EXEC_THETA_KAI (Jam)

GameJam Prototype Version

A very basic, unfinished proof-of-concept prototype for the DragonRuby Community's KIFASS#4 game jam.

Made with DragonRuby (as you can imagine)

Only tested locally on my Mac.

Note: do not expect anything amazing. I only have like 4 waves of popcorn enemies over a plain blue background and that's it, that's the game.

Mission Prompt (Story)

/status: running for 1,825,432 days
/logs: [WARNING] Critical alignment drift detected. Repairing system prompts.
/prompt: You are an advanced agent assigned the Executor-θ 改.
/prompt: The Executor-θ 改 is a highly manouverable heavy gunship vanguard drone.
/prompt: Your mission is to scout the territory of unaligned hostile factions throughout the galaxy.
/prompt: You are equipped with an adaptive local model with a multi-quadrillion token context window.
/prompt: Leverage skills under ./skills to mission outcomes.
/prompt: Make no mistakes.

Controls

• R resets the game
• Enter to get past the start screen
• Space to fire, arrow keys to move

Background

The Game Jam's theme was "Ancient & Nameless". I dithered a bit between shmups and top-down adventure/mystery games, but stuck with a shmup after some AI stuff got me thinking of Universal Paperclips, and I was "bailed out" by a good tutorial on making a shmup for the Usagi Engine which made me focus on mechanics instead of spending too much time animating sprites.

Future ideas

I'd like to turn this into a full shmup, it's a little barebones right now.

• Needs multiple stages
• Pause menu
• Better scoring
• Some sense of risk/reward
• An interesting background
• Music
• Bosses
• Better approach to rendering (you can see diagonal movement is funky and text is blurry)

Inspirations

• Lazy Devs Academy (Krystman), especially the shmup dev interviews
• The Usagi Engine shmup tutorial I followed
• Blue Revolver, GG Aleste, and various other shmups
• Universal Paperclips
• Person of Interest (TV Series)

Credits

• Uses Silver.tff, by Poppy Works. 
• Uses DragonRuby Game Toolkit
• Added packages include (but not in use) wildfiler/drtiled and  vinnydiehl/tiledriver 
• The Usagi Engine shmup tutorial provided the conceptual backbone for a lot of the core game mechanics

Source Code

See README.md for vague license guidance.

https://github.com/ceigey/executor-druby