Trailer for 24 Caret Games’ Retro/Grade.

It’s a PC shoot’em-up played in reverse! Players have to dodge rearward lasers while catching their own shots.

Retro/Grade also features rhythm game elements, in that the timing of the lasers is based on the music’s beats, and players can choose to play with a guitar controller and move their ship around the lanes by hitting fret buttons.

You can read a Q&A I conducted with one of the programmers behind the Independent Games Festival finalist over at Gamasutra.

See also: Snapshot trailer, Osmos trailer

tags / retrograde / 24 caret games / igf / pc / ec