Bidirectional Growths

Controls :  Up and down arrow keys to move, space to shoot

First attempt at participating in a 3 hour game jam. I didn't manage to do it in only 3 hours, it took about 5h and a half, I will find a simpler idea next time ! 

The theme was Bidirectional, so I thought about how in game, the player's evolution is almost always unidirectional : we level up, gain power, increase our abilities. But in life, everything is multidirectional, our growths can be slowing down, losing abilities, wether it is by aging or becoming disabled, or just forgetting things or changing. So this is an attempt at making a game about that, bidirectional growth, leveling down sometimes, and life goes ahead anyway.

I will polish many things including the feedbacks, and work on the balance and rythms of all the random elements after the end of the voting period of the jam. For now I don't know if the gameplay and the texts feel linked, and it is not really the experience I intended. I have some ideas to make it work better, but I am interested in feedback anyway !