TICARUGA

A demake of Ikaruga's first stage, made for the Demake Jam 2018. My third TIC80 game as well!

In Ticaruga you are the pilot of the Ticaruga ship, which is capable of changing it's polarity (its color) between black and white. The game twist comes in the fact that only bullets of the opposite color as your ship will cause damage to you: so, for instance, while on the White polarity only black bullets will destroy your ship, and vice versa for the Black polarity and white bullets.

CONTROLS

Arrow keys: move;
Z: Shoot;
X: Change polarity.

Credits

Engine: TIC80;
Code editor: Sublime Text 3;
Music/Sound: TIC80's tracker;
Sprites and tilemaps: Aseprite.

I (Delta-key) did the coding and the tracking, and Sklaiser made those great sprites.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, Linux, HTML5
Rating	Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars (4 total ratings)
Authors	Escada Games, Sucraiso
Genre	Shooter
Made with	Aseprite, TIC-80, Sublime Text
Tags	Demake, fantasy-console, Pixel Art, Shoot 'Em Up, TIC-80
Code license	MIT License
Asset license	Creative Commons Attribution_ShareAlike v4.0 International
Average session	A few seconds
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller

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ticaruga_linux 2 MB

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Comments

David Thompson4 years ago(+1)

I've wanted to see a demake of this game for a long time. Nice job! This first stage is *much* harder than the original, though, and I know at least one reason why: Those circle "popcorn" enemies should die with one hit, but they take a lot more hits to kill here and thus the player has to dodge the remaining ones as they move down the screen.

Alex Stuart4 years ago

This is cool, nice work. It's way harder than the original, though! Why do you think that is?

adenator5 years ago(+1)

BLUE,RED,BLUE,RED,BLUE,RED,BLUE,RED,DEAD

The enemies still deal harm no matter what.

kostik13375 years ago(+1)

Cool game, rather hard for me, still I enjoyed playing it. Graphics and music are perfectly fit in the game. Additional kudos for providing comments in code =D

Escada Games5 years ago(+1)

Thanks kostik, glad that you liked! We also had a hard time while playtesting hahaha

My buddy Sklaiser did a great job on the graphics, but I thought the music ended up a bit rough, at least comparing to the original: so, it's great to hear that it fitted well! About the comments, by the end of the coding, I realized the code was really a big mess, so I had to leave some comments warning anyone that tried to read it hahaha once again, thanks :)

nathangrowler5 years ago(+1)

This is a great game. The sprites are great the music is awesome. The concept is pretty cool too. I've never been great at these types of games but I enjoyed playing it a lot.

Escada Games5 years ago

Thanks a lot for your comment, glad you liked it! We thought that the amount of bullets and enemies might scare some players away, but it's great to see that even if you aren't that great at playing shmups, you still enjoyed playing. Again, thanks!