Taisei – A Classy, Frenetic Shoot’em Up Game in the Style of The Touhou Project

This is a top down perspective shoot’em up game in the style of the Touhou 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.

Here is a demo of the game.

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
• Make your very own Taisei reskin

This tutorial shows you how to compile the latest code release – it includes great background music which isn’t yet available in the binary release.

OS	Supported	Notes
		The next release of Taisei will feature background music but get a preview now - watch the above tutorial and build the latest version of the code. The game has been in development for more than 6 years. Homepage: taisei-project.org Developer: Andrei Alexeyev, Lukas Weber, Igor Molchanov, and other contributors License: MIT License Written in: C