The Legions of Grenda

Sorry the game is so empty. I had a busy weekend but still wanted to submit at least something after backing out last time. In hindsight I probably should've gone for a simpler concept. Anyway, I'm glad you liked what was there.

About the keys: The first one is just there to show how keys (and locked doors) work. The four rooms with keys close to the central room are there to introduce picking up stuff (including keys) with your boomerang, as well as to show that different coloured keys open different coloured doors. You can take any one of the four routes first so I had to repeat a similar setup four times. The rest of the keys are in rooms I didn't get time to add stuff to, so yes they're fairly pointless.

Yeah, I think being able to hold the boomerang in place could have been an interesting mechanic. Unfortunately you only ever need to use it once with the current state of the game.

The screen transitions were definitely an interesting challenge. I've done games before where the screen changes instantly (using a room for each screen) so I thought I would give it a go. It actually uses a single room, though that does lead to its own challenges such as manually deactivating and resetting objects depending on where the view is focused.

Thanks. "just scratched the surface of your ideas" is pretty accurate. I had plenty of plans for different boomerang interactions to fill the empty rooms, I just ran out of time implement them.

Yep, the Zelda ripoff thing wouldn't be complete without the dungeon map making an image. I'm sorry there wasn't more, hopefully I'll be able to make a complete version some time.

As I mentioned in the description the game is unfinished. Generally when I make a game with a single large world I like to design the overall layout first and fill in the details later. It's just that this time I didn't get very far with the second part.