This is a simple version of Space Invaders in a single tweet. The invaders speed up as you shoot more of them, and taking out the last few is pretty tricky. When you finish one wave, the next will start slightly farther down the screen, see how many you can get through!

Controls:

L/R-----Move Cannon

Z/X-----Fire

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorJadeLombax
Made withPICO-8

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this is an amazing achievement!!! You absolutely nailed the movement of the invaders and their speed up. So cool

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Thanks. =)

I'm not sure how the original game handled the speeding up, but I just divided a fixed maximum speed by the number of invaders, so technically when just one is left, it's going 45 times as fast as it is when you start o_O.

Very cool for a single tweet! The enemies look pretty faithful. Enemies going all the way across the screen and speeding up are great. That last enemy was pretty tough to hit!

Thanks.=)

I was working on a full-fledged version of Space Invaders with enemy fire and destructible barriers meant to fit in two Tweets, but didn't manage to fit it in the character limit by the deadline. It's currently about 100 characters over the limit, but hopefully sometime I can figure out how to shrink it the rest of the way.

Good luck!