DICE SECTOR

a PICO-8 Shmup developed with passion

Controls

Press "X" or "❎" on your controller to fire weapons

Press "C" or "🅾️" on your controller to change weapons

Use keyboard's arrow keys or controller pad to move your ship

Attention!

special weapons have a heat effect and in order to keep using them you need to wait or to grab a cool-down pick up

Rules

Defeat all enemies

Have fun (:

If you destroy an enemy while is attacking then you get more points

Something about the game

This is the second game I've ever developed and I had a lot of fun doing it.

It’s a small PICO-8 game, but I put a lot of care and time in it.

I tried to make a full game with a start and an end, and I really hope you will take your time to finish it.

Will you beat the last BOSS?

Hope you'll enjoy playing a few runs.

Feedback and comments are very welcome.

The game is completely free to play and download, but if you want to buy me a coffe, feel free :).

Thanks!

Credits

A Primal Shape game made by Andrea Giro

Big thanks to Krystian Majewski for his great PICO-8 tutorials hosted on his Lazy Devs Academy video channel

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Author	Primal Shape
Genre	Shooter, Action
Made with	PICO-8
Tags	Arcade, Indie, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Sci-fi, Shoot 'Em Up, Short, Singleplayer
Content	No generative AI was used

Download

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dicesector_v010_windows.zip 1,011 kB

dicesector_v010_osx.zip 7.4 MB

dicesector_v010_linux.zip 779 kB

dicesector_v010_raspi.zip 2.2 MB

Comments

Ace Frahm52 days ago

It's really bad that my weapon keeps changing to bad ones I hate for no reason.

Primal Shape51 days ago

Hey Ace_Frahm, thanks for your comment. I do understand the frustration of the weapon change because it gets overheated. To keep shooting with the same weapon you need to cool it down, this means getting the little diamonds power-ups. This way I normally can almost finish one wave with the same weapon. Hope this will change your opinion.

And also try to keep a finger on the "change weapon" button or C if you play from the keyboard, this way you can rotate weapons easily when needed.

thanks anyway for taking the time to play my game.

Aycorn53 days ago

This is awesome! Love the level of polish you were able to add here, small things like the space background moving faster between scene transitions! I loved the feeling of the triple barrel weapon 😆

I had a blast playing, well done!

Primal Shape52 days ago

Hey Aycorn, thanks a lot for your nice comment. I tried to polish as much as PICO-8 allowed me, there might be more room in the future when I'll learn to optimize my code :) thanks!