Planet-8

-PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING-

Due to the limited pallet and resolution, many flashing effects have been used.

Player Discretion is advised....

"When a mysterious distress signal is emitted from a colony on the dangerous Planet-8, the starship 'ZH-174 Savior' is sent to investigate. While mechanic 'Liam Gallum' is doing maintenance on the teleporter; it malfunctions, sending Liam to the heart of Planet-8. Now with nobody to help him, Liam must explore the abandoned colony to find equipment, tools, and other items to help him escape...." 

Planet-8 is a short, Nokia themed Metroidvania made in 9 Days for the NOKIA 3310 JAM 4 https://itch.io/jam/nokiajam4

Fight your way through the monster-infested caves of Planet-8, while trying to collect 3 Drill parts in order to repair the drill, using the drill, you can clear out the cave-in blocking your escape.

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How to play: 

Keyboard:

Z - Jump

X - Shoot

C - Inventory

Shift / M - Map 

Esc - Quit

Gamepad (X-Box)

A - Jump (If it the game asks for a yes/no prompt, this is yes)

X - Shoot (If it the game asks for a yes/no prompt, this is no)

Share - Inventory

Y - Map

Options - Quit

Hazards:

Bat 3 HP - Flies up and down.

Bobble 4 HP - Shoots diagonal bullets.

Slime 2 HP - Bounces all over the place!

Spikes - A very standard hazzard (Note: Try not to mistake the Stalagmites/Stalactites for spikes, they can't hurt you!)

Lava - Basically a recolor of a spike.

Key Door - While it can't hurt you, it can block you from getting special loot, or continuing, requires a key to open.

Loot:

Key - Simply touch the key to collect it!

Bag - Again, touch the bag to collect.

Chest 4 HP - If you defeat the chest, it will cough up it's loot for you!

Heart - Restores 1 heart. (Can go up to 6 hearts)

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DISCLAIMER: In many particle effects, the particles turn "on" and "off" rapidly, this is the same trick that gets used in certain (mainly old) video games, when the graphics can turn on and off rapidly to achieve a pseudo "transparency" effect. There is no third color at play, the same 2 colors that are allowed are the only ones being used in these cases. (technically, as by limitation of the particle effects in my game engine of choice, it's impossible to make them truly "flicker", so technically, a gradient IS being used, but I made the switch extremely fast, so you shouldn't be able to notice, so please excuse this, any in-between colors are completely unintentional, and a result of said limitation.)

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Incorporation of the theme:  Metroidvanias, by nature consist of you gaining items to upgrade your character, so I feel that it satisfies the theme of Upgrade.

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Overall am I satisfied with this entry?

Absolutely! I thought I would be scrounging for time due to the more expansive nature of the game, but time didn't turn out to be a real issue at all! I also severely underestimated how small a 84x48 resolution is, so that was probably the most restrictive part of this whole game. I have some experience with 1-bit monochromatic color pallets, so that wasn't a huge issue. Anyways, I'm so happy with the way it turned out, and I hope you enjoy playing it! 

- Skript-Kitty