Play as a humble polar bear equipped with a polarized magnet shield, fending off waves of feisty robotic foes by attracting and repelling bullets! Collect scrap and fish pickups from the robots and make sure to keep an eye on your shield charge meter. Can you survive the bullet hell or will you succumb to the jaws of defeat?

Controls:

• Movement: WASD / Arrow Keys
• Charge Shield:
  • Left Mouse: Positive
  • Right Mouse: Negative
• Dodge Roll: Left Shift
• Pause: Escape

Justification for Theme:

Our game demonstrates polarity by featuring projectiles that can be attracted or repelled by the player's magnetic shield. The enemies are given polarities to determine the projectiles they shoot out. We also have a polar bear as our main character! The bear's struggle against the robotic force trying to make him extinct is quite polarizing, wouldn't you say?

Justification for Advanced:

We had 4 team members for this jam. Most of us have more than 2 years of experience with only one having limited experience within the past year.  Most of us have done Jams before. At least two of us have published many projects on our Itch.io to be considered "Advanced"

Premade Asset Declaration:

• We used JSFXR for most noises aside from music.
• We used premade button outlines from a previous project for the UI with modified colors etc.
• We also repurposed an old Hitflash script for the project with minor modifications.
• We used the font "I pixel u" by rodrigosrtz on DaFont: https://www.dafont.com/i-pixel-u.font

Known Issues:

• Scrap counter gets overwritten for each picked up scrap (top left). It was supposed to be cumulative. Already fixed for post-jam.
• Windows executable build defaults to native resolution, breaking UI for users without 16:9 displays. Already fixed for post-jam.
• Magnet charge looping sounds can stay on indefinitely.

Credits:

• Programming:
  • Rick Jenkins
  • Evan McRae
  • Jet Thompson
• Sound/Music: Heath Franklin
• Art/Animation: Rick Jenkins