Shmups

Shmups

2D shooters in the vein of Space Invaders. Short for Shoot 'em Up.

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Resuming the game once all of the player's lives have been lost.

A loop refers to a single playthrough of a shmup to the end of the game. Once a single loop has been completed, many games will start the player on a second, harder, loop through the stages again. ...

Jerk

Video games; Shmups

A technique that utilises herding to cut through a very dense stream of aimed bullets. If a player jerks to one side and back again very quickly, the aimed bullets will briefly be put on a different ...

Invincibility window

Video games; Shmups

A small timeframe in which the player is invincible. This often occurs shortly after a player death and ensures that the player doesn't repeatedly die after only having control of their ship for a ...

Lead

Video games; Shmups

When a player fires at where the enemy will be in the future rather than where they are at now, with the presumption that the enemy will move into the stream of bullets.