Shape Up
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A GAME MADE FOR THE 'BRACKEYS GAME JAM 2021.1' GAME JAM
Warning
This game has bright lights throughout the game. If that is an issue, be careful or don't play this game. It also has extremely loud music, so keep your volume low.
About
In this game, you'll be dodging many dangerous attacks in a quick and fast-paced bullet hell format! Exhilarating music cheers you on in the background as you play. Can you survive?
How to Play
This is a simple, but hard game. There are three bosses that you fight (three more if you count hard mode editions), scaling in difficulty as you go on. To beat a boss, you must dodge each of their attacks to get to the end alive. You may use the little circles to take a hit or use them to take the hit for you. It's really that simple.
Different Kind of Attacks
The bosses in this game have an assortment of different attacks. These are them with descriptions of how they work.
Single Bullet Shot - It is a singular square bullet that comes in your direction right away!
Wavy Single Bullet Shot - It is a single bullet like the single bullet shot attack, but this one slides left and right while going for you!
Multi-Bullet Fire - This is similar to the single bullet shot attack, but this one fires multiple bullets at once.
Homing Missile - This attack will follow your player for a short duration and then just continue straight. Be careful!
Long Triangle Throw - This attack will come at you and spin! Unlike most of the other attacks, this one won't break on collision with you, so be careful!
Triangle Spawner - This circle comes into the map and spawns little triangles that dash in your direction, but don't follow you like the missiles. The little triangles break on impact, but the spawner itself won't.
How does it match the theme?
In this game, there are tiny little circles that you can collect, and they will follow you around. If you get hit, you die, but if you have some of these balls, you take place as one of them. Since you can survive longer with other circles, I think of this as being 'Stronger Together'.
Credit
This game was made by ZachCreates. He used a few assets and tools from other creators which are listed below.
- ChipTone by SFBGames (itch.io) - An awesome sound effect creator!
- 5 Chiptunes (Action) | OpenGameArt.org - An epic pack of music!
- Humble Fonts - Free by somepx (itch.io) - A really good pack of fonts!
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Author | ZachCreates |
Genre | Survival |
Tags | Boss battle, Bullet Hell, dodge, Music, Singleplayer |
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Install instructions
If you are a Windows user, here are the instructions. If you aren't, I'm sorry, I'm not sure how you would run the files I have provided.
Windows
1. Download either the 32-bit or 64-bit Windows version.
2. Unzip the folder by right-clicking on the zipped folder and then selecting the 'Extract All...' option.
3. Go to the new folder that was created from extracting.
4. Run the .exe named 'Shape Up.exe'.
5. Have fun and enjoy!