Encaged

Encaged is a game i made in three days as a Call of Duty Zombies fangame, it might be a little un-polished, as i made it in such a short space of time by myself using nothing but my old phone, and i didn't really know what i was doing, im not an experienced game developer, i've never done this before, ive wanted to for nine years but never have till now. 

Encaged is fairly simplistic, it follows a similar round/wave based system like that in CoD, the only difference being the wave changes every 30 seconds, every wave the enemy spawn rate slowly increases, so does the enemy health, every enemy that is killed drops a small ball of energy that fills up a meter in the top left corner, once the meter gets filled, you can choose one of two Perks, Encaged follows a Perk system based off of that found in Call of Duty: Vanguard's zombies mode, but its actually more like Advanced Warfare's PaP system in perk form. There are two perks in-game, Trigger Finger has a white box button to select it, and Marksman has a blue box button.

Most of the time, thought, effort and care was put into the lore and story of this game, the meaning is hidden within that story, and everything in this game holds some form of importance and meaning.

Encaged story & game description

“Where the faithful vanish, the truth survives.”

You wake up in a dark, damp, rotting space. The walls are cold and alive with silence. There is no light. No exit. No god. Only the sound of something moving.

You are Varrin Kade. You were on your way to the hospital all dizzy, drained, barely able to breathe. Something had gone wrong. You didn’t know what. The pain came out of nowhere. But deep down, you remember why.

You found something you weren’t supposed to.

You tried to destroy a strange object, as you knew it was something ancient, something sacred to people you don’t understand. You didn’t care. You claimed it was evil. You claimed you were protecting the world.

Now you’re here.

This place has no name in your world, but those who came before whispered it as The Maw. The stone it's made of, Obdurite, can’t be broken, burned, or prayed through. You’re trapped in a room where time rots and your body slowly forgets what strength ever felt like. It's cold. It's wet. You don't even know how you got here.

You’re not the first.

They say hundreds of thousands have ended up here, all forgotten and erased. Preachers. Missionaries. Crusaders. Men and women who spent their lives spreading a message they thought was holy, while spitting on anything that didn’t match it. They were all so sure. Now they’re all gone.

And you’re next.

You're not fighting people, zombies, or cryptids, You're fighting something worse, Nephroclasts, twisted forms made from Tarrasludge, a slimy, cursed substance born from corrupted earth and dead faith. They're not alive, but they hate you like they're remembering something. Like they’ve seen your kind before. There's no point trying to run, nor hide. they're fast, locked on target, and can absorb and leak out through walls of Obdurite. All you can do is attempt to survive, good luck, you will need it.

There’s a name hidden in the Codex that brought you here: Elias Black. You wouldn’t know him, But he knows you. He doesn’t appear in-game, He doesn't need to. Some say he wrote the Codex Noctem, someone who believed in truth, not worship.

When you touched the object and tried to break it, Elias felt that. He saw your hate, And he whispered something into the space between moments. That’s when your body began to fail, That’s when the world started to forget you.

There is no escape.
No one is looking for you.
No one remembers you were ever here.

Keys:

Varrin Kade: The protagonist, they tried to damage a sacred item, but then they were here.

The Maw of Amalgrath: An inescapable place made of Obdurite, where countless of those marked by hateful faith have been sent and forgotten. A large box with a simple layout, in the middle of an endless void in another dimension, sitting atop a scorching hot, glowing rock island floating there. isolated.

Obdurite: A cursed, unbreakable material immune to light, time, and prayer.

Tarrasludge: A corrupted, cursed mud born from desecrated holy ground and weaponized guilt.

Nephroclasts: Blob-like horrors made of Tarrasludge, hostile to anyone marked by faith.

Codex Noctem: The mysterious text that holds the key to the Maw's creation and purpose.

Elias Black: You don't know him, but he sure knows you. Only exists in lore.

Shepherd's End: The firearm Varrin found himself wielding as he fended for his own survival.

Perks:

Trigger Finger: One of the two perks in-game, by every upgrade of Trigger Finger your fire-rate will increase by one point.

Marksman: One of the two perks in-game, by every upgrade of Marksman your accuracy will increase by one point.

Thank you for reading, and i hope you enjoy Encaged.