Taisei – shoot’em up game in the style of the Touhou Project

Taisei is a top down perspective shoot’em up game in the style of the Tōhō Project. It’s fast, furious, and good fun to play.

The Touhou Project is a series of Japanese bullet hell shooter video games developed by the single-person Team Shanghai Alice. The game is set in an isolated world full of Japanese folklore. Taisei is a very challenging game to play, particularly if you’ve never played bullet hell type games. Even the ‘easy’ mode is not easy.

In a shoot ’em up, the player character engages in a lone assault, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The bullet hell tag reflects the plethora of bullets that you must avoid.

Features include:

• 2 characters to play who have different shots:
  • Kirisame Marisa.
  • Konpaku Yōmu.
• 6 levels (stages) to tackle. Each stage has a boss and a mid boss:
  • Misty Lake.
  • Walk Along the Border.
  • Through the Tunnel of Light.
  • Forgotten Mansion.
  • Climbing the Tower of Babel.
  • Roof of the World.
• 4 skill levels:
  • Easy.
  • Normal.
  • Hard.
  • Lunatic.
• Collect items by killing enemies:
  • Blue – increases your score.
  • Red – boosts your power.
  • Green Star – Bomb. Appears either filled (full bomb) or as an empty outline (bomb fragment). 5 fragments get you a bomb.
  • Pink Star – Life or Life fragment.
• Focus fire – makes your weapon more focused at the expense of maneuverability. The mode helps to dodge bullets.
• Support for game controllers – uses SDL2’s unified GameController API.
• A special mode where you can practice the game’s levels.
• Fully portable replays.
• Uses complex math for projectile positioning.
• BGM support.

Website: taisei-project.org
Support: Game Manual, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Lukas Weber, Andrei Alexeyev
License: MIT License

Taisei is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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