BroodStar

BroodStar

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Music:	LeissMusic, SFX: umellu
Program:	Razeal
Art:	Mnots
Release date:	Early Access on 2020 October 1st

BroodStar

BroodStar is an arcade roguelite shmup with stages that have randomly generated aspects. These aspects include: standard enemies, midbosses, bosses, events, upgrades and which stages appear during a run.

Gameplay Overview

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Controls

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Button Names listed are Xbox controller specific, but the game supports Keyboard, Mouse and other controllers as well.

• A: Fires your Main Weapon and SubWeapon if you have one.
• X: Causes your Ship to dodge in the direction you're currently holding. Your Ship is invincible during the dodge.
• Y: Uses your Active Item Module if you have one.
• RB: Focus

These inputs can be remapped to any key.

Characters / Ships / Styles

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There is only a single Ship type in BroodStar but its properties and the style of gameplay can vary greatly between runs, due to the game's item system.

Weapons

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• Standard: The starting weapon type with no special properties.
• EMP: Replaces the Standard weapon with a blue projectile shooting one. Its projectile also causes extra damage in a small aoe.
• Lazer: Replaces the Standard weapon with a screen length lazer shooting one.
• Plasma: Replaces the Standard weapon with a green projectile shooting one. This weapon has greatly increased damage but lower firerate. Its projectiles also move in a vertical sine wave pattern.
• Arc: Replaces the Standard weapon with a purple projectile shooting one. Its projectile doesn't have any special properties, but it has a large hitbox.
• Flamethrower: Replaces the Standard weapon with a flame projectile shooting one. This weapon uses Fuel as ammo and cannot fire without the sufficient ammount. Its projectile pierces enemies and applies a Burning debuff on them.
• Sword: Replaces the Standard weapon with a special short range Sword. The sword appears out of the Ship's thrusters when firing and causes the Ship to spin around.

SubWeapons

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• Missile: Description
• Homing Missile: Description
• Bomb: Description
• Mine: Description
• EMP Bomb: Description
• Shield: Description

Items

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Rank

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There is currently no ranking system in the game.

Scoring

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Story

A mining outpost was suddenly attacked on a remote planet by unknown creatures. A single fighter is dispatched to investigate and report on what happened.

Development History

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Version Differences

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Trivia

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References & Contributors

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