Jon 'Wick'

🏆 2nd Place Winner - Genesis 5 Game Jam

Developed by Team "Sick 7" for the AIT Genesis 5 Hackathon (Theme: Duality).

Game Description

The Origin of the Descent

Every 300 years, the Frozen Snowmen rise to extinguish the Beacon of Hope, plunging the world into eternal frost. You are Jon 'Wick', a retired candle general with nothing left but a burning vengeance for his family. Your mission is suicidal: scale the 9 spirals of the Tower of Babel and sacrifice your inner flame to reignite the beacon before the rising ice consumes everything.

Core Mechanics: The Heat Spectrum

In this fast-paced action-platformer, your Heat Meter is your life, your speed, and your ammunition.

• Move to Survive: Your heat is linked to movement—staying still means freezing to death.

• The Stealth Duality: Your visibility to enemies shifts with your temperature.

• Ghost Mode (Yellow): At stable heat, you are invisible to the Frozen Snowmen.

• Hyper Mode (Blue): Reaching high heat (above Stage 2) triggers a powerful offensive state.

• Heat Recoil: Use the kinetic force of your fireballs to boost your movement speed while backing away from threats.

Major Updates: "Failure is Progress"

🔥 Blue Hyper Mode

When your heat surpasses the Stage 2 limit, you enter Hyper Mode, turning high-temperature risk into a massive advantage.

• Blue Sniper: Projectiles swap to a Blue Prefab that utilizes Physics.OverlapSphere for massive AOE damage.

• Pillar Breaker: Blue fireballs "One-Shot" Frost Pillars, bypassing standard health for rapid clearing.

• Hyper Speed: Grants a significant movement boost and activates the SpeedEffect motion overlays.

🌲 Persistent Skill Tree

A context-aware store that automatically opens when you have enough coins. Upgrades are applied instantly to your active run:

• Stealth & Growth: Increase your invisible threshold or heat recovery speed.

• Dash & Fire: Permanently reduce Thermal Dash costs or increase Fireball Speed.

🛠️ Technical Polish & Bug Fixes

• Spirit Embers: Death is no longer a reset. Recover lost resources at your previous death locations.

• Shattering Hazards: "Big Snowballs" now physically shrink and shatter on impact, dealing -20 Heat damage.

• Quality of Life: Intro cutscenes are now skippable (Enter), and the UI features fading damage numbers for real-time feedback.

Controls

• Move: WASD

• Jump: Spacebar

• Dash: Left Shift (Costs Heat)

• Aim/Fire: Mouse + Left Click

• Skip Cutscene: Enter

• Pause/Menu: Esc