Catalyst (itch) (knexator)

WASD or Arrow Keys to move, Mouse to aim & shoot, M to mute.

Push one enemy into another to combine them.

Learn the recipes & Follow your instinct.

Made for the Thinky Games are for Everyone jam, in which the goal was to reach an audience not already into thinky games. What's my strategy? Trickery, of course! My core idea was to disguise a thinky game as a shmup to trick people into playing (and having fun, hopefully). The plan was for the action part to be more ambitious, a shmup standing on its own, but that got too overwhelming when combined with learning the thinky part. Still, I hope you have fun playing my shmup interpretation of Null Hypothesis!

Here are the full rules. For A, B in {Cyan, Magenta, Yellow}:
A + B <=> AB + Spike
A + AA <=> BC + Inverter
A + BC <=> AA + Inverter

Made using sounds by Ogrebane, music from Guitare Improvisation, textures from Poly Haven, and the Shaku framework.