BOMBERFROG: ALPHA
YOUR BOMB IS YOUR LIFE!

Bomberfrog: Alpha is a horizontal wave-based shmup. Your goal is to 1) survive 2) beat the level as quickly as possible. Use bombs to help you increase your damage. But be careful because your bomb is your extra life.

Bomberfrog: Alpha currently contains one level, aiming for about 2 minutes of gameplay. At about the intended middle difficulty of the final game. It was made in 10 days. This alpha version is my submission for Bullet Hell Jam 7, which had the theme of shrink!

Enemies shrink as they take damage, meaning you need to increase your precision to deal maximum damage. They drop chips when they die. Collect the chips to fill your bomb meter. Chips inside the yellow circle will pull toward your ship. When you aren't firing, the chip pull circle is larger.

Bomberfrog will bomb again!

Controls

Input mapping is available for keyboards in the Pause menu (Esc, P, or Enter).

ActionKeyboardGamepad
MoveArrow KeysD-pad
Shoot - SpreadZA, LB
Shoot - FocusXB, RB
BombCX, Y
Pause menuEsc, P, EnterStart
Toggle AudioShift + M
Toggle FPS`

Credits

Bomberfrog is made by Brett Chalupa. Music by Chromatic Arcana.

Tracks used:

Made with Usagi Engine.

View the source code: https://github.com/brettchalupa/bomberfrog

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Here’s my fastest clear: 2:18.55

bomberfrog alpha win screen

There’s definitely room for improvement from me, with more aggressive bombing and chip management. Curious what everyone’s fastest clear time is!