1k-shmup

About

My #Pico1k 2023 jam submission, a shoot 'em up written in 1024 compressed bytes for Pico-8.  I wanted to capture some of the polish from Lazy Devs Academy's first shmup tutorial, but without having use of the sprite sheet and sfx.

Features

• Sprites created at runtime from ascii
• Some lerping mid-wave
• Invulnerability after getting hit
• Gradual difficulty increase
• Very rudimentary sound effects with what bytes I had left

Controls

Directional to move and O / Z to shoot

On the GAME OVER screen you need to reboot the cart (because I ran out of bytes!)