Axe Man

Welcome to Axe Man, a 3D-top down boss rush created for the Boss Rush Jam 2025. 

Before you start each round, you will spin a wheel to randomly select which boss you will face and once you've defeated a boss they will be removed from the wheel. 

Your aim is to defeat each boss as quickly as possible while taking as little damage as you can, you will be given a score upon defeating each boss based on these two properties. Don't worry if you die, you'll simply need to spin for a new boss and continue until all are slain, however 50 points will be deducted from your final score for each death in your run.

If you manage to defeat all 6 bosses you will be able to submit your final score to the leaderboard. 100 points is available from each boss for a maximum score of 600 in a perfect completed run. The time to beat for each boss is 46.0 seconds, and any damage taken will reduce your score by 2 per damage.

Finally, Axe Man has 3 damaging abilities (Knife, Axe, Spear) which are thrown towards your cursor, a self-buff to increase your damage and a dash to avoid obstacles and gain momentary invincibility. Details for these abilities are below and can be tested in the tutorial.

Q - Throw Spear 

Deals 2 damage, marks enemy causing them to take double damage from your next ability.

W - Throw Axe

Deals 3 damage, if it hits an enemy it bounces back and can be picked up to reduce the cooldown of this ability.

E - Buff Self

Causes your next abilty to deal double damage

Left Mouse Button - Throw Knife

Deals 1 damage

Right Mouse Button - Move

Sets Axe Man's movement target

SPACE - Dash

Dash towards your cursor, costs 50 energy, you cannot be damaged while dashing

Except for the below all assets were created for this jam;

Player, Boss and Attack sound effects;

https://tommusic.itch.io/free-fantasy-200-sfx-pack

Fonts;

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Tilt+Prism

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Teko