Carious Weltling (Game)

The main menu for Carious Weltling

Carious Weltling is an action-shooter game and also the first *The Badlands* game to be released. In this game, players take control of a Weltling as it tries to survive the many creatures that attempt on it's life. The game would later get a sequel, *Carious Weltling 2*, in 2005.

## Gameplay

   The game has the player assume the role of a young Weltling attempting to survive it's many predators by attacking them with the Weltling's own life-giving blood, which can be used to fire a single projectile called a **"Blood Blast" by clicking the Left Mouse Button** or, **by holding the Right Mouse Button**, to fire a **Blood Geyser**.

However, both of these attacks decrease the "Blood Meter" on the side of the screen with the Blood Geyser very rapidly decreasing the meter and if it empties out, the Weltling will die and lose a life. If the Weltling loses all of it's lives (indicated by a on the top left corner of the screen), the game will end.
 To re-fill the Blood Meter, players can collect maggots that descend from the top of screen although the player needs to be fast because they will be destroyed if they touch the ground and if the player accidentally destroys them, the player will lose points.
Collected maggots have a counter on the top-right corner of the screen. Rarely though, players might instead see a steak falling from the sky and if the Weltling eats it, it'll go into the **Mega-Muncher** state for a period of time. While in this state, the Weltling loses it's ability to fire blood but instead grows razor-sharp teeth, allowing the player to instantly kill any enemies (apart from the Spikes) by biting them, which will also result in a portion of the blood metter getting regenerated.

### Hazards

Carious Weltling features a small cast of enemies, described in the table below. Each enemy awards points when killed.

 Dumpling 2
 Spike
 Cereus Peashy
 Dumpling 3

### Normal Mode (WIP)

In normal mode, you progress level-to-level after a minute has passed. The main objective is to make it as far as possible by defending yourself against a small cast of enemies. Each level introduces something new, whether it be minor such as a background change, or major like an enemy. Enemies can either fall from the sky, or come from the sides. Rarely, 1-ups and the megamuncher powerup, which gives the weltling temporary invincibility and a massive pair of gnashing teeth that kill anything it bites on instant, fall from the sky.

Level one starts you off at night, where you must defend yourself from Dumplings falling from the sky whilst eating maggots to keep your blood meter full.

Level two only shows the moon setting.

Level three changes to an early and adds larger dumplings alongside falling spikes. The larger dumplings take two hits to kill instead of one, and the spikes act as a temporary obstacle for the player that the player can't get around. If a spike falls on top of the player, they immediately die.

Level four adds in the Cereus Peashy, which, as stated before, come running from either the left or right side of the screen flipping a spike as they run. Alongside that, the sun has begun to rise.

Level five shows that the sun has risen to its highest, and adds the final enemy type that can be encountered, a very large dumpling that needs three shots to kill. Small dumplings spawn much less.

Level six and above are basically the same as five, although the sun begins to set. Its safe to assume the background day-to-night cycle simply just loops itself and the gameplay barely changes throughout each level.

### Survival mode (WIP)

Survival mode is near-identical to normal mode, except all three types of enemies are present right at the beginning and there's a timer at the top of the screen to show how long you've managed to survive. Cereus peashy spawn at a much higher rate than dumplings do, so focus more on dealing with the peashy rather than the dumplings to avoid quickly losing all three lives you start with.

## Trivia

* The sun has a face.
	+ This face seems to have a cleft lip and an angered/crazed expression.