Gravcycle

Entry for the 21st Alakajam (2025)

Controls:
- WASD or arrows - movement
- Shift or Space - dash
- Escape - close
- R - restart (/Space when dead)
- F11 / Alt+Enter - fullscreen

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Collect Space Trash and survive until the Recycling Zone above will be available (indicated by the lack of the Purple gradient), pick up however many you can manage and bring to the Recycling Zone, repeat the cycle.

Watch out for your speed, dont consistently accelerate, use fuel sparingly and your environment to your advantage.
Obviously avoid the Meteors, but collect the blue Battery Packs, they give you energy to fly.

Space Trash carried by you functions as your HP for protecting you against collisions with flying Meteors, and also as a resource for Dashing, the dash will override your velocity to wherever youre pointed.

Carrying a full inventory of Space Trash will skip the timer and immediately unlock you the access to the Recycling Zone, but dont be overly greedy as the more you carry, the slower you get.

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Code, Design & Art: @hyperdotbat
Music: @xxaro (my younger brother)
Color palette: https://lospec.com/palette-list/aero16 (modified)
SFX: https://www.bfxr.net/ + https://freesound.org (modified)
Font: https://font.gohu.org/

This took total of ~18h
I originally wanted to introduce simple ship upgrades and put it off as the absolutely last thing and sadly couldnt manage to add that, didnt even manage to add a Pause Menu😭