Shoot, collect, sell, upgrade, repeat! 

Biblically Accurate Space Shooter is an endless space shooter where your objective is getting a high score while having several limitations and difficulties you'd probably experience in real life (hence the name), yet keeping the feel of an arcade game.

BASS has some nontraditional features that give it an "old-school" feel:

• Looks:  BASS is fully built upon 2 colors: green and black. The graphics are incredibly simple, the biggest sprite taking up a mere 5kB (not counting logo).  The game has an aspect ratio of 4:3 imitating older monitors.
• Sound: All sound is in possibly the simplest form- either short cycle or triangle waves.
• Controls: The game is fully played with the keyboard, eliminating the need for a mouse.

Gameplay:

Your main source of income is selling scraps gathered from shooting asteroids. You can use your earnings to buy a variety of upgrades for your ship or essentials so you don't end up stranded in the cold vacuum.

"When games were new, they wanted a lot from you. Daunting you, taunting you, resetting and delaying you..."

You have a set of stats you need to pay attention to, each of which depleting can cause a LOT of trouble- running out of fuel will make you unable to move forward; running out of bullets will make you unable to shoot; running out of electricity will make you unable to rotate; running out of health will make you (obviously) explode. All of these will add additional challenge forcing you to manage your money.

If you save up enough money you can also spend them on upgrades that can make your overall session less difficult.

 

Controls are stated here in the menu and in the tutorial. You can navigate through menus using the arrow keys.

BASS UPDATE 1.1.0

Gameplay:

New features:

• Added a tutorial which will begin the first time you press play, upon finishing it, it wont show up again
• Added a not-so-great pseudo-boundless world
• Added a sound for a denied purchase

Changes:

• The shop was overhauled, instead of pressing the individual keys you choose them with arrow keys and select them with enter
• Asteroids now spawn relative to the player, they can be encountered much more often now
• Pressing mouse buttons will no longer entirely break the UI
• Self-destruction is now triggered after holding the escape button for 3 seconds, instead of immediately
• fixed the bug where spamming the W key completely drains your fuel
• made the rotation of the ship more realistic (it retains its angular velocity and is now affected by inertia dampeners)
• opening one tab now closes the other
• fixed the sound of thrusters playing without fuel

Performance:

• Greatly optimized all code, making them not look like they were made by YandereDev
• Some sprites were removed

Graphics:

• Added a few post processing effects to increase the overall looks (bloom, vignette, better VCR effect, lens distortion)
• Changed the font
• Changed the sprites of the planets and the spaceship a bit so they look more appealing
• Added the text writing effect in the controls and credits page
• Polished out the in-game GUI
• The game over screen now opens only after you explode