Codo - The Elbow of Fate

This game was mostly made in 2020 when I had a lot of time on my hands. Then I suddenly stopped having lots of time on my hands and the project got put on hold. It is a top down shooter about saving a rock star who was abducted by aliens. The main character is a wrestler with a gun. You can punch and shoot and have to fight your way through a horde of aliens. The levels are kept rather open, the basic idea being that you have to search and collect some diamonds in each level to progress.

Controls

Keyboard

• Moving: WASD or Arrow Keys
• Shooting: Left Mouse Button or Space
• Punching: Right Mouse Button or Shift
• Pausing: Escape

Gamepad

There is also gamepad support! The basic assumption is that you use an XBox Gamepad or equivalent. i.e. a pad with two joysticks.

• Moving: Left Joystick
• Shooting: Right Joystick
• Punching: A Button
• Pausing: Start Button

Troubleshooting

Graphical problems

There are a few commandline options you can try:

--no-vsync disabled VSync and can possibly mitigate some issues. If not, you can try --no-vsync --force-sw, which forces usage of software rendering. The game is pretty easy on the hardware, so this should not be a problem performance wise.

Gamepad is not detected

Make sure to start the game with the gamepad already plugged-in/connected.

Where is the savefile?

On Windows: The savegame is stored in share/codo-data/user/, next to the executable.

On Linux: Its either in $XDG_DATA_HOME/.local/share/flying_elbow or $HOME/.local/share/flying_elbow, depending on whether $XDG_DATA_HOME is set.

On the Web: An IndexedDB entry is used to simulate the filesystem. The file is stored there.

Credits

pipo tileset

• Author: pipoya
• Link: https://pipoya.itch.io/pipoya-rpg-tileset-32x32

ingame font

• Author: domsson
• Link: https://opengameart.org/content/ascii-bitmap-font-oldschool

Epilogue

Anyways, thanks a lot for downloading and hopefully playing this game! If there’s something you want to tell me, drop me a mail at: slartibartfast@klockenschooster.de