Bullet Swell

A small bullet hell game made for Bullet Hell Jam 6 ( https://itch.io/jam/bullet-jam-6 ).

I pretty much ignored the theme ”Unstable” for the jam! Didn’t think of a a good spin on it and wanted to make this game.

PICO-8 cart available at https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148932 as well

You just try and survive as long as possible as more and more bullets try to get you. You do have a bomb and get another one every 30 seconds (if you make it that far...). There are local high scores so you can try and improve over time.

It's inspired by this old game called TKKN / Crazygame that I used to play way too much like 20 years ago - the only record I can find of it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NarRBrpmY . I've added different type of bullets and bombing, and it's a lot more cramped due to the PICO-8 resolution, so it has a bit of a different vibe.

My first PICO-8 game made in the small hours of the evening during the last week or so, so the code is pretty horrible. Major thanks to Krystman and the Lazy Devs PICO-8 shmup tutorial series!