Stardive Assault
A downloadable game
My submission for GMTK Jam 2025!
Pilot an experimental starship with strange abilities against unrelenting forces! Draw open loops around your enemies before diving through them and closing the loop to destroy them! Draw loops around multiple enemies to take out multiple enemies at once, and rack up points to increase your starship's stage, upgrading its movement speed and wing length! If you can survive for 3 minutes, you win!
Controls:
Left mouse button to move ship towards mouse
Right mouse button to start tracing; touch the circle to finish an open loop and make enemies vulnerable
Space to dive
Your ship heals on stage increases, and when you get 200 points after reaching the maximum stage.
I didn't quite have enough time for the initial jam version for everything I wanted, so I plan to add these things in a post-jam update:
- A new enemy type
- Controller support
- A pause screen
There is a bug where the ship's wings are still visible after you die; luckily, this doesn't affect gameplay.
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Bro I did not know about the loop mechanic and was getting bored. But when I discovered it, my eyes literally popped. Holy cow, that mechanic is pretty awesome, and it sure is satisfying to pop 30 damage on a guy. Very cool!
Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you liked it! And yeah, I should probably have made some things clearer 😅 I'll probably add a tutorial in a post-jam update!