Shoot Back
Side-scrolling shooter with a unique time reversal mechanic: Death causes time to reset so you can play through the level again with your past self.
Instructions
- Arrows to move
- Space to shoot
- Hit an enemy and time resets
Goals for future development
Unique endless sidescrolling shooter for 2 players.
Idea
Premise
- Player 1 must escort a "valuable" ship through space.
- The ship grants an ability to be teleported back in time instead of dying.
- The enemy (Player 2) is carrying nukes. If they touch the "valuable" ship, it's game over for P1.
- P2's bullets aren't strong enough to hur the "valuable" ship, but can kill P1.
- The teleport ability is restricted - there are only so many "lives" it can grant.
Game Play
Player 1
- P1 starts the game as a regular side-scrolling shooter
- When shot, the player is teleported back to the start of the game (in time & space)
- And everything is vertically reversed (flipped)
- The original play through (P1a) is now played back on auto
- While the player plays as a clone of the first (P1b)
- So now there are two versions of the player (P1a & P1b) killing enemies
- If P1a is not killed by the original enemy which killed it, it becomes AI controlled
- Once P1a dies, it is NOT teleported back. Instead, its play through is recorded for the next time P1b is teleported back (as P1c now).
- If P1 uses up all their "lives", the game will continue to play as the AI until all the clones are killed, or they reach the end of the level
- Once the level is over, it's P2's go.
Player 2
- Now player 2 plays the game, but from their perspective from the point where P1 died / finished the level.
- P1 appears to be moving in reverse (as if P2 is pushing them back)
- P2 has the same teleport ability as P1,
- When P2 is teleported back, the same thing happens as with P1.
- The number lives P2 has is the number of kills P1 made +1Describe the game?
- At each point where P1 died, a new P1 is spawned by flying out of the "valuable" ship
- The P1's are AI controlled
Implementation
Phase 1
The side-scrolling shooter
Phase 2
Reset after dying
Phase 3
2 player / reverse