A high-octane Top-Down Shooter game developed in Unity during the GMTK 2024 Game Jam.
Scale Event Starting! is an action-packed Top-Down Shooter game developed over 96 hours for the GMTK 2024 Game Jam. Among 35,000 participants and over 7,600 game submissions, our game received 191 votes and 150 comments, ranking 30th among the most voted games.
In this adrenaline-fueled experience, every 10 seconds triggers a new event or boss battle, keeping players constantly engaged. With 2 formidable bosses and 6 unique enemy types, your objective is to survive for 4 intense minutes using a variety of weapons, dash, and slow-motion abilities—all set to electrifying metal music.
Play the game on our itch.io page and test your survival skills!
- Dynamic Event System: Every 10 seconds, adapt to new challenges with dynamic events and epic boss battles.
- Diverse Enemies: Face off against 6 different enemy types, each with unique behaviors and attack patterns.
- Challenging Bosses: Confront 2 powerful bosses at the 2-minute and 4-minute marks.
- Weapon Variety: Collect and wield various weapons that drop on the battlefield to enhance your firepower.
- Special Abilities: Utilize dash and slow-motion features to outmaneuver enemies and strategize your attacks.
- Immersive Atmosphere: Experience high-energy gameplay enhanced by metal music, visual effects, and dynamic camera movements.
- "Built to Scale" Theme Integration: Incorporates scaling mechanics such as character power-ups, environmental scaling, time manipulation, and dynamic music changes.
- Visit our itch.io page.
- Download the game for your platform.
- Unzip the downloaded file.
- Run the executable to start playing!
- Objective: Survive for 4 minutes against relentless waves of enemies and challenging bosses.
- Events: Every 10 seconds, new events or bosses appear—stay alert!
- Weapons: Collect weapons dropped on the ground to enhance your firepower.
- Abilities: Use dash to evade attacks and slow motion to gain a tactical advantage.
- Strategy: Manage your resources and time your abilities to withstand the escalating difficulty.
- Move:
WASDor Arrow Keys - Aim: Mouse Cursor
- Shoot: Left Mouse Button
- Dash:
Shift - Slow Motion:
Spacebar - Pause:
Esc
This project is licensed under the MIT License—see the LICENSE file for details.
- GMTK 2024 Game Jam: Thanks to Mark Brown and the GMTK team for hosting an amazing event.
- Unity Technologies: For providing an excellent game development platform.
- Community Feedback: Huge appreciation to everyone who played the game and provided invaluable feedback.