Just over a week ago developer No Code revealed their latest project, a crazy one-touch shooter called Super Arc Light. I had a chance to sit down and try it this week at GDC, and it’s even more awesome in person than the already pretty awesome trailer led me to believe. You travel around the circle in the center of the screen blasting away a variety of approaching enemies using a variety of awesome weaponry. You accomplish all that with just a single tap, but the catch is that every time you touch the screen to fire you also change the direction you’re traveling around the circle when you let up off the screen.
The whole direction-switching mechanic is brilliant in its simplicity, and it’s the sort of thing that you have to wrap your brain around at first but eventually you warm right up to it and you’ll find yourself blasting away baddies left and right (literally). Super Arc Light will release as a premium game and should be available sometime this month, so be on the lookout for it soon.
