

Holly‘s Seeker uses homing bullets – they lack punch but are easy to use and backed up by a slow travelling but destructive Cannonball to smash through enemy lines. Her secondary weapon is the flamethrower, a short range, high damage weapon that burns through packs of enemies and puts big dents in boss health bars.

Fast, precise – and once it’s levelled up – able to tear apart pretty much anything. Where a shmup might have different ships, we have different androids and we had a lot of fun designing our eight characters and drawing on our favourite arcade influences to give them each their own feel and keep them fun to play.Ĭactus, our games namesake, sports the classic Vulcan-style machine gun. Hello! I’m Tim, the coder and art guy of Witch Beam, a three person team making Assault Android Cactus which is heading to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita later this year.Īssault Android Cactus is an intense arena shooter in the arcade tradition where each character has an unlimited primary weapon that powers up over the course of the level and a sub weapon that works on a cooldown.
