Hi, I'm Torsten (he/him) aka Donswelt and I'm an indie game developer from Germany.
And It's Over
On a rather shitty day in August 2024, the world changed forever. Mankind was invaded and completely annihilated by alien invaders from outer space. To make matters worse, Antonette was on the verge of winning for the first time at her regular bingo night. As everyone around her turned into particles, she not only survived, but evolved into something more powerful and angry. So she turned her wrath on the invaders who had killed all her friends and rained on her bingo parade.
About
And It's Over is a single level bullet hell shmup with a nod to bonus letters from a bygone era. Back in the day, you could master arcade games by collecting the word "bonus" to get a higher score. It also features a bingo game mechanic using the bonus letters to unlock over 16 alternative color schemes.
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Hauler
Welcome to the Zeta Sector in a remote part of the Milky Way. You are a Space Trucker for the Eastwood Mifune Cooperative. Your job is to transport cargo and people from one space station to another. Or deliver a delicious Moloko Shake from a diner to a customer.
Explore a compact sector of the galaxy with planets to scan, jobs to complete, and Easter eggs to discover. Only one thing seems to be missing: Good coffee. Can you solve the mystery of where to get it?
What you can do
- Docking at stations to accept fetch quests.
- Fuel scoop at stars.
- Collect salvage or mine resources to sell.
- Scan planets to document the sector.
- Use your friendship drive to jump to other systems.
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Henry Jr and the Satchel of Doom
You are a famous professor of archaeology and you have found a secret cave somewhere in the deepest jungle of the Americas. Luckily, you came prepared with your trusty satchel. It is a satchel, not a handbag! But it is also doomed. It seems there is always room for more, no matter how many artefacts you stuff into it. Like your greed! Unfortunately, you have no choice but to travel deeper into the cave to find more artefacts.
Avoid shooting skulls, flying blocks, deadly traps and ugly nazis.
Update 1
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in a bonus game loop. Hopefully 🤞
How to play
Avoid falling and flying blocks: ⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️
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A simple wallpaper with the rain effect and animations I made for Tiny Ronin (PICO-8).
Make sure you have already created your personal system folder inside Picotron and copy tiny-rain.p64.png to appdata/system/wallpapers/ and/or appdata/system/screensavers/
Go to the system settings inside Picotron and select "tiny rain" as wallpaper or screensaver.
Enjoy.
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Want to get seasick while coding in Picotron? I got you covered! I made a Picotron wallpaper based on my latest PICO-8 game Jaw.
Make sure you have already created your personal system folder inside Picotron and copy jawpaper.p64.png to appdata/system/wallpapers/ and/or appdata/system/screensavers/
Go to the system settings inside Picotron and select "jawpaper" as wallpaper or screensaver.
Enjoy.
Update 2024-04-09: Added Icon and metadata.
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Jaw
> The year is 1974. You just got out of the theater and saw that scary shark flick. As you walk home thinking about the movie, you pass an arcade and there it is: A brand-new game based on the movie you just saw. You check your pockets for quarters. Let's do this.
This is my entry for the 2024 FishFest Game Jam. Help Kalea the shark get her dinner. But beware! Barrels of gunpowder, harpoons, and a guy named Quint are out to hurt you. Try to string fish bites together for more points.
How to play
Hold Z or X and release to jump out of the water and eat fish.
Avoid barrels, harpoons and oxygen tanks!
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Tiny Ronin 🎋
You are a tiny ronin cursed with immortality for the crime of killing 100 samurai. To regain mortality and escape the endless grind, you have sworn to kill 10,000 bandits. This is your story. It will never end.
Hold X to charge your sword and release to slash. Press Z to roll backwards and avoid incoming attacks. You can cancel your attacks with the roll or another attack.
To start a new run after death, you must clean your sword (hold X or Z).
There are now eight achievements to unlock. Three of them will change the look of the game.
Update 1
Rewind Selector!
With the first update you can now toggle the rewind feature in the PICO-8 pause menu. Turn it on to make enemies back off after a successful kill.
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Just a calculator, but with a fiery twist. My wife came up with the name, so I had to add a little mascot :) It's a fully functional calculator. At least I hope it is. Better not do your homework or taxes with it ^^;
Update: Fixed some odd behaviour and added a button to make numbers negative or positive.
Update 2: Fixed the behaviour of the % key, added partial keyboard support (at least the numbers are working), a custom icon and meta date.
Things to do:
- Button feedback
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144 Floors
Welcome to the Silo. You are a porter and you have to deliver your parcels to the recipients who live and work on 144 floors. Start your shift and work 24 floors or take on the big challenge from floor 1 to floor 144. But beware! Competing porters will try to steal your parcels and keep the tips for themselves. Good thing you are prepared for the Law of the Stairs: Battle by dice! Every confrontation is decided by a round of High Low. That's how the ancestors of the Silo declared it, and that's how it must be done.
