Galactice Assimilation

What's this game about?

Galactic Assimilation is a 2D top-down space shooter where you fight waves of enemy spaceships. The only problem is that your spaceship does not have a gun. The only way to fight back is to capture and "join" enemy spaceships with a grappling hook, allowing you to use their guns. Be careful about joining with certain ships as it changes how weight is distributed across your spacecraft.

How to play

Control your spaceship using WASD:

• W: activate forward thrusters.
• A: turn left.
• D: turn right.
• S: activate rear thrusters (requires captured spacecraft facing backwards)

Use the left mouse button to fire the grappling hook and capture enemy ships so that they can "join" with your ship.

Use space bar to fire weapons from joined enemy ships.

A bit of background

I'm entering this project into the GMTK game jam as my first ever game jam. I learned a lot about my abilities and scope creep. If you've beaten the game, then you've probably seen just how short it is. Unfortunately, I just did not have enough time to add more content.

Credits

All game art and code was created by me.

Sound effects and font were downloaded from Kenney Assets:

• https://www.kenney.nl/assets/sci-fi-sounds
  
• https://www.kenney.nl/assets/kenney-fonts

Music was written by Jim Hall and is being used under the Creative Commons license: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jim-hall

• Main menu music: Jim Hall - Explosions In The Sky
• Game music: Jim Hall - Elsewhere

Source Code

https://github.com/saba-kal/galactic-assimilation