Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype (stylized as Bullet Heaven 3 [Prototype]) is a bullet hell flash game in the Epic Battle Fantasy series. It's a free demo of Bullet Heaven 3, the sequel to Bullet Heaven 2 that will someday be released to Steam.
Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype is powered by Ruffle and can be played on Newgrounds or the developer's website as long as you have Ruffle installed on your computer, or you can download it from Itch.io.
Controls[]
Mouse-Only Controls[]
- Mouse: Move around, aim projectiles, click and hold to shoot faster
Keyboard-Only Controls[]
- WASD + Shift: Move around
- Arrow Keys: Shoot
Hybrid Controls 1[]
- Mouse: Move around
- WASD/Keyboard: Shoot
Hybrid Controls 2[]
- WASD/Keyboard + Shift: Move around
- Mouse: Shoot
Gameplay[]
Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype is a top-down shooter game much like the first two Bullet Heaven games, but the gameplay is significantly different. Instead of flying forward while waves of enemies come at you, you're placed on a still screen where enemies will spawn in and engage in various attack behaviors as they try to damage you. Thus, you can fire projectiles in multiple directions to hit the enemies; depending on which control scheme you choose, projectiles are fired either in the four directions of the WASD/arrow keys or in the direction opposite of where you move your mouse. With mouse-only controls, projectiles are fired automatically, but with the other control schemes you fire projectiles manually.
Each level contains several waves of enemies, and you have to kill all the enemies in a wave to move on to the next one. Once every few waves, a heart will appear for you to collect in case you lost any health. Once all waves have been cleared, you win the level and are given a rank based on how many times you got hit by enemy attacks. Otherwise, if you take too many hits and run out of health, you lose the level. In between levels, you can use the money collected from defeated enemies to buy upgrades in order to become stronger.
Upgrades[]
- Shot Damage: Increases the amount of damage your projectiles do to enemies.
- Rate of Fire: Increases the rate at which you shoot projectiles.
- Max Health: Increases your max HP.
- Movement Speed: Makes you move faster.
- Health Drops: Makes health pick-ups spawn more often.
- Power-Up Drops: Makes Sword and Shield power-ups drop from defeated enemies more often. (Swords temporarily triple your attack power, Shields give you a temporary force field that deflects all bullets. Both make you immune to enemy projectiles until they wear off.)
- Item Magnet: Lets you draw in money and power-ups from further away.
- Money Multiplier: Makes money pick-ups worth more when you collect them.
Levels[]
- Level 1: Evergreen Gardens
- Level 2: Gloomy Undergrowth
- Level 3: Bramble Blast
- Level 4: Cherry Blossoms
- Level 5: Fungus Chungus
- Level 6: Darkest Druids
- Level 7: Bossy Bushes
- Level 8: Flutter of Wings
- Level 9: Buttery Bullets
- Level 10: Shredding Thorns
- Level 11: Lightning Strikes
- Level 12: Sparks and Flames
- Level 13: Ancient Eyeballs
- Level 14: Autumn Breeze
- Level 15: Bubble Trouble
- Level 16: Arctic Shrubs
- Level 17: The Eastern Winds
- Level 18: Fire and Ice
- Level 19: Shroomsplosion
- Level 20: Ultimate Showdown
Medals[]
- Baby Steps: Buy an upgrade.
- Getting Buff: Max out an upgrade.
- Totally Shredded: Max out all upgrades.
- Blaster Master: Collect two Swords at the same time for a massive damage boost.
- Bouncer: Deflect 30 bullets with one Shield.
- Unperishable: Beat any level after Level 10 without taking any damage.
- Making It Rain: Collect a total of $2,000 or more in a single level.
- Bushwhacker: Kill 1,000 enemies.
- Whodunnit?: Check out the game's credits page.
- Warmed Up: Beat the first 10 levels.
- Prototype Complete: Beat all 20 levels.
- Hard Mode Complete: Beat all 20 levels on Hard Mode.
- Softcore: Get an A rank or better on all 20 levels.
- Hardcore: Get an A rank or better on all 20 levels on Hard Mode.
- Going Big: Get a total score of 300,000 or more.
- Going Bigger: Get a total score of 1,000,000 or more on Hard Mode.
Enemies[]
Bushes[]
- Green Bush: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots a tight volley of three razor leaves at you. First appears in Level 1.
- Pink Bush: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots tiny flower buds that fly out in three directions. First appears in Level 1.
- Red Bush: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots three razor leaves in quick succession at you. First appears in Level 14.
- White Bush: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots a string of four razor leaves at you. First appears in Level 15.
Big Bushes[]
- Big Green Bush: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots pairs of razor leaves in various directions. Splits into four Green Bushes when killed. First appears in Level 7.
