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Destroy the enemy ships, and you'll get more time until your own ultimately perishes.

Submitted by Fabio Sungurlian, LB5825, CashBrandicoot, smlin98, Squabbler — 30 minutes, 25 seconds before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Audio	#1172	3.523	3.667
Artwork	#2661	3.523	3.667
Enjoyment	#3277	3.203	3.333
Narrative	#5152	2.322	2.417
Creativity	#8547	2.322	2.417

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
It has a count down, you lose if it reaches 0. Defeating a wave of enemies gives you more time in the count down.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
see description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
TZer0 Team

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Comments

JeeroyLenkinzSubmitted98 days ago

Great arcade shoot-em' up! I had a lot of fun with this though it was definitely pretty tricky, and the fact that you moved forward/backward a lot faster than side-to-side kept tripping me up a bit. But I really enjoyed this, great job submitting for the jam!

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It Was THAT One!

PrebootSubmitted99 days ago

Great game, had a lot of fun!

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Goofy Movement Game

moozSubmitted100 days ago(+2)

pretty hardcore!! neat style, and fun enemies, i got wrecked pretty bad lol but i had a good time playing, nice job!

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Countdown Island

SquabblerDeveloper100 days ago(+1)

Hey thanks for playing! Yeah it can be rough in the later levels, or depending on which drops you get early.

Cher Chop GamesSubmitted100 days ago(+1)

Nice game. I recognize the assets from my first game:)

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Choperier's Flame

CashBrandicootDeveloper100 days ago(+1)

Yup! Those free assets really came in handy!

TimeHeistEntertainmentSubmitted101 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Great work on TZer0! good artwork and yes! the enemy formations were top notch, Thank you so much for rating my game /jam/gmtk-jam-2026/rate/4823917#post-16758046

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Knightfall Caverns

SquabblerDeveloper100 days ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! I had a lot of fun making those formations work together. Under the hood it's simply math of drawing line, square, circle, etc divided by number of enemies, and then just tweening them to those offset positions.

TimeHeistEntertainmentSubmitted100 days ago

Excellent! It wasn't apparent when I did it, so even better

TimeHeistEntertainmentSubmitted101 days ago

Great work TZer0! good artwork and yes! the enemy formations were top notch, Thank you so much for rating my game /jam/gmtk-jam-2026/rate/4823917#post-16758046

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Knightfall Caverns

NovaSnowfallSubmitted102 days ago(+1)

love the enemy formations, and the sound design is peak :3

think there is a minor bug where sometimes enemies wont move onto screen but will just sorta spawn without animation

i feel like the high amounts of vertical movement does add to how dynamic and fast it feels as well ^_^

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SquabblerDeveloper100 days ago

Thanks for playing! I noticed this bug as well, and I think it occurs when you get a screen clear between waves - at least that's what happened in my many test play-throughs.

fake_danteSubmitted102 days ago(+2)

Very fun! Spread shot is super fun to use and feels really strong. Had difficulty seeing when my ship was being hit

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Fabio SungurlianDeveloper102 days ago

Thanks for playing! We'll see what we can do about that last part.

AnchristSubmitted102 days ago(+2)

Pretty fun!

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I guess we're defusing bombs now??

Fabio SungurlianDeveloper102 days ago

Thanks!!

ILD GamesSubmitted102 days ago(+2)

I had fun with this! The only real feedback that I have is that it felt very strange that the vertical movement was so much faster than horizontal movement, but I also didn't really end up using the vertical movement at all except to collect powerups, because it was safest to stay at the bottom of the screen :)

Well done!

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Heartless Dungeon

Fabio SungurlianDeveloper102 days ago (1 edit)

Thanks for playing! To be honest I'm not entirely sure why we made the vertical movement like that, but I think it was because originally we were thinking to have a camera that goes faster if the player rushes forward to be able to rush forward and finish a level, but we sort of changed it later on and didn't find the movement weird so it stayed like that