Sentry Seeds

NOTE: This is a game I submitted for GMTK GameJam 2025, the theme is Loops. The game itself still needs more polish, but fully playable. No tutorials available so see the instructions here.

"You are a space cadet dropped in an arena, tasked to defeat alien fighters. You are tasked with defeating the alien forces, however normal bullets is not enough to destroy them. Instead, you are equipped with a sentry deployment ship, which can transform to powerful sentinels to fight them. Dispatch the sentries and activate them, before the enemies blows them up -- or you!"

This is an arcade "shmup" game, but instead of shooting, you deploy sentry seeds which can turn to powerful sentinels for a short time after you touch them. The goal is to deploy and activate as many sentries as you can and destroy the enemy ships.

HOW TO PLAY:

• Press and hold the dash button to drop seeds along your path while dashing.
• Touch one of your deployed seeds to turn all seeds to sentinels and shoot at enemies.
• Watch your Fuel! If you ran out of fuel, you'll be stuck in recharge mode for a while and cannot dash
• Enemies can destroy seeds by by touching them before they turn to sentinels.

CONTROLS:

• LEFT/RIGHT - steer left or right
• UP - move forward (you guessed it: it's tank control)
• A - dash and drop sentries (it takes a while to deploy so hold dash)
• SPACEBAR - pause the game (cause escape key conflicts with itch.io :D )

... oh and M to mute, of course.

CREDITS:

• Music: Go by Abstraction -- visit his Bandcamp page http://abstractionmusic.bandcamp.com/
• Kenney for the wonderful assets and sounds -- visit https://www.kenney.nl/