MACHINATION - Field Manual

You are a mech. There are enemies. They will stop being enemies.

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What Is This Game

Machination is a top-down arena shooter where you pilot a mech through a series of increasingly hostile combat zones.

Six stages. One mech. One run.

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Controls

Action	Input
Move	WASD
Aim / Shoot	Mouse
Throw Grenade	Right Click
Dash	Space

Movement is world-relative - W always moves up the screen, regardless of where you're pointing. Your mech rotates to face the cursor independently.

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Powers

Powers unlock automatically when you enter each new stage. You'll see a notification on screen.

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Stage 2 - Regen

Passive health regeneration.

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Stage 3 - Dash

Hold Space while moving to blink forward.

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Stage 4 - Double Trouble

Your primary gun now fires both barrels at the same time, every shot.

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Stage 5 - Circular Blast

Every 6 seconds, you automatically fire a ring of projectiles in all directions.

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Stage 6 - Grenadier

Your grenade count refills automatically over time.

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All damage and stats scale with stage - fire rate, move speed, grenade cap, damage multipliers all increase as you progress.

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Good luck out there.

Dev Notes: I didn't get much time to work on the UI parts and build issues because of the JAM time limit. But I plan to improve things in the future.

Font Credits: https://thug-inc.itch.io/healzone-pixel-fonts