Arcane Core

Arcane Core is a fast-paced magical bullet hell where you summon orbs to break through corrupted blocks and shatter unstable crystal cores. Use spell cards, dodge corrupted entities, and manage mana to survive escalating chaos in an endless loop of destruction and power.

If you beat the levels it loops back around for new game+, but there is no difficulty scaling yet. Try to make it to level 4 to fight the boss. It's very incomplete, but I had a great time exploring the bullet hell genre!

Controls:

• Move Paddle - WASD / Arrow keys / Click to use mouse
• Mana bar is shown on the left, it auto regenerates and summons orbs

Tips

• You have 5 hit points carried over each level (if you lose 4 hp in level 1, you'll have only 1 hp for the rest of the game)
• All bricks and cores (boss enemy) must be cleared to go to the next level
• You can move up and down unlike normal brick breaking games, and I suggest clicking to use the mouse instead of keyboard unless you want a challenge.
• Picking up the card power ups is important for clearing levels faster
• There's no penalty for losing orbs/balls, you can focus on surviving
• Orbs destroy bullets, use that to your advantage
• It's possible to beat! Bullet hell regulars probably think it's too easy, but it's also beatable for newbies like me and my score was 180,000 at the end!

Jam

This is a jam game made in a day for Mini Jame Gam #42 and then continued for Bullet Hell Jam 6. It was made with both jams (plus a 3rd) in mind from the start and adhered to the rules of both. This is my 4th jam game and 4th attempt at making a game in general. If you're interested in seeing my history of jam games check them out here!

Themes:

• Mini Jame Gam:
  • Summoning theme
    • Summon orbs / magic
  • Card special object
    • Cards are playable powerups (currently just "mana surge" regen buff)
• Bullet Hell Jam:
  • "Unstable" theme
    • You're on a mission to stabilize arcane cores that have become unstable / corrupted for some reason. The timeline also seems unstable as events seem to repeat themselves... (endless looping / new game+ intended)

Asset Credits

• Kenney - Art (modified)/Fonts/UI Sounds
• Moxica - Colorful enemy sprites
• cafeDraw + SnoopethDuckDuck - Spell card
• Game makes use of AI for placeholder assets, these are modified by me (albeit super rushed in this one)