1K ARENA

1K ARENA is a basic "Survivors-like" top-down shoot 'em up created for the PICO-1K Jam 2023. It uses 1024 1023 compressed bytes of code for graphics, sound and game logic.

Features include:

• Animated player, enemies and background
• Multiple weapons with different behaviors
• XP/level-up system
• Persistent splatter effect!
• Sound

Instructions
The goal is simple: Survive as long as possible! You control the player using the arrow keys/directional buttons. When you die, press the X key/button to retry.

The top bar is your HP. The bottom bar is your level progression. Pick up experience () from defeated enemies to level-up and gain additional weapons.

There are three weapons in the game:

• Pink (starting weapon): Spread-pattern shot
• Lavender: Multi-directional shot
• Blue: Homing shot

Special Thanks
Special thanks to the following members of the PICO-8 Discord:

• Heracleum
• Mathieu 'p01' Henri
• luchak
• pancelor

Links

• Commented source code