Creature Testing, Inc.

This game is still largely unfinished, but here’s the design statement:

Creature Training, Inc. is a top-down shooter where you have to navigate through several screen-sized levels, shooting and punching enemy monsters and joining together with pieces of the monsters that you defeat. Need a gun? Punch a robot and you can attach its gun to your body, but only if you have room!

You play as a new creation in a deep, dark laboratory, a la Frankenstein, and you are surrounded by monsters coming to tear you apart. Defeat them with punches and dashes, take their organs, and join them together with your chest cavity to use their abilities and become the best creature for whatever you’re up against, whether it’s obstacles, enemies of different types, or maze-like passages.

This game drew inspiration from the satisfaction of the crafting mechanic in Minecraft, and took Enter The Gungeon, Carrion, and The Binding of Isaac as inspiration for the gameplay and aesthetics.

Our team plans on continuing to develop this project into a working prototype.