Nightmare Busters (3TG Nov 2025)

This is our submission for the Three Things Game Jam at The University of Hull. Our 3 themes were: Dreaming, Visiting and Mayhem.

This is an action arcade style game about surviving a nightmare filled dreamscape, finding upgrades and setting high scores.

Since the game was developed in a short time (3 days), please excuse and report any design issues, unadjusted UI elements, or other bugs you may encounter. 

We're looking forward to your feedback!

Controls:

Up, Down, Left, Right / W, A, S, D: Movement.

Left Shift: Sprint.

Left Mouse: Vacuum suction.

Right Mouse: Vacuum blowout.

Mouse: Aim and  Interact with the building placement elements and upgrading system.

The game also supports controllers.

Gameplay:

• You can use your vacuum gun to suck in the nightmares with the left click, and with right click blow them back at other ghosts.
• Red ghosts can be sucked in, the green ghosts cannot, you can kill both ghosts by blowing ghosts back at them.
• You make money by killing ghosts, use this money to create tower defense systems that will help you survive.
• When you kill enemies with blow-back attacks you will see a slot machine system that will award you with a random power-up.
• Try to survive as long as you can!

Team:

• Erkam Uzuncayir [itch.io page]
• Aaron Morgan Jones [itch.io page ]
• Javier Serranno Solis [itch.io page]
• Ali Moghimi [itch.io page]

References:

• Special thanks to gummybearking123 (link to their itch.io page) for the beautiful art piece which we used in the thumbnail and banner of our itch.io page ("Nightmare Busters" logo and further modifications to the thumbnail were made by our team.)
• Isometric Ground Grass Tileset by hernandack: (link)
• Radiant Pixel Dreamscape HD Wallpaper by CodePixelTW: (link)
• OpenGameArt - Slot machine resource pack by Cougarmint: (link)
• [The rest to be added]