Gravity Well (itch) (Mystical_Pidgeon)

Xbox 360 gamepad highly recommended.

A top down spaceship shooter but instead of guns, you have access to a mobile gravity well that can push and pull enemy bullets, missiles, and asteroids. The enemy ships are equipped with antigravity measures, so your gravity well will have no direct impact on them. Keep an eye out for health packs enemies drop on death. Use your picked up items like a wrecking ball, it hurl them back at the enemies. And most importantly, try not to die!

Keyboard and Xbox 360 gamepad officially supported. Controls can be checked and rebound from the Options menu if you desire.

Keyboard Controls

• WASD - Move
• Arrows - Move gravity well
• Shift - Enable gravity well
• Space - Reverse gravity well
• Esc - Pause

Xbox gamepad controls

• Left stick - Move
• Right stick - Move gravity well
• Right Trigger - Enable gravity well
• Left Trigger - Reverse gravity well
• Start - Pause

This was a solo project made for Game Maker's Toolkit Jam 2018.

Audio sourced from freesound.org and licensed under creative commons 0. Specific credits can be found in game.

I use the free asset Game Jam Menu Template as a base for my menus.

Possible additions to be added at an undetermined future date

• More debris
  • Enemy ships will turn into debris you can throw around after they die (will also reduce the asteroid count to further encourage this)
• Minimal auto-aim
  • Thrown items will slightly curve towards nearby enemies to make it feel better to blast items towards them
• Limit the gravity well
  • A slider will move up or down depending on the type of gravity you are using
  • If it goes too far in either direction, that type of gravity will become weak or disabled
• Rebalanced difficulty
  • Increase enemy chase vision range
  • Increase enemy speeds
  • Adjust enemy health/damage/points