Bullet Hell
THERE IS A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM
IT IS YOU
DESTROY THAT WHICH THREATENS YOU
Made as a throwback to my old late-2000s-era arcade games. Photosensitivity warning - it gets a bit flashy.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Northern Born - Tilt
Fonts: Clayton
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The year is 2020. Out of nowhere, Earth splits into two, spouts a body and legs, and gains sentience. We've been entered into the Planetary Destruction Tournament, an 8-planet tournament where only the winner gets to survive un-obliterated.
Earth is Death On Two Legs. Prove it.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Helvetica, Lost Paradise
“Review” - Reviewer
Avoid wave after wave of thousands of tiny mines being wrought upon you by Death as you jingle your way around the Maypole as Morris.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
“The music is fun, the theme interpretation a bit loopy ;)” - qst0
“The music is VERY catchy and actually quite soothing, especially those soft bass pulses :D” - WangleLine
”That was funny and a nice interpretation of the theme. Catchy music and nice gameplay... but can I please get my eyes back? xD” - Gojirana
”the punny title is genius” - Eva
Do you like rainbows? Well, tough shit. Prepare to hate rainbows in Xporadic, a game where thousands of bullets will fly around the screen threatening your very person.
Available for free for PC and Android. Both versions are completely free, ad-free and no-strings-attached.
System: Windows, Android
Price: Free
Music: KitaKhyber
Fonts: Allison James
“I love Infinite Sporadic as it is. Now I love it more.” - Moonvalk
”It seems like no matter what I do, it won't make a difference above wave 20 or so, but it doesn't really bother me because it looks great.” - Milkyandingding
”Great game.” - Runewake2
If games could do the dirty and make babies, the parents of Infinite Sporadic would be PixHell and Head Candy. An intense bullet hell in which you must avoid wave after wave of patternous red lines.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: KitaKhyber
Fonts: Garage Gothic FB
“Review” - Reviewer
Another "quickie", Acid R[ai/eig]n was the result of an idea I had around 10pm last night. By midnight it was this game. It may suffer lag if you're really good at it, but it should hopefully be minimised now (I released it as a direct link over Twitter last night which suffered it a lot harder).
Anyway, in Acid R[ai/eig]n, you are in control of the growth of a tree. You can use Z and X to rotate the curvature of branches currently growing. Every three seconds, branches will split into two separate ones. As the tree ages, or as acid rain makes contact with it, it begins to die. Holes will start to form in branches, which need to be patched up. The game ends when 100 droplets of acid rain hit the floor.
It's an arcade game, not the most variety-filled thing ever but probably worth a quick single play. Trees can be very pretty to look at, I've left the F9 screenshot function in if you want to take some screenies of your trees and share them.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Abscondo - Morning Rain
Fonts: OCR A
“The music and the gameplay were good. Coding this is waaay beyond me, and i'd be interested to see how it was made.” - DeadProfile
RKF, or Rhythmic Kicking Firehead, is a shooter mixed with a rhythm game. You don't actually have to do anything in time with anything - the game automatically fires for you, and its firing sets off drum sounds. An ever-increasingly intense wall of black circle things comes towards you, which you must shoot to eradicate.
At the end, the number of verses multiplied by the number of circles you killed makes up your final score.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Robust ICG
“The inclusion of rhythm in this game won me over. Maybe I'm easily pleased?” - KniteBlargh
”Great game, I die every time when you lose a lot of the beat.” - Reigalius
”Nice Game I dlove the music and the bullets acts like they are in harmony :)” - Amidos
Made in an hour. Short, difficult bullet hell. You're a pixel. Avoid the other pixels that stream out around the centre of the room en masse.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: TerraNation
Fonts: Allison James (Notalot35)
“Most fun I've had in a long time. Thanks.” - Reigalius
”all you do is dodge bullets” - The Afterlife Games
Made in an hour. Simple shooter where two chains release a series of nodes. You can’t crash into them, but you can shoot them to kill them.
The game’s not all that fun, and past the 300-point mark will probably start to lag a bit cuz of all the bad coding, but screw it. Thought I’d share it anyway!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Unknown
Fonts: Poplar Std
A short, first attempt at bullet hell, and a little bit of playing with lines. Lines don’t hurt you but the little squares do, so avoid them at all costs.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: ?
