Minute2Boss

For the GMTK 2019 game jam, where the theme is "Only One"

We decided on one form of movement, one main enemy (which later got cut to the only enemy), and one direction of progression.

This is a platformer with no gravity which you have to navigate a course to escape the off switch as you break out of the program which confines you. You can sustain three hits before you're turned off. Only through the "Try Again" button is your power restored. Escape the Big Zero and be the ONLY ONE to break out of the game.

Click or hit space to get running. No time for introductions.

Here's one anyway... reminicing on the original idea...

This is our first game and at first we had planned a fastpaced hyper hard-to-control shoot-em-up of a astroids with one minute to prepare for a final cuphead like boss-fight at the end. Bug after bug and time running short, it was turned into a side-scrolling platformer with a race against an enemy which now chases you, with the 1 minute being the time to beat the level.