Shield

A game made for the final round of Pixel Game Maker Awards

Controls: (Explained in tutorial)

• Click Yes or No on start menu
• WASD or Arrow Keys to move
• Hold Right Click to create a shield to defend yourself
• Hold and release Left Click to throw a shield that damages enemies
• TIP: Defending (Right Click) with your shield facing down and falling onto danger (such as spikes) will allow you to "pogo" off of it.

All levels are procedurally generated, so replaying will always give you a different Labyrinth to explore!

Story:

After The Invasion, the world has been left in shambles. You are a member of a band of scavengers fighting to survive. One day, word reaches you that a Shield Gauntlet, once used by the elite army that defended Earth, is being stored in an alien stronghold called The Labyrinth. As you were most suited to the job, you volunteered to retrieve the Gauntlet and bring it back, to give the survivors a hope of defeating the alien menace. Can you escape the Labyrinth with the Gauntlet alive?

This game was made for round 4 of Pixel Game Maker Awards (PGMA) Season 8.

Check PGMA out here! Pixel Game Maker Awards (PGMA) - 2026 Game Jam

Credits:

• Tile system for dungeon generation based off of Griffpatch's.
• Text engine by h0rnet15.
• Scrolling and player movement based and heavily edited off of Jackson Academy.
• Player and enemy animation script by xamuil2.
• Pixel perfect rotation block by Kingman III, inspired by pianoman523's rotation.
• Sound effects by Zapsplat.com and Little Robot Sound Factory, PMSFX and Skyclad Sound on Zapsplat.com
• Epic music by SyncMusicTracks on Zapsplat.com
• Palette used is AAP-64
• Made with Turbowarp.