ASHMAW

You are the kaiju. Not the pilot, not the squad sent to stop it — the thing they are shooting at.

A containment force has cordoned off the block. They brought riot troopers and armour. You have five ways of taking that apart.

▶ Press play above. The first five waves run right here in your browser — no download, no purchase.

Five abilities, five different feelings

• EMBER ARC — one turn of the tail. The rear line goes up.
• SIEGE TOSS — grab a trooper and launch him into the rest of them.
• HULL PLOW — kick a wrecked hull and let it keep going. It hits everything on the way.
• SHOCKPLATE — clap once. Incoming shells drop out of the air.
• CINDER DROP — jump, hang, then bring the whole arena down with you.

Every one has its own wind-up, screenshake, hitstop and damage rhythm. HULL PLOW's wreck racks up an escalating chain as it slides — 34, 39, 44, 49, 54 — and watching that number climb across a whole line of troopers is the entire reason the ability exists.

What you get

Play in browser	First five waves, instantly, right on this page.
Free download	First five waves, plus the full showcase mode. No time limit, no nag.
Full version — $2.99	No wave cap. Endless escalation.

This is an early version and it is priced like one. All five abilities are finished and tuned; what is not in yet is the run structure.

What is coming

The full version becomes a roguelite run:

• Start a run with one ability instead of five
• After every wave, pick 1 of 3 — a new ability, an upgrade that changes how an existing one behaves, or a stat
• Bosses that are rival kaiju — and each one you beat becomes a starter you can pick next run
• Three sectors, three arenas, unlocks between runs

Buy now and that update is free. You will not be asked to pay twice, and the price goes up when 1.0 lands.

Controls

WASD    move                 Mouse   aim
J       EMBER ARC            K       SIEGE TOSS
L       HULL PLOW            U       SHOCKPLATE
SPACE   CINDER DROP
Enter   start      T   showcase      F2  English / 中文      Esc  quit

Windows 64-bit, single executable, no installer, no internet. Playable in English or Chinese.

Want the source?

The complete Godot 4 project — 8,400 lines of GDScript, the parametric art generators, the DSP audio synthesiser and the 152-case QA suite — is sold separately as ASHMAW Source. You can reskin it into your own game by editing a palette dictionary.

How it was made

No generative AI. None. Every sprite is produced by a Python generator in the repo — a limited palette, a spline spine, parametric armour plates and hand-specified part grids. Every sound is synthesised from oscillators, noise, filters and envelopes. There is no model output anywhere in the pipeline, which is why the AI disclosure on this page says No.

Built in Godot 4.6.3. Every build ships only after a 152-case automated suite runs the game with rendering on, plays every ability, exits through the real quit path, and fails on any engine warning or leaked resource.