Shelf Fighters Turns Barcodes Into Battlers

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Shelf Fighters maps a product barcode through a hash to generate a repeatable combatant, including its class, element, stats, sprite, name, and three moves. The project describes 80 story levels across eight sectors, an endless mode whose enemies grow 8% per stage, and local two-phone exhibition battles. Its software-attacking-software theme extends to move names drawn from real exploits and fault classes. The site identifies Sothis Gaming as a one-person project and says the game remains in private testing.