Submission for the Bullet Hell Jam 2021
GAME DOES NOT USE THEME

Retro-inspired bullet hell shoot 'em up!

Inspired by Touhou series and retro games like Aero Fighters and Space Megaforce,  Sky Overflow is a classic shoot 'em up with bullet hell elements! 

Battle your way through a level full of enemies and bullets and try to defeat the boss!
Optimize your way and achieve the highest score possible!

Controls:

In-game:
Arrow keys - Move
Z - Shoot
X - Bomb
Left Shift - Focus

UI:
Arrow keys - Move
Z - Submit

Credits

This game is my entry for the Bullet Hell Jam 2021 and was made in 7 days. All programming and art/3d assets were made by me.
SFX generated in jfxr.frozenfractal.com

Music licensed by Waterflame (https://www.youtube.com/user/waterflame89) 
Waterflame - Galaxy Park (https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/589462) Waterflame - Fuzzy (https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/588392)

Development Notes

My second game jam ever, third-ish full/decent looking game developed. I'm a lot more experienced than my first jam, but still in the beginner-intermediate transition. I already had an idea for a bullet hell shoot 'em up game but never took the time to start making it, and this jam was the perfect moment. Couldn't think of anything with the 10 Seconds, but I could at least make a demo of my original idea. And the results are better than expected! Really fun working with shoot 'em up mechanics, specially bullet hell patterns.
There's a lot more that I wanted to do and will do sometime, but for a 7-day game jam, this first level ended up really nice. This ain't going to be the last of Sky Overflow for sure!

Known bugs

• FPS counter may or may not be right. Don't know for sure.
• Bullet Counter was a testing feature, but I really liked so it ended up on the final game. But apparently can display wrong numbers in very specific scenarios.