EDEN95.exe
How to play:
Hover with mouse to shoot.
Left click/Shift to use boost ability (which you can unlock through the upgrade tree)
Earn research to upgrade ADAM to get further.
Reach the portal at the end of a level to progress and learn more about what's going on at Eden Group.
About the game:
You receive a message from a company called Eden Group. Complete their video game, and the reward will be enough to save your father's life. They say they chose you because you're the best in the world at what you do. With a reward like that on the table, you never thought to ask questions.
The PC boots. The fans spin up. A desktop appears — a folder labelled Messages, and two files: ADAM.cfg and EDEN95.exe.
Launch the executable and take control of ADAM, a machine traversing three increasingly hostile stages. Enemies close in from all directions and the recoil of your turret is your only means of movement. Every shot carries you closer, or further away from your goal. Eliminate strategically. Keep the operation going.
When ADAM is destroyed, gathered research is preserved as the executable shuts down. Open the configuration file, upgrade ADAM, and relaunch.
Three stages. One cartridge to install at the end. One life-altering reward waiting on the other side.
Pay attention to what Eden Group tells you.
Pay closer attention to what it doesn't.
Music credit: music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The issue with these "desktop" type games is that it can cause issues if you get too immersed.
I was playing a horror desktop type game called 'Heaven Does Not Respond', and wanted to close an in-game program, so I used Atl-F4, which, of course, simply closed the actual game and not the fake in-game one...
Boy was THAT embarrassing, good thing no one knows about it though...
Really well done! Totally different control scheme, and the difficulty curve is working great for the first two stages.
Could use a bit more finetuning near the end, the third stage took days for me to complete (git gud?) and it takes quite a while to scrounge up enough credits for all power ups. Is there more to the secret messages? I’ve got four of them, and it doesn’t seem to matter in the end. Or is there more than one ending?
Parhaps the most impressive audio of any jam-game i played. Art style is on point. Def jam-winner contender.