A downloadable game for Windows

Balance your mobility and your bombs!

Lattice Rider NEPHILA is a polygonal 2D shooting game made for Bullet Hell Jam 2023, featuring crisp polygonal graphics, a unique lattice bomb system, and medal juggling scoring.

Controls

  • FIRE: Z/J/left face button.
  • BOMB: X/K/top face button. This will shrink your movement lattice, and you can only do this if no two corners of the lattice are too close to one another.
  • ROTATE SCREEN: Tab/Back/Select (both tate orientations and standard yoko supported).

Development

All assets are original and made for the jam except the following:

  • Ocean floor texture (made by me for a prior project)
  • Music and sound effects by Dracue (the legends!!!), from their "2D SciFi Shooter" Unreal Marketplace pack (which I still cannot believe existed). Unfortunately this is no longer available, presumably due to Dracue's closure.
  • Bitmap text sourced from Foone Turing's Death Generator, specifically from the following:
    • Bakutoushi Patton-kun by Soft Pro
    • DoDonPachi by Cave
    • Pac-Man Arrangement by Namco

Thanks to everyone who tuned into me streaming almost the entire development time of this, and a special thanks to cmart7 for some good early formative ideas about the vehicle and lattice.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Authortain
GenreAction, Shooter
TagsArcade, Bullet Hell, Low-poly

Download

Download
Lattice Rider NEPHILA (Bullet Hell Jam 2023 Version) 134 MB
Download
Unreal Prerequisite Installer (just in case) 47 MB

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I won!! Cool idea and great presentation, thanks for sharing this!
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Hello!

We tried this game on twitch a few days ago. The bomb system was very fun, and the poligonal graphics were highly praised as they were found to be original and nice!