Skyfennel: Vertical Shmup

A vertical shoot-'em-up: a fennel seed pod blasts through three stages of insect swarms and three multi-phase bosses, with power-ups, bombs and a pollen score multiplier. Free, no ads, no tracking; keyboard or touch.

Skyfennel is a vertical shoot-'em-up where your ship is a fennel seed pod drifting over farmland. It fires on its own, so all your attention goes to flying: threading through bullet patterns, grabbing power-ups and collecting the pollen that downed insects leave behind.

Three stages, each a minute of authored waves followed by a boss with three phases. Beat the Gale Moth at the end of stage 3 to win.

• Authored waves: gnats on curved bezier paths, beetle formations, sine-weaving moths, diving wasps and slow thistle pods that fire rotating rings
• Three bosses: the Thistle Crow, the Hornet Queen (she summons wasps and charges) and the Gale Moth, whose wind pushes you sideways
• Power-ups: spread shot up to level 3, homing seeds up to level 2, a one-hit shield and extra bombs
• Pollen multiplier: downed insects shed pollen that drifts to you and raises the score multiplier up to x5; a hit halves it
• Bombs: 3 bombs clear every bullet on screen and turn them into pollen
• Small hitbox: hold Shift to fly slowly and see the exact hit point
• Touch friendly: drag anywhere to steer relative to your finger, two-finger tap to bomb

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Arrow keys / WASD: fly (the pod fires on its own)
• Shift: slow, precise flight with the hitbox shown
• X: bomb
• Touch: drag anywhere to steer relative to your finger
• Two-finger tap or the round BOMB button: bomb
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.