Temporal Blitz

My submission for 16bits 2025 Caravan Jam

Controls

	Keyboard	Controller
Move	Arrow Keys	D-pad
Shoot	Space Bar / Z	A / Cross
Bomb	A / X	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

*Update v1_1*

Big update to the game's visual design. Spurred by great feedback from Aktane and Jerm from the Shmup Junkies Discord! Mechanics are now clearly represented visually like x2/x3 text to indicate rank multiplier and quick! on hitting the quick kill. These visual changes greatly enhances how it feels when you're playing well. Very happy with how it turned out.

• Add caravan leaderboard (held in Shmup Junkies Discord)
• Fix seconds on the timer to always display in two digits

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_