D-FENCER VS THE ORB is a short, experimental STG (shmup) made for LÖVE Jam 2023.

Use the SURGE WEAPON to be in two places at once. Recover from the edge of failure with the HBT system. THE ORB awaits.

This game features some flashing/strobing effects.

Most game controllers should be supported. On keyboard, use WASD/Arrows and J/Z to navigate the menus. You can figure it out from there.

If you're not on Windows, please install the LÖVE framework from https://love2d.org/ and use it to run the .love file.

Non-jam assets:

• Jet Lag, by nighthawk
• Facing the Evil, by nighthawk
• Electric Heating, by nighthawk
• The Schwartz, by Cygnes
• Letting Go, by Jeroen -WAVE- Tel
• Silver by Poppy Works
• m3x6 by Daniel Linssen
  
• Shapeforms Audio Free Sound Effects

All music is fully attributed in-game, but used without permission. If you are the creator and want it to be removed, please contact me: danbo@fastmail.fm

All other assets were created for the jam, except for the player ship sprite and some bullet sprites -- taken from a private prototype.

Libraries used:

• HUMP (vrld/HDictus)
• Simple Tiled Implementation (karai17)
• anim8 (kikito)
• brinevector (novemberisms)
• classic (rxi)
  
• hex2color (s-walrus)
• json.lua (rxi)
• lume (rxi)
• lurker (rxi)
• shash (rxi)
• tick (bjornbytes)