Nirengeki: Double Strike

Controls:

WASD to move the fighter-ship. Moving expends fuel.

Move your mouse to move your drone to your mouse cursor. Move the drone over to a pickup to bring it back to your ship.

Spacebar to fire your laser-cannon. Hold to fire continuously. Shooting expends bullets.

Tab to dock your drone to your fighter ship, increasing speed and adding an extra gun that doesn't consume ammunition. Press Tab again to undock your drone, allowing you to pick up power ups.

Ctrl to activate your Nirengeki Double Strike Laser System. A powerful laser beam will fire between your fighter-ship and your drone for a few seconds. This laser beam continuously does damage to enemies, as well as destroys enemy projectiles. When undocked you can move the drone to maneuver the laser. When docked you can surround yourself with the laser to project yourself from enemy bullets, and ram the laser into enemy ships. Activating the Nirengeki Double Strike Laser System uses one energy cell.

Refresh the page if you run out of lives. 48 hour game jam :^)

UI:

Along the left side of the screen is shown in order:

Score points by destroying enemies and collecting point-boosting pickups.

Lives are lost after receiving too much damage. Run out of lives and the game is over. Keep an eye out for extra life pickups.

Fuel is expended by moving, stay topped off with fuel pick-ups or risk becoming a sitting duck.

Ammunition is expended by shooting, stay armed with ammo pick-ups or risk being overwhelmed by Oni's armada.

Armor protects your ship from a limited amount of damage. When armor reaches 0 the next source of damage will destroy your ship and you will lose a life. Most projectiles remove 1 Armor, but some are more powerful.

Energy Cells power the Nirengeki Double Strike Laser System. Press Ctrl to expend an energy cell and activate the N.D.S.L.S. creating an all powerful beam between the drone and the fighter-ship.

Description:

Join together with your trusty drone to take wing against the forces of Oni, the evil space overlord.

Nirengeki: Double Strike is a space shoot-em-up made to fit the theme of GMTK GameJam 2021: Joined Together.

The player controls a fighter-ship with the keyboard, and a drone-ship with the mouse. 

When joined together the drone adds an additional gun and additional thrust to the fighter-ship, increasing both offensive power and maneuverability.

When separate, the drone allows the player to retrieve pickups, such as new weapons, additional ammunition, fuel, lives and energy cells.

The drone and gunship can combine their power to unleash a devastating laser attack between them, evaporating enemies and bullets alike.

Destroy the enemy ships, collect power-ups, and post your hi-score in the comments!