In the year 2184, decades after environmental collapse rendered Earth uninhabitable, humanity's last hope lies among the stars. The development of quantum propulsion technology finally enabled deep space exploration beyond our solar system, leading to the formation of the Space Exploration Fleet - a desperate mission to find a new home for our species. During this search, the project discovered Thalassa, a mysterious planet covered in vast oceans.

Initial scans revealed a promising habitable atmosphere but also massive energy signatures emanating from beneath the planet's waters. All unmanned probes sent to investigate were lost mysteriously. The Fleet has deployed their most advanced combat vessel, the Quantum Javelin. Equipped with experimental phase-shift technology that allows for instantaneous dashes through time and space, the Quantum Javelin represents humanity's best chance at uncovering the secrets hidden in Thalassa's depths.

Controls

Movement	WASD or arrow keys
Aiming	Mouse
Auto-fire	Hold C or J or left mouse button
Charge dash	Hold X or K or right mouse button

Hints and Notes

• Compete on the leaderboard on our time attack boss rush 2025 entry Quantum Javelin. Your times for each of the 4 bosses plus tutorial will be added as your overall score.
• Use your dash to avoid enemies, projectiles and big lasers
• Use your dash to damage enemies, the energy of your quantum drive is 16 times stronger than your projectiles
• The quantum drive will automatically execute a dash once its fully charged but you can release it earlier if needed (after the minimum charge)
• A fully charged dash will also recharge your shield
  
• Your shield will protect you from one projectile impact
• Your shield will not protect you against crashing into enemy areas or dashing into rock formations, buildings and energy fields
• You can dash through lasers, projectiles and some enemy areas but you cannot dash through rock formations, buildings and some energy fields
• If you are about to dash into a damaging zone a red cursor will indicate it

Boss Strategy guide

	Sentinel Prime: Avoid those spinning sawblades, dash through its arms to be able to hit its weak point on its head.
	Cancrorum Theta: This giant mechanical crab will sense your shots, try to maximize the damage of every hit by using your dash over multiple of its legs when they spin towards you.
	Spiras Viperae: This snake will spin around a central rock formation, make sure you spin around it as well to avoid its fire-power and seeking lasers and dash through its body to immediately destroy its segments.
	Mater Ovum: This cluster of buoys can shield themselves and overwhelm you with firepower. But they have to lower their shields before firing. There is a spinning pattern to their firing, spin around them to avoid their homing bullets and take cover behind the lasers by dashing through them.

Credits

• Game design and programming by Josep Valls.
• 3D Modeling and visual design by Krešimir Perić (Gvazaht).
• Sound design and original soundtrack by Torey Striffolino (Krobkrua).
• VFX from Cartoon Coffee (free VFX pack for the jam).
• Additional VFX by Larzes (licensed via Humble bundle).
• https://cyanglaz.itch.io/animated-crosshair-cursor-pack
• https://www.1001fonts.com/xirod-font.html
• https://www.1001fonts.com/ibm-plex-sans-condensed-font.html
• https://www.kenney.nl/assets/particle-pack
• https://www.kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts
• Additional VFX derived from several shaders on https://godotshaders.com/
• No AI

Known bugs

• We are aware of some slowdowns in the web build. We will upload a desktop build as soon as the game page is unlocked.
• Some explosions are offset a little bit. These are visual artifacts that should not affect gameplay.