How?
D-pad or arrow keys to go up and down the stairs.
D-Pad or arrow keys to place your bet (up: higher or down: lower)
Buttons or z, x to use a smartbomb (auto-win)
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Trick or Three
I made this for Halloween 2022 and missed the deadline. Picked it up again a few weeks ago and found a nasty bug. It turned out to be bad code, which I am really good at. I rewrote most of the routines and now it seems to work 😅.
Update #2
Minor overhaul: I updated the cart with some minor fixes:
- new SFX
- new title screen
- deleted some unused stuff
- minor optimization
Update
Added a routine to detect proper gaps all over the cauldron. Apparently I needed a shitty day at work to come up with this.
How to play
Use the arrow keys or d-pad to move around the cauldron. Hold down x, z or any controller button on a tile and move it around the cauldron with the arrow keys or d-pad. Match at least three tiles of the same type to remove them from the cauldron. But beware: Don"t create gaps in the cauldron! They prevent you from moving tiles around the cauldron and will cost you a life. Try to match as many tiles as possible to refill the cauldron.
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Mono Cho-Han 🎲🎲
Night has fallen and it has begun to rain as you enter the inn. Two people and the dealer are sitting on the tatami floor. they kindly ask you to join their game of Cho-Han.
You agree.
The Rules
The rules are simple. The dealer shakes two six-sided dice in a bamboo cup. The cup is then tipped onto the floor. Players then place their bets (1, 3 or 6 mon) on whether the sum of the numbers on the two dice will be "Cho" (even) or "Han" (odd). The dealer then removes the cup and reveals the dice. Winners receive double their bet.
If any player runs out of money, the game is over. If the bank runs out of money, the game is also over. The bank runs out of money when a player reaches over 99 Mon.
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The Yokohama Coffee Shop ☕️
Welcome to Yokohama! The year is 2121. Mankind is dead. Robots still work in certain facilities to maintain the power supply. Between shifts, they visit coffee shops to experience what humans called a 'coffee break'. You are an android barista and your job is to serve your customers quickly.
This is my entry for the Cre8 Jam. I struggled for a few days after the theme was announced, but luckily I was reading Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou at the time, and this really beautiful solar punk manga is about a robot barista in a post-apocalyptic world serving coffee to the few humans (and robots) left in the area. It seemed like a good fit, so I decided to make a Tapper-like game with robots and coffee, and added some flickering neon signs for good measure.
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Four Fingers of Death 👊✋✌️
A rock-paper-scissors video game in a street fighter like evoirment? Yes, that is a stupid idea and I love stupid ideas. I made this little game in one day so no damage is done and not much energy was wasted.
It turns out it is very accessible since you only need one finger to play it and you got all the time in the world to decide what you want to do next.
It's further accessible even without the need to press any keys at all: If you find someone to start the game and activate auto-battle for you.
How to play
Press C to start game.
Press left arrow, down arrow or right arrow to choose your weapon: rock, paper, scissors respectively.
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It's High Noon
This is my PICO-8 remake of Ocean Soft's Highnoon, originally made for the C64 by Andrew Spencer and Steve Wiggins.
There are a lot more bullets on screen in my version and the gameplay is much faster. Also there are no abducted saloon girls in my game since they are all pretty much capable of defending themselves.
How to play: Waves
- Use the D-pad or arrow keys to move around.
- Shoot by tapping or holding the primary button or x.
- Hold down the secondary button or c to keep firing in the same direction.
How to play: Duels
Wait for the games title plate to vanish and the "Draw!" text to appear on screen and shoot quickly using the primary or secondary button. Shoot too early and you will lose a life.
Hints
- Shoot outlaws early during the levels to get a higher bonus at the end of a wave in duels.
- Keep moving around since outlaws will always shoot in your general direction.
- You can exit the screen to the left and right to reappear on the opposite side. Use this to your advantage to avoid bullets.
- From wave three onwards outlaws will throw dynamite sticks at you. Shoot the dynamite to kill outlaws.
- Horses (wave 4 onwards) can't kill you but the riders might.
The Bountydex
In duels you will fight a variety of outlaws with randomly generated names and titles. There are ten special titles that can be collected in your Bountydex by shooting them in duels. Since it is a chance of like 1000:1 to meet one of these titles exactly there are two ways of unlocking these titles.
Let's take a look at the second item, the Blind Barber.
Now let's say you meet a Furious Barber in a duel and you shoot them. Justice in the Wild West was just a word and since you shot a barber, the item will be crossed off your Bountydex with one stroke even if it was not a blind barber. After all how many wanted barbers can there be?
