Vortexion is a short MSX/SG-1000 inspired shooter.
Controls
Button 1: Shoot
Button 2: Pause
Instructions
WASD keys, Arrow keys, or gamepad D-pad to move.
Z/U key is button 1
X/I key is button 2
Source code
https://github.com/helpcomputer/vortexion
Credits
Designed by https://twitter.com/badcomputer0
Music generator - https://github.com/shiromofufactory/8bit-bgm-generator
Font by Damien Guard -https://damieng.com/
Made using Pyxel engine - https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars (29 total ratings) |
Author | badcomputer |
Genre | Shooter |
Tags | MSX,pyxel,sg-1000,Shoot 'Em Up,Short,Singleplayer |
Mentions | Top 20 Games From YouTube of August 2024 |
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I enjoyed this one quite a bit, reminds me of other bullet hells I've played, game froze and slowly drifted across my screen after beating the third boss but up till that point it worked beautifully, i like how each level area is easier/harder with each of the different ARM types, allows you to kind of decide the difficulty for yourself.
The game isn't working for me. :(
Title screen is a pink background with only the logo and buttons. Actual game is just a pink background and the ship. Controls work, but no enemies spawn, no level, no background, no sound. I even tried the web-launcher link, but it has the same problem.
Win 10, Firefox, no AdBlockers or anything like that.
Problem solved! I dunno what it was, because nothing I did fixed it. But I shut down my computer and left, then just now when I returned and rebooted my computer, it was working. Hooray!
Also, fun game! I love the style! It really reminds of all the classics from the 8-bit era, which was my favorite era for scrolling shooters.
This is inaccurate to real MSX/SG-1000 in one very important thing, a quirk that real TMS 9918/A hardware had. Real VDP / TMS 9918/A could only scroll in increments of 8 pixels / 1 tile per each scroll instance. Here the scrolling is smooth like in NES / Master System games, one generation later.
Except for that, it's a great game.