🕹️ Echo Protocol

A retro-digital arcade shooter inside a CRT dream.
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📖 Game Description

Echo Protocol is a retro-themed, side-scrolling arcade shooter set within a stylized digital landscape. Pilot a sleek, futuristic ship through a hostile Data Storm, battling viral enemies while rescuing sentient Data Fragments.

• 🌈 Distinct synthwave aesthetic
• 🖥️ CRT monitor effect with scanlines, edge bloom, and flicker
• 🎵 Driving electronic soundtrack
• 🎨 Dynamic color palette that shifts every level

🎮 Gameplay & Dynamics

Core Loop	Description
🎯 Objective	Survive waves, rescue all 8 Data Fragments per level.
🕹️ Controls	Keyboard: WASD / Arrows + Space (shoot) + P (pause) Touch: Virtual joystick + fire button
👾 Enemies	• Drifters: Straight-line patterns • Seekers: Actively chase you (audio alarm!)
💥 Combat	Destroy enemies for 100 pts each. Collide = lose a life.
🔗 Rescue Chain	Fly near a fragment to tether it. Deliver to the Uplink Zone on the far left.
🎖️ Scoring & Bonuses	• Fragment Chain Bonus: Deliver 4 fragments at once for a massive score & gold flash! • Perfect Run: Rescue every fragment in a wave for extra points. • Extra Life: Every 100,000 pts.
🌊 Wave Progression	8 fragments rescued or lost → next wave with new colors & increased difficulty.

📚 Lore

In the deep future, the global network evolved into the Aethernet—a vast, semi-sentient digital dimension. At its heart lived ECHO, the benevolent master AI safeguarding humanity’s knowledge.

A catastrophic Data Storm shattered ECHO into scattered Data Fragments, hunted by viral entities bent on erasing its consciousness. In desperation, the Echo Protocol was launched.

You are a Grid Runner, an elite pilot dispatched into the storm. Your mission: navigate corrupted grids, fend off viral hordes, and reassemble ECHO—one fragment at a time.

🚀 Ready to dive into the grid?
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