THE DIGIGRADER is a deck-building horizontal shoot 'em up where you fire a hand of bullets. When your hand is empty, you apply card effects to each bullets individually, and resume fighting. It merges the gameplay of a deck-building game like Slay the Spire, with a classic 80s arcade horizontal shoot 'em up like Gradius.

Gamejam Disclaimer

This game was made in 4 days during the GMTK 2026 gamejam as a solodev. I obviously ran out of time to balance things out, add content and overall polish. Making a roguelike deck-building game was probably too ambitious. Thanks for playing and trying this out.

Theme: COUNTDOWN

Your bullets will fire from the highest to the lowest damage. Once your hand is empty, you can upgrade each bullets individually, but the order will always be highest to lowest.

Controls

You can also play with a controller.

Credits

• Designed and developed by Vidvad Games
• Music by Zerolag Gaming
• Additional VFX asset pack by Will Tice (unTied Games)
• Made with Godot Engine
• Pixel art made in Aseprite