself.
• You can use your Arrow keys or AWSD to swing your sword in the chosen direction. If your sword hits a bullet, the bullet will ricochet back and will not hit you.
• Every time a bullet hits you, you will suffer 15 damage. When you deflect a bullet, you will heal 3 HP.
• Your score will increase faster and faster if you can have long chains of deflecting bullets without getting hit.
• There is so much tension that everyone can hear a dramatic music on their heads. The Sniper will unconsciously fire their bullets on the beat of that music.
• Your goal is to survive long enough for help to arrive. You will sense that you are safe when you can no longer hear the dramatic music. So, survive until the music ends!

Observation: having the bullets synchronized with the audio on the web version is very hard. There could be a delay due to many reasons. For a smoother experience, you can download the Windows executable file.

Why I Made This

This was made over the span of 3 hours as part of Trijam #358, whose theme was "Ricochet".

Art

• Hypnobius — tileset used for the 'map': https://hypnobius.itch.io/dark-swamp-pack

Music

• Matthew Pablo — in‑game track: https://opengameart.org/content/arclight-epic-orchestralrock-soundtrack

Sound effects

• EZduzziteh - sound effect when getting hurt: https://opengameart.org/content/hurt-sound-effects