Released in 2024 as part of Luke Herbert's MechJam V, Drifter is a survival game with danmaku elements. In it, the player pilots Mech Model M-5V as it rapidly loses fuel. The player must find refuge, manage fuel and resources, and dodge space pirates in order to successfully survive. The game has multiple secrets and unique elements that the player must adapt to in order to survive.
Drifter is another unique game for me, as it was my first attempt implementing mouse controls and seed-based generation in game. I wanted to try to create a game in the Survival game genre since it was popular among my friends at the time, as well as try something in code that I hadn't done before, in this case being seed-based generation. The game was created in two weeks using the Haxeflixel engine, and the art and programming was made by me. I created a YouTube video describing the development ideas, process, and afterthoughts which is included with the screenshots.
