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
\header{Run this command within the Picotron terminal}{run-this-command-within-the-picotron-terminal}
load loopblaster.p64
\header{You can then press CTRL+R to run the game}{you-can-then-press-ctrl+r-to-run-the-game}

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