A 2D shooter game with a unique mechanic, built with Picotron.

This game was my submission for the GMTK Game Jam 2025. I used this opportunity to create my first game in Picotron and my first project with the Lua programming language.

• 8-directional normalized player movement.

• Scaled enemy spawning and difficulty algorithm based on score, and other factors.

• Shop with multiple player upgrades (includes a small Button UI library).

• Rectangle bounded collision detection.

• 2 different enemy drops and extra features to explore!

This project contains a .p64 file which can be loaded given you have the following prerequisites:

• Picotron

Once you have picotron installed you may copy the loop_blaster.p64 file to your picotron application folder load the file via:

bash
# Run this command within the Picotron terminal
load loopblaster.p64
# You can then press CTRL+R to run the game

As with all other projects in this playground, the license is CC BY-NC.