‘Nifty’ is a simulation, containing as much algorithmically generated content as possible and as little static content as feasible. The entire population of the world, including the player character you control is procedurally generated and will never be the same over multiple runs. All the ‘AI constructs’ trapped in this perpetual simulation just want to survive. All except for you, you want to escape. To be able to flee from this world and make it into persistent memory where you can exist indefinitely in peace, you have to cause enough damage to the world around you as to slip through the cracks. But destroying one’s own world has consequences…

‘a NIFTY game’ is a fast paced twin stick shooter reminiscent of old arcade games reinterpreted with voxels. Gather powerups with unique effects and collect better weapons to defeat the ever changing enemies and collect their bits.
‘a NIFTY game’ takes place in a simulated world, inhabited by various programs, all competing for resources (bits). Defeat the other programs to gather their bits and increase your own strength. But take care, the system gets corrupted the more programs get forcefully terminated. Can you survive the evolving programs and the increasing corruption of the system long enough to escape the simulation?
‘a NIFTY game’ features many key elements from similar arcade games, with some added twists.

a nifty game Key Features:
1, Procedurally generated levels
2, Evolving enemies inspired by genetics
3, Combinable powerups
4, Multiple weapons
5, Shader effects inspired by glitches of old technologies (e.g. scanlines)