Geometry Rift: Apocalypse

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• Announcements·19 Jul 2026Official

  When two weapons become one

  My son and I had this stuck in our heads for a long time: that sacred survivor-like moment where you max out a weapon and it suddenly turns into something else.They're in the game now: 10 evolutions, each a fusion of two weapons. The rule we set ourselves is that every weapon is used exactly once, so no evolution is "free" — to unlock one you have to max out both its parents. When that golden card finally shows up in the level-up, you know you earned it.The balance nearly gave me a heart attack. Once they were working, my son started testing them the way only a kid tests — hunting for the broken one. He found it in five minutes. I sat down and measured what each one actually deals against the boss (8000 health): SOLAR FLARE took 6 to 8 MINUTES to kill it; HIVE MIND melted it in 6 SECONDS. The same batch of weapons, a 70x gap between the weakest and the nastiest. We rewrote them all.A couple that have us hooked: PRISM ARRAY fires a fan of colored shards that ricochet off the walls (the bouncing was my son's idea). And MAELSTROM is an endless spiral of bullets in the color of your ship — you become a galaxy of projectiles. There are eight more.We've had a blast making these. Try them and tell us which one drives you wild — and which you think is still broken, because we've definitely missed one.See you in the rift.
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• Announcements·9 Jul 2026Official

  From a Green Phosphor Prototype to a 4K Neon Universe

  Hi everyone!I'm Awezoom. With almost 50 years under my belt, I've spent a lifetime tinkering with computers, programming, designing, and composing music since the days when games were nothing more than pixels, and the demoscene and trackers were among us.Throughout my life, one thing hasn't changed. Video games have always been my great passion—and they still are—and today I want to talk to you about one of the most special projects I've ever worked on: Geometry Rift, a game I am developing side by side with my 16-year-old son under our label, Dad and Son Games.To sum it up quickly, imagine the unmistakable neon-light visual style and the frantic ship-shooting gameplay in the purest Geometry Wars style, crossed with the addictive progression and extreme survival challenge of a Vampire Survivors. We’ve taken that arcade essence of piloting, dodging, and shooting in a hyper-colorful environment, and brought it into a modern roguelite universe where survival is everything.This means the key isn't just your skill with the controller, but how you evolve during combat to stay alive. As you play, you'll level up and upgrade your ship on the fly, choosing new weapons and power-ups to create devastating builds. You'll go from shooting a basic laser to becoming an absolute destruction machine capable of clearing the screen of thousands of enemies just to survive one more minute.The Origin: A Small Retro ExperimentIt all started very casually. I was working on another project, a narrative video game called Still Breathing. In one of the locations in that game, there is an old green phosphor computer that the player can use, and we wanted to include some interactive minigames in it. Thinking about what games to put into that console, I remembered Geometry Wars, a game I was heavily addicted to during the Xbox 360 era and which is already a modern classic. I thought to myself: "Man, it would be awesome to make a tribute to it."I made a very simple version, imitating that green p...
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• Announcements·24 Jun 2026Official

  Quest for perfect Glow: A short story behind Geometry Rift look

  Chasing The Glow I’ve been obsessed with one thing since the beginning of Geometry Rift: I wanted the screen to fill with colored light.Not just a glow around each enemy. I wanted groups of enemies to create areas of color. If ten orange enemies are together, that area should feel orange. If a group of blue enemies is nearby, both colors should mix naturally. Bright near the vector lines, softer as it spreads out.It sounds simple, but getting there has been one of those small technical battles that ends up eating far more time than expected. Which is also, to be honest, one of the reasons I enjoy making games. - The first prototype of Geometry Rift started as a minigame in Still Breathing -I come from the demoscene, so this kind of thing matters to me. I like when visuals are not just decoration, but part of the feel of the game. Geometry Rift started as something I wanted to build with my son, but it also connects directly with the games I grew up loving: arcade games, shooters, vector graphics, particles, synth music, too many things happening on screen, and that feeling that the machine is doing something a bit excessive just because it looks good.First Attempt: Godot’s GlowAt first I used Godot’s built-in glow.In Godot 4.3 and 4.4 it actually gave a falloff very close to what I wanted. The glow was meant to spread nicely, with a soft gradient that looked great over the dark background. It had that kind of smooth color wash I was looking for.The problem is after Godot 4.6, the glow changed. The falloff I liked was gone, or at least it no longer behaved the way I needed. So the first solution was basically dead. The default Godot glow is just a shiny border, which is not bad, but it's very far of my goal.Going Back To Geometry WarsAt that point I started looking again at how older games solved this. Geometry Wars was the obvious reference. It is still one of the best examples of how to make simple shapes feel huge with color and bloom.The idea is very old-school a...
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