Silent Drift

Silent Drift

Run and gun roguelike where your bullets get enhanced by cards

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Entry for the GMTK Game Jam 2025

IMPORTANT! Browser version lags only at the beginning. If you want a smoother experience download the Windows version!

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What's this?

Definitely a game. Other than that, it's an experimental mix between a few genres, it's like Metal Slug with the Risk of Rain 1's aesthetics and some card/lite deckbuilding thrown in. Of course roguelike because when you die you lose all your progress. Ideally you discover cards and secrets in a more roguelite-way, but time is tight in a game jam.

Lore

You're a lone fighter, living in one of the many vaults on a far planet. You communicate with other vaults via a radio but some day it stops working, with the latest communication being a danger message from the closest main vault. You decide to leave your vault, wield your Index Gun and explore the area, looking for clues.

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How to play

1. Move around with A (left), W (jump), D (right). Arrow keys work as well.

2. Aim with your mouse and shoot with left click.

3. Your magazine contains 7 bullets. Each magazine is empowered by your active card (first from the left).

4. After unleashing a magazine, the card cycles to the right. Your hand holds up to 10 cards, looping back to the beginning.

5. Slaying enemies gives experience, rarely cards and COINS. Use your coins to buy cards from the loot chests around here.

6. You can shuffle the 2nd and 3rd cards with Q. It has a cooldown.

7. Explore the area for loot, medkits and the Drift Point, which spawns enemies.

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This game is a prototype, so there's only the first stage, 1 character, 14 cards, 5 enemies. The game ends when you clear the 500 enemies from the Drift Point, which is supposed to warp you to the next stage (NOT IN THE CURRENT BUILD).

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Assets and stuff

Game is made with Godot 4.4, all the art is mostly 8x8 made by me with Aseprite except the in-game cloudy background which is a modified version of https://ansimuz.itch.io/mountain-dusk-parallax-background, sound is made via jsfxr, the music track is from a previous game of mine.