A caravan shoot'em up made for 16bits 2025 Caravan Jam.

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CARAVAN 16

STORY:

In distant future year 2025, somewhere in space, two factions battle for asteroid mining resources. These factions employ mercenary pilots who fight with sophisticated and deadly-powerful war machines called SPACESHIPS. You pilot one of these SPACESHIPS. Go now, pilot. Take your SPACESHIP and destroy the enemy! For profit and resources!

PERKS:

• 3 minute job - quick in and out
  
• Fully customizable controls
• SPACESHIPS
  
• No useless tutorials
• Music from https://doranarasi.itch.io/
• TATE MODE!
• ... and secrets 🪐

CONTROLS:

• MOVE with the Arrow Keys (or D-Pad, or Analog Stick).
• SHOOT with Z. (Xbox A)
• FOCUS with X. (Xbox X) You move slower when focused, and your guns all fire forward.
• HYPER with C (Xbox Y) when the meter is charged. This makes your weapons more powerful for a short time.

SCORING:

• Destroy enemies to gain points. Hopefully this is obvious :)
• Destroy lots of enemies in a row quickly to multiply points. The limit is 10x.
• Collect stars and graze (nearly touch) bullets to charge up hyper mode a little.
• Collect big stars to charge up your hyper meter by a large amount.
  
• Use hyper mode to break the multiplier limitation and get big big points.

ADVANCED TIPS:

• You can survive a hit without losing a shield while hyper is active.
  
• Collecting big stars refills the meter while hyper mode is active. Use this to keep your chain going longer.
• Activate hyper when lots of bullets are on screen to convert them all to stars.
• You gain more hyper meter than normal if you graze bullets while at 10x. It's a fast but risky way to charge up the meter.
• Big stars give increasing points the more you collect. This resets if you get hit.
• Collect small stars in hyper mode to gain bonus points. The points start at 100...
  

At the end of the game there will be bonus points awarded:

• 10000 per second left on the clock
• 10000 for each shield remaining
• 100 for each star collected
• 1000 x the highest multiplier achieved during the game

What are you still reading this for? There's a war on, pilot!

Get out there and shoot 'em up!