God Tier TantrumStress Relief Smasher

Game overview

God Tier Tantrum is a stress-relief toy with the controls of a platform fighter. You're Omega Blitz, a ridiculously overpowered and extremely loud hero, locked in a room with something annoying. Bounce it off the walls, keep the combo going, and finish it with a hit that sends it through the wall, into a mountain, down through the planet or straight into the sun.

Nothing fights back. The victims never threaten you, so there's no way to lose and nothing to dodge. The whole game is the spectacle of the smash: juggling, ricocheting, stacking up damage, and one bombastic finish.

It plays like a closed-room Super Smash Bros with a dash of Nanaca Crash and Street Fighter II's car-smashing bonus stage, and its hero is a loving parody of the bootleg anime super-warriors of Newgrounds-era Flash cartoons: loud, explosive and over the top to an excessive degree.

Controls and interface

You control Omega Blitz in side view, in a single closed room. Every action key does a basic move on its own, and a power move when you press a direction with it: up, down, forward or back.

The design also sketches a mouse-aimed layout for rooms seen from above or in zero gravity: WASD moves in every direction, the mouse sets the facing, the mouse buttons attack, use an alternate move, block and grab, Shift dashes, and the number keys fire swappable abilities.

Game layers

1. 01 · Moment-to-moment

   One room, one victim

   

   A closed room: walls, floor and ceiling, a few active hazards inside it, and nastier ones waiting outside. In it is one victim. You knock it around the walls, juggle it, bounce it off bumpers and through saws, and build the combo until it's ready to break.

2. 02 · Low metagame

   Ten rooms to the Baron

   

   A run is a gauntlet of ten rooms: the Baron's gadgets, vehicles and gloom-bots first, then the Baron himself in the last. Each run draws its rooms, victims and hazards fresh, so the order and the matchups change every time. When the Baron flies, the city's lights come back on and the credits roll.

3. 03 · High metagame

   Nothing more, on purpose

   

   There's no upgrade tree, no currency and no meta-progression to work toward. This is a small toy with a beginning and an end, and the reason to play again is simply that smashing things is fun. Each finished run is a short, complete release, not a step on a ladder.

4. 04 · Practical game flow

   A coffee break

   

   A room takes a minute or two, and a whole run about as long as a coffee break. Pause anywhere, stop between rooms, and the run waits for you.

Game modes

The gauntlet is the game: ten reshuffled rooms ending with the Baron.

A single room is the toy on its own: pick a room and a victim, and smash for as long as you like, with no gauntlet around it.

Features and mechanics

1. The engine of it

   The combo clock

   

   Every hit starts a short window before the victim recovers, and every hit inside the window resets it, a little shorter each time. As long as the chain holds, the damage stacks and multiplies, shown as a percentage the way Smash Bros shows it.

   The chain ends one of two ways: the windows get too short to keep up with, or the stacked damage passes what the victim can take. Either way, that's the moment for the finisher.

2. The heart of it

   Through the wall

   Push the victim's damage high enough and a finishing blow breaks it through the room's surfaces. Where it ends up depends on which way you hit it:

   Direction	What happens
   Sideways	It flies off and obliterates a mountain on the horizon
   Down	It goes clean through the planet and out the other side, or punches a neat little hole that a tombstone pops up to plug
   Up	It flies into the sun and goes poof
   Point blank	It vaporizes or bursts apart on the spot

   The finish exists for its own sake: a short, loud animation of something annoying going a very long way.

   

3. Something to hit

   Victims with personalities

   Each victim moves differently, so each room asks for a different kind of combo:

   Victim	How it behaves
   The getaway car	Like Street Fighter II's bonus car, except it flies all over the room, more mangled with every hit, until it explodes
   The dummy squad	A team of flimsy wireframe dummies that go down easily
   The safe	A heavy static thing that stays put in the middle of the room
   The bouncer	A lightweight thing that ricochets everywhere
   The anchor	Something pulled back to the center that resists being moved away
   The holdout	Something that has to be pushed back hit by hit until it falls off a ledge, like Super Metroid's Crocomire
   The stack	A pile of barrels and crates, all of it at once

   None of them ever attacks you. They exist to make the room more interesting to smash in, not to make it hard.

4. Directional everything

   One button, five moves

   

   Each action key does a basic move alone and a power move with each of the four directions, so a handful of keys makes a full move list without memorizing a single input string.

   Under the hood almost every attack is the same simple thing: it spawns a hitbox, pushes whatever is inside it, pushes you a little too, adds damage, and starts a short cooldown before the next action. A projectile is the same hitbox flying on its own. Move while you attack and the hitbox slides along with your momentum, so a running swing covers more of the room.

5. Grab a new style

   Move sets you pick up

   

   Items in the rooms carry move sets, the way Kirby takes on a power from whatever he swallows. Grab one and your attack, special and defend keys do something new. The sets you've picked up stay on Q, Mega Man–style, so you can swap between them whenever you like.

6. The room is a weapon

   Hazards inside and out

   

   Inside the room, the hazards are active ones that push and hurt: saws, beams, bumpers and other things that throw the victim back into play and keep a combo going.

   Static hazards like spikes and lava are too dull to bounce things off, so they sit outside the walls instead, where they're the landing for a finisher: smash a victim through the wall and straight onto the spikes.