Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15MI09dmqlaAucbtGMeh99hhdjz2mfsc7/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106735032634943173947&rtpof=true&sd=true

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes, another Team member double checked

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarise your game!
The Player is a sentient Musical Artificial Intelligence named Sound.wav whose goal is to infect the world. Fight through Malware, Firewalls, and Glitches and absorb their abilities to increase musical prowess to be downloaded by more Humans to further infect the world through Musical Combat. The game combines top-down, auto attacker gameplay with rhythmic combat and a musical theme where some enemies and abilities are tied to instruments and sound.

Controls:

● WASD: Movement

● Mouse: Aim

● 1 - 5 Num Keys: Mixer control to switch between amplification of instruments:

1. Balanced: Default mode, standard attack.

2. Bass: Area-of-effect (AOE) damage.

3. Strings: High-damage single-target attacks.

4. Brass / Woodwind: Damage-over-time (DoT) effects.

5. Synth: Crowd control (CC) abilities like slows or stuns.

● Hold Left Mouse Button: Activate Solo Ability, Releasing Left Mouse Button Cancels Solo Ability

● Hold Left Mouse Button + Input Sequence (12345): Activate solos for special abilities.

Please explain how your game fits the theme:
Player is a Musical AI Program that is working it's way to infect the world. As a Musical entity, it's data attacks are represented as literal Music Attacks against various Defenses like Firewalls, Malware and Glitched code. The Players power grows as it infects more of the world, destroying and absorbing remnants of defenses and musical data to grow it's influence and power.

Is there anything you'd like the judges to pay particular attention to?
We wanted the game to have a distinct layered music that is reflected in the instruments (weapons / band members) that you gain while progressing through the Stage. We focused heavily on adding rhythm to the game because we had 2 Musicians in the team and wanted their abilities to shine.