Uncaptured Heart

You want to avoid your heart to be captured by darkness and negative emotions.
Use the smiling helper to fight off the bad stuff.

How to play:

WASD to control the little buddy helper
Attacks automatically in a small area

Your buddy can't get damaged, but your heart is vulnerable.

Protect it!

You can level up and get stronger by filling the yellow bar.

Collect special objects by running into them,

you can try and push the enemies away if they get too close.

Credits:
ererbe - Programming, VFX

Candycornskull - Art

Created within 8 hours for the R42 Game Jam #02 June 2023

PostJam version adds:
- better and more interesting difficulty curve
- much UI polish, also a bit polish in general
- global scoreboard
- many bugfixes

Known bugs:
- web version global leaderboard wont work. im sorry :x

- links in credits are still broken :x