GIGADYNE VOLTRAID

The star-devouring swarm GREEN DYNAMO is approaching the ZERO POINT. Pilot the last remaining GIGADYNE FIGHTER , armed with the homing-lightning superweapon VOLTRAID , to repel the enemy force and protect the NAMELESS FACILITY

GIGADYNE VOLTRAID is a single-stage vertical shoot 'em up about destroying enemies with an extremely powerful homing weapon. It was developed in a week for the TWG discord's fourth game jam. 

HOW TO PLAY

1. SHOOT ENEMIES to charge the VOLTRAID METER 
2. when fully charged, FIRE VOLTRAID to deal heavy damage to enemies and GENERATE STARS
3. briefly RELEASE THE FIRE BUTTON to suck in stars for score 

Controls 

(xbox)/[keyboard] defaults

• (d-pad or analog stick)/[arrow keys]: move ship/cursor
• (A)/[z]: fire/confirm 
• (B)/[x]: fire VOLTRAID/cancel
• (X)/[c]: access rankings (from title screen)
• (start)/[space]: pause
• (select)/[esc]: open config (remap controls, screen settings, exit game)

Tips & Tricks 

• An extra life is awarded every 1,000,000 points! hang in there...
• Firing voltraid grants a brief window of invincibility (about half a second). Use it to get out of a tight spot!
• You only have to release the fire button briefly to suck in stars - even releasing it for one frame is enough!
• Only the glowing core of your ship is vulnerable, and only the glowing cores of enemy bullets can hurt you
• Touching enemies won't hurt you, only their bullets can hurt you

Steam Deck/Linux 

This game should work on the Steam Deck, or on other Linux devices under Proton. To get it running on Steam Deck:

1. In desktop mode, download the game and extract the folder to your desired location 
2. Open steam → games → add a non-steam game to my library 
3. Navigate to the game’s folder and select the game executable 
4. Return to gaming mode and locate the game 
5. In the game’s properties, force the use of proton experimental 
6. Launch the game 

Credits  
This game was developed with Shooting Game Builder

All art assets drawn by me using Aesprite

Some sound effects were created by me using Chiptone by SFB games, the rest are from a royalty-free sound pack by Osabisi (https://osabisi.sakura.ne.jp/m2/tm4/se_new.html)

All music by Peritune. The stage theme is Raid2 and the boss theme is Flap. Music is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Thanks to TK for hosting the jam, and to the entire TWG community (especially the small contingent of shmup freaks)

Thanks to the ShmupJunkies and STG Development Discord communities for the vast collection of shmup dev resources