No chance of finishing this game in the remaining time, so I’m throwing my towel.

My game would have been named “Escalation”, an allusion to a kind of (albeit one-sided) evolutionary arms race at the core of the game. Basically a kind of Space Invaders / vertical space shooter thing, where each level consists of the aliens (and their descendants, using some form of genetic algorithm) from the previous level that did most well (hit you, evaded your shots, etc.).

Right now, there’s only a title screen and the beginning of a level with a controllable spaceship and a moving alien. I spent too much time on the basic game engine (everything from scratch, apart from using jQuery for basic event handling), which should hopefully come in handy for the next jam!

Anyway, if you want to check it out, here’s the current state of the game: http://mcduke.net/escalation/

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