Useless!

In Useless!, you play as the lowly spy of an evil overlord. Your duties are to motivate the villain’s minions to work, spy on the hero of the land, and report your findings to your lord via messenger crow as flawlessly as possible, or risk facing your greatest fear: unemployment!

Controls: WASD for movement, Mouse for aiming, E for rally, Spacebar for smoke bomb. 

Avoid running into the Hero and their field of view. Keep the Hero in your field of view to collect intel for your Overlord while using the weak Oni Soldiers to distract them. The closer you get, the faster you spy. You can Rally the Oni to a location by pressing E. If the Oni destroy a House, you can pick up a Smoke bomb from the wreckage and use it to block the Hero's line of sight by pressing Spacebar. 

Made in Unity 2D for GMTK Game Jam 2023 (Theme: Roles Reversed).

Other licenses/tools: 

Organization: Trello, Google Suite 

Music: Ableton Live 10 

Art: Aseprite

CC Assets Used: Pathfinding code by aoiti, Kenney pixel art dungeon, Kenney pixel art town, Bird by ma9ici4n, Tapestry font by Google, Poof SFX by mendihola, Gas SFX by LamaMakesMusic

Cover image by Jake Indgin and Yoker Wan.