Spheres of Chaos

Spheres of Chaos is a space shooting game with psychedelic graphics and particle effects. The game is a mix of Asteroids gameplay with Robotron visuals.

The player controls a ship that can turn and thrust with basic inertia physics. Shoot enemies to break them up into smaller enemies, shoot the smallest enemies to clear the screen, and move to the next level. The player and enemies can warp around all the edges of the screen, for example, if the player exits to the right side of the screen he will emerge again from the left side.

Enemies come in several geometric shapes, there are spheres that break into smaller spheres, spiked spheres and combined triangle enemies that break up into smaller rockets or space ships, attractors that attract and trap enemies, spinners, reflectors, bugs, and black holes. Sometimes spinning triangle power-ups appear, shoot to make it change color and grab it to get a shield or other power-ups.

The game features lots of colorful graphics, even down to the in-game menus. Uses pixels particle effects to create firework explosions, ripple effects, and rocket trails. There is an option to turn off the clear screen, disabling the clearing of the screen between frames, causing the player, enemies, and particle to smear the screen with pixels. Often there are lots of enemies on screen combined with the make for frantic and chaotic gameplay.