Hello everyone! This is the new project I’ve been working on, Gearbits: Gear angels!

The game is a 2D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, where you collect items to keep up your weapon power and shields. With no power, the weapons wont help you and the shield is useless. You need to avoid the enemy and collect energy to counterattack. At the highest level, your shield will block any attack and the weapons will pierce enemies!

Here’s the big feature, Gearbits integration! This game features interconnectivity with Gearbits. By transferring your save file, you can play as the Gear angels in Gearbits. All three angels share the same inbuilt weapon. Just like in their own game, they can collect powerups from defeated enemies to increase the rifle charge. An overcharged volley will wipe out a swarm of bugs in a flash.

So this is the thing I’ve been working on. It stared as a quick prototype, where I just wanted to make some effect animations and I’ve been expanding it since. The game will release for free on Steam and itch.io 26.2.2024. I’m hoping that it will bring some new people to Gearbits and entertain the current players.

You might have noticed, that I’ve been saying I’ll add new “characters” to Gearbits. Not “Units” or “GBs”. I was struggling to come up with a theme for my new space shooter. And then one day, I was showing Gearbits to someone and they said something along the lines of “Anime fans don’t care about robots any more, they only care about waifus.” And that’s when I decided to make it about mecha waifus. I’m hoping that this will snare some waifu fans and teach them to appreciate some proper robot anime. I also though that the current playerbase might like it, since Bubblegum crisis and Dirty pair are no doubt familiar to most mecha and retro anime appreciators. Due to prior confusion, I feel that I should clarify, I’m using the word “waifu” to refer to generic anime girls. Currently, I DO NOT have plans to develop a dating sim. Thank you for your interest, but that’s not in the cards at the moment. An expansion campaign for Gearbits is still first in line.

The game will release for free, but you can already wishlist it on Steam.

Let me know what you think. I read the community forums but if you'd like to join the discord, here's a link https://discord.gg/8DnYx2zB