How to Play
Shmoopy is an arcade style shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by 1981's arcade shooter Galaga. Take control of your blue spaceship and combat your way through waves of aliens to face the final challenge: Shmoopy.
Rules
In Shmoopy, enemies approach in waves, shooting at and trying to collide with the player. Your ship has lives, when you get hit by an enemy or an enemy bullet, you lose a life. Lose all your lives, and it's game over. When you lose, you can choose to continue at your current wave, but with the score reset. Or you can choose to go back to the start and try from the beginning.
Controls
- Press the arrow keys to move your ship
- Press Z or N or C to shoot
- Press X or M or V to use your bomb
Bomb
Your bomb clears all enemy bullets from the screen and deals a moderate amount of damage to all enemies. Use it to get out of a tight spot instantly. But beware: they come in limited supply.
Pickups
During the game, enemies will drop a pickup when you earn a certain number of points. This pickup will flash between a life pickup and a bomb pickup. Collect it at the right time to increase either your lives or bombs by one.
Scoring
Shoot enemies to increase your score. The score an enemy type gives depends on its difficulty. Enemies that are attacking (moving down toward the player) give double the points when shot down.
Credits
Shmoopy has been solo-developed by Red Chicken, including the design, programming, and creation of the sound effects and music. It was developed using the PICO-8 game engine.
It is based on the Making a Shmup tutorial series by @Krystman, which served as the starting point and foundation for Shmoopy's design.
It uses code from the Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1 cart, written by @krajzeg and made available under the Creative Commons License. This code is responsible for the tentacles of Shmoopy.
The game also available on itch.
https://redchickendev.itch.io/shmoopy
Feedback is welcome
Any feedback and/or suggestions are most welcome. Feel free to leave a comment!
Thank you very much for playing!
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