PS3

Everyday Shooter

ShooterMusicIndie

Space needed: About 37 MB
Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Everyday Shooter (also known as Riff: Everyday Shooter) is a multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Queasy Games for Windows.

Everyday Shooter is a dual-stick, multidirectional shooter. In the game's "Normal Play" mode, the player maneuvers a small dot through eight different levels. The gameplay dynamics (enemy types, chaining systems, etc.) change with each level, encouraging the player to observe their surroundings closely to best adapt to new rule sets.

Everyday Shooter was developed in the span of a few months by Jessica Mak using Visual C++. After her last project, Gate 88, which Mak called a "complicated mess of rules and controls", Mak desired to make a much simpler game. Initially the game started out as a puzzle game inspired by Mak's interest in Lumines and Every Extend Extra, however Mak had trouble with this route and decided instead to turn the game into a shooter. In addition to programming and graphic design, Mak recorded and implemented an all-guitar soundtrack to the game.

The PlayStation 3 and Windows versions received "favorable" reviews, while the PSP version received "average" reviews, as reported by the review aggregation website Metacritic.