Shot in the Dark

Shot in the Dark is a singleplayer action game, about a Wizard who is shooting ghosts. This game was made by myself in April-May 2020 for my Intro to Game Development class using Gamemaker Studio 2.

I was inspired to make this game by a mechanic I noticed while playing Minecraft. In Minecraft, there is a flying monster a “Phantom”, which swoops down from above to attack the player at night. I thought it would be interesting to create a game focused only on shooting at flying monsters in the dark.

One new thing I tried while making this game was to use particle effects, instead of sprites, to create the visuals for all the enemies and projectiles. 

The game's background music is by Mickael Blum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsMazCV47I

Other sound effects are from Freesound.org