Dreamwire

Proxy Team 17 3rd Year Jam submission

Dreamwire (working title) is a stylised boss-rush game where you are the boss, an ancient technological being residing in the circular ruins of a colosseum, what used to be your safe haven now a stage for battle. The player/hero will face you one-on-one, getting stronger every time they return and they always will - they can forever hit retry on your level.

Visually, the game has a motif of the "divine machinery" aesthetic. You, as the boss, are held together with strange technology, a product of an ancient time wherein you've amassed enough knowledge to gain sentience.

Every time the hero returns, they will level up with higher HP and new attack patterns to learn. To continue to push the enemy back, you must adapt your own moveset too, parrying new attacks and using your crumbling environment to your advantage. The aim is to get as far as you can, beating your high score and realising that there is no winning, only surviving.