Joonas Vuorela
Programmer | Game maker | Music maker

Killing Force

Made with Unity.

I made Killing Force in about one month.
It's a 2D run and gun game heavily inspired by the Contra franchise.
My goal was to recreate 8-bit graphics art style with limited colors and era appropriate gameplay. The game can be played with a USB NES controller.

I made all the pixel art and sound.

I also made the soundtrack and others sounds with the limitations of the old hardware (more or less).
The soundtrack only utilizes two square waves, a triangle wave and a noise channel. The NES also had support for compressed audio samples that were often used for drums, so I used them as well.

Most of the sound effects were made using the noise channel

Key features
  • Custom made 2D character controller
  • Classic NES gameplay and aesthetic
  • Pixel art and a CRT tv filter
  • Banging music
Gameplay video [LINK]