Green Legion, The GuerraGames 2016

Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space in this shoot 'em up made with Pico-8. Instructions: Move your main ship around with the arrow keys; Shoot with ; Holding makes your ship go slower; Once you level up and gain extra ships you can do a power attack with ; Power attacks deal a lot of damage and clears all enemy bullets but it takes a while for the extra ship to cool-down and be useful again; Extra ships follow you around shooting forward; If your main ship gets destroyed, the next extra ship becomes your new main ship in its place; In short the extra ships are: lives, bombs and helpers in one. Features: Lots of bullets; Randomized procedurally generated enemies, mini-bosses and end-level bosses. Every play-through is different; 1 bullet hits the enemy = 1 experience point. Each experience level reached makes your ship more powerful by giving you one of these: extra-ships, increased bullet shooting rate or increased power attack and lower cool-downs; No penalty in death. You keep your experience points and experience level, you just restart the current level; 10 different levels and infinite new game pluses with increased difficulty. Influences: Shooters - Zanac, R-Type, Gradius, Cave Shmups, Recca, Raiden, 1942; Others - Metroid, Cookie Clicker, RPGs; Other Excellent Pico-8 Shooters - Astero, They Started It, Invader Overload, Buzzkill.
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