Bit Blaster XL

Nickervision Studios Developer

Nickervision Studios Publisher

2016-01-22 Release

Action Indie Casual SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 47

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Overwhelmingly Positive (5485 reviews)

http://www.adamvisionstudios.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Bit Blaster XL Linux Depot [188.43 M]

Available DLCs:

Bit Blaster XL Soundtrack

V3.10

Bit Blaster XL - V3.10

Added Music and Audio Sliders to the menus for keyboard, gamepad and mouse. (rewrote a number of things to allow for this to work instead of toggles. So please let me know if you find any issues) After this patch they will start at volume defaults Music 7, SFX 10.
Added the ability to customize the controls in the options menu. These controls will stick in between plays and can be reverted to default controls in the same menu. This is not a perfect implementation but it should suffice for most players that needed it. These controls will not modify the menu navigation buttons.
NEW Enemy07 - This enemy is a Blackhole, there is a small advance indicator where the black hole will spawn. Then once spawned, the black hole will continue to grow until it explodes. It can be shot five times to destroy. The Blackhole will suck in everything it comes into contact with and will destroy the player on contact. The Blackhole can appear later in the game and will appear with more frequency the higher your score becomes.
Controls will now be shown to all players a couple times each new version there are changes. Previously controls only showed for the first three starts and a couple times after changing autofire to manual fire, leading some players to be confused when I added the new Bomb and it wasn’t showing for them. (whoops)
Controls should now also be shown for when players have Customized their controls.
Fixed Bug where when you toggle the vibrate button really fast sometimes it stays on forever and ever and EVER AND EVER!!!! (no more!)
Modified the pause menu powerups legend slightly and added +Ammo
Modified Enemy05 Shoot patterns, slightly decreasing the amount of bullets on the first stop and increasing firepower with each stop.
Fixed Bug where you could still activate bomb during pause screen (or while alt-tabbing, sorry)

Thank you everyone for playing and sharing the game with your friends and family. Bit Blaster now has over 250,000 players, which just boggles my mind. Thanks so much for the support. If you are really enjoying Bit Blaster, make sure to leave a brief Steam Review and let others know to check it out. -Adam Nickerson

[ 2017-02-28 00:55:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

V3.10

Bit Blaster XL - V3.10

Added Music and Audio Sliders to the menus for keyboard, gamepad and mouse. (rewrote a number of things to allow for this to work instead of toggles. So please let me know if you find any issues) After this patch they will start at volume defaults Music 7, SFX 10.
Added the ability to customize the controls in the options menu. These controls will stick in between plays and can be reverted to default controls in the same menu. This is not a perfect implementation but it should suffice for most players that needed it. These controls will not modify the menu navigation buttons.
NEW Enemy07 - This enemy is a Blackhole, there is a small advance indicator where the black hole will spawn. Then once spawned, the black hole will continue to grow until it explodes. It can be shot five times to destroy. The Blackhole will suck in everything it comes into contact with and will destroy the player on contact. The Blackhole can appear later in the game and will appear with more frequency the higher your score becomes.
Controls will now be shown to all players a couple times each new version there are changes. Previously controls only showed for the first three starts and a couple times after changing autofire to manual fire, leading some players to be confused when I added the new Bomb and it wasn’t showing for them. (whoops)
Controls should now also be shown for when players have Customized their controls.
Fixed Bug where when you toggle the vibrate button really fast sometimes it stays on forever and ever and EVER AND EVER!!!! (no more!)
Modified the pause menu powerups legend slightly and added +Ammo
Modified Enemy05 Shoot patterns, slightly decreasing the amount of bullets on the first stop and increasing firepower with each stop.
Fixed Bug where you could still activate bomb during pause screen (or while alt-tabbing, sorry)

[ 2017-02-28 00:55:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

A throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Bit Blaster XL is a retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up! (shmup).

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● Easy to learn, simple arcade style Controls to turn your ship and boost (can also use a gamepad) (not a twin stick shooter)
● A variety of wicked Power ups like Split Shot, Heat seekers, Lasers, and Blast Shot to assist your survival.
● Several unlockable ships to pilot with unique attributes to give you an edge in the Leaderboards
● Endless survival (infinite) score chasing game play with a classic arcade style
● Steam achievements, leaderboards & Trading cards! (with emoticons & profile wallpapers)
● Cool retro pixel Graphics.
● Gameplay inspired by Luftrausers, Asteroids, Space Invaders and Geometry Wars (some of my favorites)
● Unique chiptune songs for each ship.
● Manual Fire mode for those that want a different experience.

Description of Gameplay:
Your ship can not stop moving; so turn it left and right and use your boost to keep from running into an ever increasing amount of enemies.
Your ship is always shooting, so make sure to pick up more ammo and the variety of awesome power ups to help you survive longer.
Get the highest score you can while collecting coins to buy more ships that are faster, shoot faster, or have more shields.
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Do not hesitate to contact me if there are any problems with the game.
Bit Blaster is also available free & ad supported on iOS and Android.
Thanks for playing, I hope you have some fun with it :)
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Audio was provided by my mouth and some royalty free SFX from FreeSFX
The music in the game is by the artist "Spiff Tune"

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Most 32-bit and 64-bit Linux OS
Processor: Dual CoreMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 512MB +at least and nothing over... let's say. five years old
Storage: 300 MB available space

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