- Big Pink Bush: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots large lines of flower buds in three directions. Splits into four Pink Bushes when killed. First appears in Level 4.
- Big Red Bush: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots tight volleys of five razor leaves in a clockwise pattern. Splits into four Red Bushes when killed. First appears in Level 14.
- Big White Bush: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots strings of four razor leaves in a clockwise pattern. Splits into four White Bushes when killed. First appears in Level 16.
Moths[]
- Pink Moth: Flutters around a small area and sometimes shoots a scattered volley of four heart bullets at you. First appears in Level 1.
- Black Moth: Flutters around a small area and sometimes shoots a volley of three magic bolts at you. First appears in Level 2.
- Purple Moth: Flutters around a small area and sometimes shoots a magic bolt that homes in on you. First appears in Level 8.
- Yellow Moth: Flutters around a small area and sometimes shoots a big spray of lasers at you. First appears in Level 9.
Mushrooms[]
- Brown Mushroom: Stays in one spot and constantly sprays a two-way spiral of spores at mid range. First appears in Level 2.
- Red Mushroom: Slowly wanders around the screen, leaving a trail of spores in its wake. First appears in Level 5.
- Yellow Mushroom: Moves around in a small circle, leaving a trail of spores in its wake. First appears in Level 11.
Brambles[]
- Thorny Bramble: Slowly chases after you, and releases four groups of thorns on the diagonals when killed. First appears in Level 3.
- Razor Bramble: Chases after you at moderate speed, and releases four groups of thorns on the horizontals and verticals when killed. First appears in Level 10.
- Ghastly Bramble: Behaves similarly to a Red Mushroom, but moves faster and leaves behind a shorter trail of bullets. First appears in Level 10.
- Ice Bramble: Wanders around the screen in short bursts of movement, and shoots icicles in eight directions when killed. First appears in Level 16.
Bombs[]
- Spore Bomb: Very slowly chases after you, and unleashes a huge ring of spores that travel a moderate distance when killed. First appears in Level 5.
- Thorn Bomb: Very slowly chases after you, and unleashes a huge ring of thorns that travel all the way to the edges of the screen when killed. First appears in Level 7.
Cyclops Bats[]
- Green Bat: Flies around in small circles and slowly chases after you. Releases four short-lived bullets at close range when killed. First appears in Level 6.
- Plague Bat: Slowly chases after you and leaves blobs of goo in its wake. First appears in Level 8.
- Red Bat: Flies around in small circles and sometimes fires a spray of lasers at you. First appears in Level 13.
Wraiths[]
- Leaf Wraith: Stays in one spot and shoots magic bolts that home in on you and leave a trail of leaves in their wake. First appears in Level 6.
- Spark Wraith: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots a group of four sparks at you, which split apart into several small lightning bolts after hitting an edge of the screen. First appears in Level 11.
- Flame Wraith: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots a bar of flames at you. First appears in Level 12.
- Frost Wraith: Stays in one spot and sometimes shoots a wide volley of four ice swords at you. When they touch the edge of the screen, the ice swords bounce off the edge and travel towards wherever you were when they hit the edge, and disappear once they hit the edge a second time. First appears in Level 18.
Sprites[]
- Thunder Sprite: Wanders around the screen and constantly shoots small lightning bolts in random directions; the lightning bolts disappear after travelling a short distance. First appears in Level 12.
- Fire Sprite: Wanders around the screen and constantly shoots small fire waves in random directions; the fire waves travel all the way to the edges of the screen. First appears in Level 12.
- Water Sprite: Wanders around the screen and sometimes shoots bubbles in random directions; the bubbles loosely home in on you for a few seconds and then disappear. First appears in Level 15.
- Ice Sprite: Wanders around the screen and sometimes shoots a volley of three ice shards at you. First appears in Level 17.
Eyes[]
- Ancient Eye: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots lasers vertically. Explodes and shoots lasers in six directions when killed. First appears in Level 13.
- Frozen Eye: Stays in one spot and constantly shoots snowflakes in a clockwise pattern. Explodes and shoots tight volleys of three icicles in eight directions when killed. First appears in Level 17.
Trivia[]
- Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype was developed for Newgrounds's Flash Forward game jam, a jam consisting of Ruffle-friendly flash games in celebration of the rise of Ruffle. The game's developer has plans to release a fully realized version of Bullet Heaven 3 one day.
- Due to time constraints, Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype reuses backgrounds and music from older EBF games - primarily Bullet Heaven 2, Epic Battle Fantasy 4, and Epic Battle Fantasy 5.
- Bullet Heaven 3 Prototype's enemy roster primarily consists of enemy types that have never appeared in the main EBF series, as opposed to the previous two Bullet Heaven games which mostly feature enemies that were previously seen in the main EBF games.
- Level 5's name, Fungus Chungus, is a reference to the Big Chungus meme.