KiloKitty has business in the next town over (a special deal on yummy catfood), but the evil no-flight droids are attempting to shoot down anything that flies through the night sky after curfew. Worse, they all look like oranges! (which KiloKitty personally hates)

This game was made for the pico-1k jam. Its source code is only 1009 characters out of the allowed 1024. The cartridge made for this site is slightly different than the one I submitted to the jam, though, as the character count included comments. This version has the game title and my name at the top so they'd appear in the label. I unfortunately didn't have enough space to include a menu or automatic resetting after a game over, so instead the game freezes intentionally so at least the player can get to see how well they did.

The only controls are O to shoot and d-pad to move. I was going to have X be a slow-down button for easier dodging, but it turned out to be not useful enough.

The numbers at the top-left are the number of enemies left. It doesn't count enemies that left the area, since they don't come back afterward (they have only one volley worth of ammo). The other number is score, which is gained by lasting longer at 10 points per second.

I don't know how good the average pico-8 player is at bullet hell shooters, but if it's too easy or too hard, feel free to change the part in the code where it says "L=5" to give yourself however many hits you think you'd prefer. 5 is the point where I can barely win. If you want to swap the controls, find and change "I&C" to say either "I&32" or "I&P" (the latter being one of the ways I saved on characters).

P#97449 2021-09-17 10:30