Basic Barrage

Objective:

-Destroy all enemies on screen in a series of waves

Game-Play:

-Shoot enemies to drain their health and destroy them

-Dodge enemy bullets and charges by outmaneuvering their attacks

-Be cautions of your ship's health (top left), you can only take damage twenty-five times unless...

-Heal your ship's health and fill your spread-shot counter by collecting pickups dropped by destroyed enemies on given occasions

-Strategize when to use your spread-shot attack with the counter (top right), the amount of shots fired in a spread-shot attack is three times the amount in the counter (upon firing a spread-shot the counter will reset to zero)

-Reach new high scores by obtaining extra pickups or by destroying enemies that are about to charge/are charging at you

Controls:

-This game utilizes generic arrow key movement (left/right arrow keys to move left/right and up/down arrow keys to move up/down)

-Press and hold the X, V, or N keys to continuously fire generic shots at enemies (infinite supply)

-Press the Z, C, or B keys to unleash a special spread-shot attack (described above)

Additional Information:

-This is a hardened variant of my original Simple Shmup (see below) in which the frame rate has been increased to 60fps compared the 30fps in the original game (2x Speed)

-Other changes include revised: music , sounds effects, and gameplay

-All revised sprites, music, and sound effects within the game are original (self-created)

-This variant of my original project was created as a result of complaints that Simple Shmup was "TOO EASY!"

-There may be new unaddressed issues in this variant

-Play the Original Game Here!

Credits:

-Simple Barrage and Simple Shmup were made entirely possible by the Pico-8 Basic  Shmup Tutorial by Lazy Devs Academy

-All accreditation related to the code this game and the original were built on belongs to Lazy Devs Academy