This project was my submission for the 2023 GMTK Game Jam

 

• The jam theme was "Roles Reversed"

• First time doing a game jam completely alone and thus tried to keep things fairly simple.

• I decided to create a reverse of the "Bullet Heaven" genre, popularized by games like "Vampire Survivors"

• The player controls the hoard that is attacking the entity that is traditionally controlled by the player, in this case its a sphere

• The player spawns cubes that will track down a white sphere as it fires bullets at them at regular intervals

• The player and the sphere both level up and gain new bonuses as the game goes on until the player can defeat the sphere

• I designed, programmed, and made everything for this project

• I learned a lot about adding in little visual flairs to help communicate mechanics to the player

You can see the submission page and download the game from itch.io or feel free to watch the playthrough video
https://sircuddlekins.itch.io/shadowbox