StarOx
GameDevTV Game Jam 2026 (theme: Connections).
You pilot a mothership and recruit a fleet of smaller ships, gunships and shieldships that fly tethered to you with visible connection lines. As you collect scrap dropped by enemies, your fleet grows.
Key mechanics:
- Formations: cycle your fleet between V, Circle, and Diamond shapes
- Spacing & sort order: tweak how tightly ships pack and whether guns/shields are interlaced or grouped
- Combat: fight waves of enemies (including bombers and boss waves), survive until the win screen
- Game over if your mothership dies
The "connections" theme shows up literally, your ships are linked together and tactically, since formation choice changes your offense/defense profile.
Comments
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game is nice, I like the concept , it's fun, and I really like that you can change formation but did not actually know what's the use of right click and left click, don't both change the formation?
Took a bit to figure out what was going on but once I did it was a really interesting concept and fun to play. The moment I got hit with a missile and lost most of my ships made me feel dread. Boss came at the right moment when I was about to get tired of it. Good job!
Thanks for playing and your comments lol, we didn't intend for the dread to happen, but it's evoked the same in our play tests. We're trying to balance pickups with difficulty and feeling like you can come back if down on ships.