Shapeship

My second TIC-80 game and so far one of my favourite concepts. I wanted to make an R-Type-like game - fly to the right, shoot enemies, avoid bullets - and I wanted to add some kind of roguelike aspect to it. I did this with a ‘create your ship’ loop which I personally really love.

Each ‘pixel’ on your ship has a different purpose - a gun, a laser, an engine, etc etc. You’re given a different selection of pixels at the end of each 30-second round, and rarity depends on how many enemy drops of ‘scrap’ you pick up. Different pixels have different synergies when you place them near others - for instance, three guns in a line give you a bullet fan spread instead of firing in a line.

I think this is one of the better games I’ve made, and with dozens to hundreds more hours of work it could actually be quite playable. Sprites instead of solid colours; maybe rooms and bosses and so on like Star of Providence instead of right-scrolling; plenty of other options there.

I toyed with the idea of making it an autobattler, by adding an ‘autopilot’ pixel. I think that idea still has legs, and it could be fun to have to jump in yourself if your autopilot gets destroyed.

Controls

• Arrow keys to move
• Autofires

All these games are incomplete and broken. Caveat emptor