Potato Reaper

IT IS PLAYABLE WITH KEYBOARD AND MOUSE!

The Game

Ever wanted to shoot an actual crossbow? In Potato Reaper you can! Climb the leaderboard and become number one by shooting down incoming waves of evil flying potatoes. See how long you can survive in this fast-paced arcade shooter.  

High Concept

Potato Reaper is an arcade shooter game that rewards players with quick reactions. How do you shoot? You use an actual crossbow: aim at the screen and reload the crossbow to shoot! The goal is to survive and score as many points as possible by reaping potatoes. As you advance through waves of incoming flying potatoes, the game gets progressively harder, but you also earn experience points which makes you stronger!  

Gameplay

In Potato Reaper, you have two goals: to survive as long as possible and score as many points as possible. To do so, players need to have quick reaction times and accurate aim. While the game gets progressively harder, the players have the ability to gain XP with each kill, making them stronger. Can you keep up with the pace of the game?

Game Modes

Choose between the two game modes! Pick "Play" to play the classic game which utilizes reloading, along with leveling up and reloading shield at each wave. Or, pick "Survival" that focus more on faster shooting without any shield and level up.

Controls

The game is played with a physical input device normally.

For PC:

• Mouse to Aim
• K to Reload
• O to Shoot

Additional Information

This is an arcade game made by a small group of 6 for Gotland Game Conference 2022 and for our Arcade course at Uppsala University. 

We had 7 weeks to make the game with no prior arcade game development experience.

The Crossbow

Team:

Team Crossbow

Faruk Osmanağaoğlu - Lead Designer and Producer - Faruk's itch page

André Fuladianpour Dahl - QA and Input Design - André's itch page

Iliana Despoina Tompra - Graphics - Iliana's itch page

Iver Adrian Bhutani - Graphics - Iver's itch page

Dani Waked - Programming - Dani's itch page

Jacob Bekele Jansson - Programming - Jacob's itch page