Now let's say you got really lucky and you meet the Blind Barber against all the odds. You shoot them and their title will be crossed off the Bountydex with two strokes. It might be not possible to meet the exact titles for the entire Bountydex but you are welcome to try.
And yes: many innocent barbers were shot in the Wild West.
To access the Bountydex press down on the title screen. Press up to get back to the title.
Bonus game: High-Low
There is also a hidden bonus game of dice. To access it, press right on the title screen.
You can bet on how you think the numbers of the next roll of dice turn out compared to the displayed pair of dice: higher or lower. Bet your money accordingly to raise your high score.
By the way: The more entries you got collected in your Bountydex the more money you start out with.
I actually researched dice games of the old west and it appears that back in the days people really played this game besides poker.
Update v1.1 Hotfix
- Fixed a bug where you lost all lives when you got shot after earning an extra life.
Update v1.2
- Added a money cap for the High-Low mini game to prevent PICO-8 from going nuts.
- Added a few more outlaw names for good measure.
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Vampachi v1.1
Dodge, evolve, survive! This is my PICO-8 take on Vampire Survivors. As a vertical shmup. It started out way more Vampire Survivors-like and turned out way more shmup-like. At least it's not just a clone.
Story
Yeah, sure. Okay, well: Help vampire hunter Liz Belmont to survive until dawn. Except dawn will never come. Sorry.
Features
Endless survival shmup gameplay
15 types of enemies
4 types of bosses
10 upgradable abilities and weapons including:
- A god-worthy hammer
- An adorable bee
- A Pac-Man
- A fluffy sheep
- A Croissant
- Melee damage
- up to 8-way shooting (completely automated)
How to play
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This is just another block breaker. I wanted to make one for a long time now. This one is tiny, fast-paced and unforgiven.
The first three stages are always static. After that you get randomized levels. The blocks with the exclamation marks need two hits and are shooting at you when you remove them. Every few levels there is a boss block to defeat.
There are four different extras to pick up:
Red pill: laser (destroy bricks in front of the bat)
Blue pill: Super ball (moves through bricks)
Yellow pill: Closes the wall at the bottom of the screen for a short time so it's save for the ball to hit the bottom edge.
Green pill: Glue that glues the ball on your bat for two times.
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Finished my new game: Escape from Höll. It's about a demon from Höll who wants to escape it. Shoot other demons and their blood will move the elevator upwards. You can shoot in five different directions and there are five types of enemies. There are twelve different bonus items to help you along the way like bullet time oder smart bombs.
Hint: If you got hit, you need to pick up your gold again or your score resets to zero! Blame Elden Ring.
UPDATE #1: Fixed a few issues with the music, i.e. I learned about reserving channels :P I will add better music in a future update.
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I have updated my single screen farming game with some things I have been thinking about for a while:
Update 1.4
- Rain now waters the crops.
- Crops don't rot anymore.
- New RNG routine for fishing.
- Added a cooldown period for fish in the pond.
- Fish indicator added.
- Added fish and food dex.
- Cat happiness cooldown reduced.
- Added text prompt for workout routine.
- Playtime counter fixed. Unfortunately, the game time has been reset.
- Added indicator to save remaining stats. Disclaimer: Almost all stats are saved immediately after being updated. Only playtime and cat happiness are saved every minute.
Update 1.3b
- removed a small bug.
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Valentine's Update v1.2 ❤️
I updated most of the visuals of Crazy Samurai Musashi and you now have an additional heart/life. Love is in the air. And blood. Here's what else is new:
- More detailed sprites
- Added heat effect to sun
- Added stars to the night sky
- Reworked the blood splatters
- Added dirt splatters to running swordsmen
- Added a skull to appear when you slay an enemy
- New sound effects
- Fixed the flipping of the moth animation
- Added the moth to the title screen because why not?
- Added Pliso Miso splash screen
Quick Fix v1.3
- Added an option to skip the slow beginning for experienced players (suggested by @baker 👍)
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Update 2.0: Debrix, a Debris Remix
- A complete overhaul of all sprites and special effects.
- added the Pliso Miso splash screen.
Enjoy!
Update v1.2:
- added Achievements (press down arrow on title screen to check)
Update v1.1:
- (hopefully) fixed a bug that displayed 0 seconds instead of 120 seconds after time out.
Original Post
This one is just a small shoot'em-up (shmup) with a little twist or as I like to call it: A Shmup Short Story.
The rules are simple:
- Try to survive 120 seconds.
- Shoot debris to raise bonus.
- Beat the hi-score.
That's all.
Shoot enemies, juggle debris, collect coins, survive. Juggling debris will raise the bonus you get for destroying enemies. Every time your bonus is raised by 50 points all bullets on the screen will turn into gold items. Collect those for additional 75 points each.
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