How to play

Controls

  • Arrow keys to move
  • X to shoot
  • Z for blast
  • P to pause

Gameplay

Your energy is always depleting which can be seen on the bar at the bottom of the screen. When it is empty you will lose a life. You can gain energy by defeating enemies and collecting orbs.

Energy bar

Gif of energy bar depleting


Enemies drop coins, energy orbs, random powerups, and magic. Coins can be used to purchase upgrades after each level, energy orbs will refill your energy, random powerups will give the player a randomly chosen effect, and magic will increase your magic percentage.

Coin

Coin

Orb

Energy orb

Powerup

Random powerup

Magic

Magic star

Collecting magic stars will increase your magic percentage. When it reaches 100% you can use Z to perform a blast.

Magic percentage

Gif of the magic percentage counting up

Description

A short transfem themed shmup for the 2023 Transrep Jam

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorpunkweight
GenreAction
Made withPICO-8
TagsCute, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Queer, Shoot 'Em Up

Download

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witch_blaster_v1_windows.zip 957 kB
witch_blaster_v1_osx.zip 3 MB
witch_blaster_v1_linux.zip 715 kB
witch_blaster_v1_raspi.zip 2 MB

Comments

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(+1)

This was really fun!!! The aesthetic is really cute and it controls pretty well!

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thank you!

(+1)

real cool little shoot'em up... the gamefeel of the witch is good...

thank you!

(+2)

This is super cute. I'm also a trans pico-8 developer. Keep up the good work

thank you!