“Type X29” is an exper­i­ment: a 1D bullet-hell shooter. Although ene­mies and bul­lets may move in two dimen­sions, your ship is con­fined to a sin­gle line, mean­ing that dodg­ing enemy fire becomes not just a mat­ter of quick reac­tions but of strate­gi­cally destroy­ing ene­mies in advance to give you enough space to move between their shots.

The game is very early in its devel­op­ment phase — I’ve lit­er­ally only spent a few hours on it over a cou­ple of days. None of the art­work, game­play etc. is final, and as yet there is no real goal other than sur­viv­ing as long as pos­si­ble. Even­tu­ally there will be lives, weapon upgrades, bosses and all the rest. But for now, see if you can beat my record of 114 seconds!

You can play Type X29 here. It requires the lat­est ver­sion of Java and a plu­gin for your browser.

Screen­shot

Type X29 Screenshot

Licence & Source Code

Type X29 is licenced under the GNU GPL v3. You can grab the source code from GitHub.