Glyphstorm

A twin-stick arena shooter drawn entirely in text glyphs, bosses included.

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The Gear, a boss built from 485 glyphs, turns among rings of orbiting mines.

Glyphstorm film, no sound0:49

Status
Shipped
Type
Game, free in the browser
Arenas
17
Controls
Keyboard, gamepad or touch

Everything on screen is made of text glyphs, and that includes the bosses. Enemies break apart into matter, and the matter upgrades your gun.

There are 17 arenas, and each one bends the floor: a torus that wraps around, a Möbius strip that flips you over, a curved planetoid, a tornado, a tilting table and sloped floors that push you around. Each arena has its own theme in an original synthwave soundtrack.

A daily challenge and leaderboards bring you back. It plays with a keyboard, a gamepad or touch.

The Shard, an arena of still ridges running corner to corner.
Ouroboros, a boss of glyphs that eats its own tail, explodes into BOOM.
The Cursor, a boss that types its army onto the screen.

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