8-Colors Star Guardians
Oh no! Evil alien monsters have attacked Earth (yet again)! But fret not, because the Star Guardians, an elite group of fighters led by the hot-blooded Rhea, is going to kick their backs back to outer space!
An extended version of the game is coming to Steam soon!
If you liked this game, please wishlist it now! Every little bit of support helps:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2483150/8Colors_Star_Guardians/
8-Colors Star Guardians Plus will feature a full second, more linear story chapter with 13 boss groups and a Free Play mode, plus unlockable costumes and one additional playable character!
The playable version on itch.io is the game jam version, roughly equivalent to the first story chapter!
Plan your path
You have to defeat eight gigantic galactic monsters, but the order is up to you. Unlock skills by defeating the weakest ones and use them to best the heavy-hitters!
Meet your (dysfunctional) heroines!
The Star Guardians are a motley crew of girls and women at different stages of their lives, with their quirks, aspirations, crushes and little idiosincrasies. Learn more about their relationships after beating (or being defeated) by a boss.
Up for one more challenge?
Choose between a more relaxed Story Mode, with dialogues, hints and charming interactions, and a more brutal Arcade Mode, where you'll have to best all enemies in a set amount of turns. Can you beat them all before the timer runs out?
WARNING:
- This browser game DOESN'T work on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) and might work only on Google Chrome/Firefox when played on a Mac. Be sure to allow third party cookies in order to save your progress when playing the web build!
- Running the Mac version of the executable will most likely incur in some warning from your OS. Follow this official Godot guide to bypass them: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/running_on_macos.html#ap...
(This game was made for the #8colorsjam project in 30 days using Godot 4)
Download
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Development log
- 8-Colors Star Guardians PLUS will hit Steam in September! Wishlists are open!Jul 21, 2023
- Some new key art with all five star guardiansJun 16, 2023
- Additional key art for V'iri and JuniJun 15, 2023
- Just some new Rhea key art out of her low-pixel-count modelJun 14, 2023
- Fixed bug that didn't reset completion flags properly when clearing story mode a...Jun 10, 2023
- Added missing stages + fixed small score bugMay 29, 2023
- Solving some underhanded Windows crashesMay 29, 2023
- Replaced Final Boss music with definitive versionMay 28, 2023
Comments
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Hey, this is really great! The gameplay is fun and the whole thing oozes charm. Thanks for making it.
I'm very happy you enjoyed the game and those absolute disaster girls at their finest! If you want more of it, the game received an updated Steam release with a full second story chapter :) Thank you again for your support, your words meant a lot!
The art style with only 8 colors was well suited to the squadron heroes and looked great. I felt that the story between the acts was also the best hero story, delving into everyone's personalities, but also foreshadowing them, leading to a very hot development at the end. The way the music builds up and the transformation call at the end, that was also very hot!
My favorite characters are Rhea and Viri, and my favorite move is the Emerald Saber. Also, I couldn't get enough of Juni's hawk pose after her attack!
Also, I tried the arcade mode after clearing the game, but the organization button kept changing to "Go! Go! Go!" and I could not change the organization.
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Oha, many MANY thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you liked the game - and that you liked the small interactions between the characters! I need to check what went wrong with the Party button, in theory it should change to GO GO GO only before the final boss. I will double check in my code, I might have messed up something in the last export. Did you play the Windows version, the browser version or any other?
Oh, sorry! I entered this URL in the itch app and downloaded it, but it looks like the version I was downloading was "8colorssentai_win_debug.zip"!
Uuuhm, the Debug version should be a low-performance but super stable version, so in principle that can't be the issue. Can you by chance link me your save files? You can find them by typing %appdata%\Godot\app_userdata\8colorsSentaiProject and pressing Enter in the Windows Explorer address bar. I suspect a flag didn't clear when you completed the game, thus causing the Arcade file to start with a "cleared last boss" state that triggered the GO! GO! GO! If you could send me your save files, I can check if this is the case.
Thanks a million in advance!
Here is the saved data!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uZ_p4zU_-c_y5Tk4je5SIorJyYqOXiZN?usp=dri...
THANKS! It's definitely a flag that didn't clear after the story mode, though I don't understand why (yet). So, if you want to reset your arcade run and try it until I fix stuff, open the save file savedataArcade.cfg and replace "true" after "hasToShowLastBoss" with "false" (no quotes), then save the file. I would suggest to set bossBeaten0=0 and totalNumberOfTurns=0 too to have a fresh start.
I will investigate the bug, thanks a lot for reporting it again!
This game oozes charisma. The way the guardians are always dancing, their interactions with each other, the stage select screen... I really liked this game
the stage select screen song is still stuck in my head
YO! I will report this to the composer of the main theme, he will be glad to know this!
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Hi, developer replying here. I wasn't aware of these issues, as they didn't trigger in my editor build, but I wouldn't be surprised if something unexpected happens in the standalone/exported version. I will actively investigate the crashes. Can you pinpoint any specific action that seemed to trigger the crashes more often?
EDIT: I'm trying to reproduce the crashes, but so far without success. I have been testing mostly story mode in the Windows downloadable version and currently running through it again. Did you play with the default settings? In case, it would help if you could you send me/link me the files in the path:
%appdata%\Godot\app_userdata\8colorsSentaiProject\logs
Thank you very much, I see an interesting crash report in your logs:
This is 100% the cause of the crash, though I cannot cause it to happen on my PC consistently. Apparently, it has something to do with a known bug in Godot 4.0. I will try to use one of the workarounds I found in the documentation and report back.
Did the crash happen mostly between scene transitions?
UPDATE: I could reproduce the crashes, if they happen at scene change. Godot crashes without showing any error, the one I thought to be responsible was a red herring, so I assume it must be an unlogged bug.
I might have pinpointed the cause of the error in the cleanup code on scene change. I have updated the build accordingly, see: https://dermondhase.itch.io/8-colors-sentai/devlog/538042/solving-some-underhand...