Do you have what it takes to protect your cottage from the army of the undead?

Marceline And The Magic Staff is a combination of a Collectathon, Tower Defence and Third Person Shooter.

Collect Resources, Build Defences using those resources before the time runs out and then fend off the hordes of enemies!

This game originally began life as a VERY overscoped project for a one week game jam back in October 2024. This new version is a full one level version of the concept fully realized, and replaces the version previously here on itch.io. 

New features include -

• A main menu along with options and control layout diagrams
• Two new buildable defences - Magickal Turrets (which can really help turn the tide of a battle) and Exploding Barrel Lures (Complete with very late-90s idtech looking zombie gibs!)
• Improved AI
• Lots of bug fixes
• Overall better gameplay balance
• An easter egg (if you know where to look)
• Less lag/stuttering during gameplay

Please let me know what you think - if enough people enjoy this type of gameplay, I will work more on this project and make it into a full fledged game with several levels, collectables, new enemies, new weapons and new types of buildable defences!

- Skels <3

--- CONTROLS  (Also available in game) ---

Supports both Keyboard & Mouse and Gamepad/Controller!

- Mouse/Right analogue stick to control player turning & camera tilt

- WASD/Left analogue stick to control player movement

- Space/Triangle button to jump

- Left Mouse Button/Square button to Build or Attack (changes from building phase to shooter phase)

- Right Mouse Button/Circle button to Cancel Build or Melee (changes from building phase to shooter phase)

- F11 to toggle fullscreen mode

- Mouse & Gamepad sensitivity can be controlled via the 0 and 9 keys

- Invert X and Invert Y can be toggled using F1 and F2 keys

--- CREDITS (Also available in game) ---

World & cottage textures, Zombie character & Cottage model by Phantasm Rain

Marceline (The Witch/Player charecter) voiced by Mireaze

Zombies voiced by The_Nats

Music tracks are "Wickedly Waltz" by Beat Mekanik (Build phase) & "Satan's Claws" by Xennial (Shooter phase) via FreeMusicArchive under the CC0 license

All other 3D models & texture work, 2D graphics, programming & game design by SkellySoft

Sound effects kindly provided by Freesound.org & Pixabay under the CC0 license