Premise and Credits:

A short wave based retro top-down shoot 'em up made in PICO-8. Inspired by and largely based on Lazy Devs' Shmup tutorial series.

A few assets (some sprites, all of the music) were made by the Lazy Devs community!

Controls:

Keyboard: Arrow keys to move, C / Y to shoot, X / V to use bombs

PS Controller: D-Pad / Left Joystick to move, △ / X to shoot, ◯ / ▢ to use bombs

XBOX Controller: D-Pad / Left Joystick to move, A / Y to shoot, X / B to use bombs

Rules:

• Complete all 9 waves and defeat the boss to beat the game
• 3 lives indicated by 3 shields in the upper left corner
• Defeated enemies earn you points and can drop yellow fruits
• Yellow fruits can be used as ammunition for bombs or healing
• More fruits = more bombs shot in a spread pattern (all stored fruits will be used; you need at least 1 fruit to shoot bombs; you can't store more than 10 fruits!)
• Healing: collecting 10 fruits will restore 1 shield
• Any additional fruits collected above 10 will yield bonus points when picked up!
• Any remaining shields (up to 3) and unused fruits (up to 10) will count as bonus points at the end of the game!

Have fun :)