Combo Galaxy

How to Play

Combo Galaxy is an arcade shoot-em-up game inspired by Space Invaders and Cherry Bomb. Destroy round after round of aliens in your path with your ship the Crimson Swift and try to get the highest score you can!

Controls

Keyboard

• Arrow Keys – Move your ship
• Z / N / C – Blast Lasers
• X / M / V – Deploy Star Bombs

Controller

• L Stick / D-pad – Move your ship
• A / Y – Blast Lasers
• X / B – Deploy Star Bombs

Star Bombs

Star Bombs are a collectible that defeated enemies will sometimes drop. Collecting it will increase your star bomb ammo count by 1 and the more ammo you have the more bombs you will deploy all at once!

Collecting 4 Star Bombs will restore 1HP but also reset your star bomb ammo count to 0. If you have full HP, collecting 4 Star Bombs will instead reset your star bomb ammo count to 0 and give you 2500 points, so consider saving your ammo to get a higher score if you feel you can beat the game without them.

Tip for getting high scores

Enemies that are moving towards your ship give double points, so be vigilant as to which enemies are about to move – you’ll see them twitching when they’re about to.

Credits

This game was written in the game engine Pico-8 by Niall Chandler, with help from Krystian Majewski aka Krystman's Shmup tutorial video series on YouTube.

The Custom LCD Screen Font used in game was made by Léo Bernard aka Yolwoocle.

Boss sprite modified from space eater sprite by Cluly.

Music by Gruber.