Temporal Blitz

My submission for 16bits 2025 Caravan Jam

Controls

	Keyboard	Controller
Move	Arrow Keys	D-pad
Shoot	Space Bar / Z (v02_1)	A / Cross
Bomb	A / X (v02_1)	B / Circle
-	-	-
Restart	Hold Enter	Hold Start
Return to Main Menu	Hold Esc	Hold Select
Exit Game	Hold Enter + Esc	Hold Start + Select

How to play

• Speed kill enemies to earn medals
• You gain rank and bomb by collecting medals
• Rank increases difficulty but multiplies points of a kill
• At rank 3, the rank bar will tick down and medals start to give a flat 25 points (not affected by multiplier)

Points Table

Enemy	Points
Small	20
Mid	40
Mid+	60
Big	100
Boss	500

Extra Notes

Some enemy spawn positions have controlled  + seeded randomness.

There are occasional jitters/stutters I have not been able to figure out (currently using Godot 4.5.1 Compatibility).

*Update v02*

• Rebalanced several waves to have fixed spawns (some still have controlled randomness)
• Added a boss
• Reworked several wave spawn patterns
• Added a basic options menu
• Added saving highscore and options to file

*Update v02_3*

• Fix timer bug where timer was not paused after quick restart

Credits

• 1Bit Space Arcade Asset Pack(modified) by greatdocbrown under CC BY-SA 4.0
• Chroma Noir Palette by VEXED
• Upheaval (Font) by Brian Kent
• NES Sounds by Basto
• 512 Sound Effects (8-bit style) by Juhani Junkala
• 8-bit theme - Moving Right Along by Wolfgang_