ZOE Begone!

Hand-drawn bullet-hell! 

A frenetic shooter combining the run-and-gun mechanics of Metal Slug with the infinite loops and shmup-ing of Resogun, wrapped up with old-fashioned drawn-on-film style animation. Fight your own creator as the artist bears down on you with pen and paintbrush!

All Zoe wants is some peace and quiet, but she's gonna have to deal with the pesky animator who keeps painting enemies and being generally annoying before she'll be able to get some rest.

Destroy the animator's tools, blast their creations to bits, collect Apples to spend on Power Ups, rack up your multiplier, and reclaim your serene surroundings to help Zoe get back to normality as fast as you can (and bag yourself a high score in the process)!

Gameplay

- Fly and dash, if you have enough Energy, to get to the next enemy and keep your chain going!...
- or run on the ground if you don't.
- Refill your Energy or Health and reclaim your territory by pounding the ink dots!
- Use your Dash charge to escape tricky situations or quickly take out stronger enemies...

Power Ups

Collect the Apples dropped by enemies to spend in the power up shops that appear throughout each level!

- Level Up your base gun
- Homing Shot (consumes Energy)
- Spread Shot (consumes Energy)
- Heavy Shot (consumes Energy)
- Speed Up
- Shield
- Apple Gravity+
- Points
+ More coming soon!

Scoring

Compete for the high score on the online leaderboards!

- Build up your chain multiplier by taking out enemies in quick succession
- Reclaim as much territory as you can for a percentage based end of level bonus
- Take out the boss as quickly as you can for an end of level time bonus

Features

- 1 Player blasting action!
- Awesome power ups!
- Online Leaderboards!
- Enemy chain scoring system
- Lovely drawn on film art style!
- Awesome Boogie soundtrack!
- Tutorial
- Looping arena
- Gamepad / Keyboard support

ZOE is a work in progress and feedback is really helpful to us - please leave a comment or check out our Discord to let us know your thoughts.

Updates

ZOE WiP Demo 0.14.1 Additions
- New power ups!
- The Power up Shop
- Dash and Pound charge mechanics
- Apples!
- Bananas!
- New music
- Loads of tiny things you probably won't notice but make everything feel nicer!

ZOE WiP Demo 0.13.2 Additions
- Mac version
- Online leaderboard
- Refined / additional sound design
- New music
- Minor bug fixes

ZOE WiP Demo 0.13.1 Additions
- New tutorial

ZOE WiP Demo 0.13.0 Additions
- Power up mechanics
- New wave / formation design
- Improved tutorial / guide
- Time based score bonus
- Enemy design tweaks
- Player speed tweaks
- Player damage emphasised
- More sound (mostly placeholder)