Lightspeed Hideout

Defend your city against a huge spaceship!

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Keyboard controls

• Arrow keys to move, X to jump/interact, C to shoot and V for shield
• WASD to move, J to jump/interact and K to shoot and L for shield
• P to pause
• M to mute the music/sounds

Gamepad controls

• Left stick/D-Pad to move, A/Y to jump, X/B to shoot and triggers for shield
  
• Start to pause

Credits

• Font: C&C Red Alert by N3tRunn3r
• Game engine: https://heaps.io/
• Graphics: Aseprite, SpriteMancer, Blender
• Music/SFX: Bitwig Studio, Microtonic Beatspace, Rough Rider, Session Strings 2, Studio Drummer, Synplant, Synth1, TAL Bitcrusher, Valhalla Supermassive, Vexengo SPAN, Vital

This game is a post-jam version of my GDKO 2023 entry

Changelog (spoilers!)

• 1.0.0 (2023-03-15)
  • Original jam version

• 1.2.1 (2025-02-20)
  • Added an area to explore to the left of the dome and a couple more secret areas
  • Added coins that can be used to rebuild the city
  • New areas are unlocked by rebuilding the city
  • Added an extra "master" difficulty with very difficult boss patterns
  • Added a shield power up that slows down time
  • Added collectibles that unlock the "master" difficulty and shield charges
  • Rebalanced boss HP and patterns for all difficulties
  • Added a settings menu
  • Game speed can now be adjusted
  • Added a retro-looking mosaic filter

• 1.2.2 (2025-02-23)
  • Fixed a bug where you could keep upward momentum using horizontal screen transitions (thanks qwerty741!)
  • Buffed the shield, it now protects against electric walls, hitting the boss, falling into the void and being squished
  • Made the shield deactivate at the end of a boss phase
  • Flattened the rewards table for higher difficulties and made it a lot cheaper to upgrade the city so more players can access other areas of the game