CPU Takeover is a bullet-hell, top-down, twin-stick shooter where the player must destroy an evil virus, hacking the computer system.

To do this, they must attack it while surviving its attacks and the waves of enemies it spawns.

Luckily enemies drop powerups to aid the player. And due to a bug in the code, having near misses with bullets will freeze time and delay the spawning of more enemies.

This was made as part of the Bullet Hell Jam 2021 (https://itch.io/jam/bullet-jam-2021) where the theme was "10 seconds", hence that's why the boss switches attacks/spawns enemies every 10 seconds.

Controls:

Mouse and Keyboard: Use WASD to move and the mouse to aim, shoot with LMB and dash with RMB.

Controller (recommended): Use the left stick to move and the right one to aim and shoot. You can dash using L1/LB and R1/RB.

If the controller doesn't work, connect exclusively through USB instead of Bluetooth. Unity's Input System sometimes has problems with Bluetooth.

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Download

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CPU Takeover.zip 45 MB
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CPU Takeover (Original Jam Submission).zip 44 MB

Install instructions

Download the zip, extract it and open "CPU Takeover.exe".

Alternatively, just play it on the browser (though WebGL performs worse). The game is in the wrong resolution at first, but toggling the fullscreen in-game or on the WebGL frame at least once fixes it. We apologize for not being able to fix this issue.

We recommend playing the regular version, but we also have the original jam submission available for comparison's sake.

Development log

Comments

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It lags quite a bit. I'm rotating my mouse around but its not rotating along with it.

This has been fixed after we revisited the game for Game Development World Championships.