My First Day as an Intern of the Queen's Dreadnaught and I Already Have to Fight a Hero?!

My First Day as an Intern of the Queen's Dreadnaught and I Already Have to Fight a Hero?!

Our game jam project for the 2023 GMTK Game Jam! The theme was Role Reversal, so we created a reverse shoot-em-up in which you play as the final boss. Unfortunately, this is your first day on the job and you haven't learned the controls yet - see if you can figure them out before you're toast!

The controls for this game are meant to be discovered through experimentation, but to give you a little guidance: you only use the letters on your keyboard, and there are two types of weapons, each of which has two guns on board the dreadnought.

If the game doesn't run well in browser for you, you might have better luck with the downloadable version!

Pixel art by Lee Cody. Character portraits by Laurel Deel. Ian Sentelik wrote the scenario and dialogue, and Jeff Wong and Kevin Vognar did the programming.

Projectile pixel art from https://livingtheindie.itch.io/animated-pixel-ships

Music by Abstraction: http://abstractionmusic.bandcamp.com/ 

SFX from the 8-Bit SFX Pack by Beep Yeah!: https://beepyeah.itch.io/8-bit-sfx-pack