Plasma Storm (jam version)

A simple arcade shooter made in a few days for a space-themed game jam. Dodge an increasingly chaotic amount of enemy projectiles, collect stars to power up, and survive as long as you can.

Controls

• Move: ZQSD (you may swap to WASD or arrow keys by hitting Spacebar)
• Aim/Shoot: Mouse
• Pause: P (rudimentary)
• Restart: R
• Toggle fullscreen: 0
• Adjust scale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (you probably want to play at scale 2 or 3.)
• Exit: Escape

Tips

• Collect yellow stars to regain hit points, green stars to summon a temporarily ally, and blue stars to expand and improve your arsenal.
• Shoot enemy missiles to destroy them.
• Boomerang attacks come back, even after leaving the screen. Pay attention to where they disappear.

Known bugs

• Missiles cannot always be destroyed.
• On rare occasions, enemies may not pick a target.

The game has had absolutely no playtesting. It may contain more bugs, and it is definitely unbalanced. Your feedback is valuable!

Bug fixes
These were technically post-jam.

• Picking up a blue star will no longer crash the game.
• Some portals no longer disappear without spawning an enemy ship.
• Powerups can no longer be unreachable.
• HP gain from powerups is no longer unlimited.
• Added floating text.

• Master484 (opengameart) - Original ships and bullets
• helpcomputer (opengameart) - Explosions