Usagi Jumps to the Moon
Jam Theme: Moon
“Usagi Jumps to the Moon” is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell, where you play as a rabbit (Usagi), who is trying to jump to the moon.
This game was made for the Usagi Jam 2026 using the Usagi engine.
My Contributions
I did pair Programming to create the game, so we screenshared and worked through figuring out the engine and reverse engineering from example projects.
I did some of the pixel art
Outcomes
We got to work with a new engine, the Usagi Engine which uses Lua.
When it comes to working with the Usagi Engine, something that was very interesting was how you actually render images and sprites onto the screen. You essentially have to store the sprites location and update it every frame, it made me really appreciate what the average game engine does for us.