Rick Henderson
A downloadable game
Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.
♾️Infinite replayability, with waves hand crafted with love 💖
😇😈 Standard and Hard mode for both casual and players that are up for a challenge
💀 Boss Raid mode
🧮 Tutorial
🚀 3 player ships, each with their own special ability to match your play style
🔫 27 weapons. Use Bullet, Energy or Missile weapons against Unarmored, Armored or Shielded enemies to different effects
💣 25 perks to upgrade your ship
👾 More than 40 enemies split into 5 factions
☠️ 5 bosses, each in three variations for total of 15 challenging baddies to challenge your skills + final big boss.
🎯 Fun scoring system for both casual and hardcore players: score multipliers, grazing, ranks and perk bonuses
🎮 Beautiful golden days of 16-bit games pixelart graphics
👓 One color mode for visually impaired
🔊 Blood pumping synthwave music
Development log
- Rick Henderson going to Early Access next week!Dec 17, 2020
- Rick Henderson final demo version - off to early access soonJun 03, 2020
- New demo version online (v0.25)Dec 22, 2019
- Rick Henderson Demo 0.2189 OnlineApr 20, 2019
- Rick Henderson Demo 0.2187 OnlineApr 02, 2019
- New update onlineMar 25, 2019
- IndieGoGo campaing starts NOW!Mar 18, 2019
- Demo released!Mar 15, 2019
Comments
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Just purchased your game on STEAM, absolutely love it and yes of course i will write a positive review...Highly recommended Buy this game and Awesome work guys :)
SHOOT EM UPS 4 LIFE!!!
Thanks man, i will probably put it up for sale on Itch too. Enjoy the game, some more stuff coming soon in the updates.
Found you via Twitter. This game looks excellent can't wait to try it.
Thanks, check out the demo
LOVE the art!!! that pixel art looks amazing, congrats for you big efforts doing a very nice shootem up.
Thanks man, still a lot to do tho
oh wow i was tryign to find a game like r-type and i found one!
good job and keep pumping out updates and maybe even try put on the switch! (or console)
also how did you make the sprites they are really nice, were they in asesprite?
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I'm on a bit of a hiatus, but i'll be back to the development soon. Switch is planned, it's the perfect platform for this type of game.
Sprites are made by the artist in Aseprite, yes.
are we going to see this on other platforms like the switch? it would be great and popular I'm sure being the new niche market for shmups and alike,thx
Hi,
If the game goes well on pc, yes, i plan on porting it to switch and consoles.
I played this game for my indie game showcase last night. I had a lot of fun with this game. My only thing was toggling the flashing lights and screen shake everytime i restarted a gameplay, other than that it was a great game.
For those who want to see gameplay of it.
Hi and thanks for playing, i'll check out the video as soon as possible! I just pushed a new update which fixes a lot of bugs, you may check it out.
Hello! Really fun game to play, was supposed to play for 5 mins and I ended up playing for a whole hour! Keep it up!
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Hello,
thanks for letting me know, i'll check it out!
Good luck then!