bcatch – catch bullets and throw them back

December 15, 2008 by Owen
Filed under: development, games, shmup 

In the last week, I’ve been working on a little prototype called bcatch.  In this game, you don’t get your own gun, you have to absorb the enemies bullets and throw them back.

bcatch screenshot

Launch via webstart.

Controls:

e-s-d-f to move around.  Hold mouse1 to absorb bullets, release mouse1 to start shooting them.  They head towards your mouse pointer.

You get points for destroying a blue dot, the amount of points is larger depending on how long you shoot for.

The theme for this game comes from the first shmup-dev rapid prototype session. I didn’t participate at the time, but I’m going back to the old themes as they are a great creative and learning exercise.