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You are a pilot of a spaceship, who needs to protect earth alone against overwhelming alien attacks. However most of the time you must stay in the earth orbit, moving around earth to block the attacks.
Besides regular attacks, you even face burst waves of enemies, as well as a boss fight. To stand a chance, you must use whatever you can.
HOW TO PLAY:
Simply hold left mouse key and move around, the space ship will follow the cursor.
However, it will be constrained on the earth orbit, and you will need power ups to provide more freedom. You can explore various power ups and find how they work.
Coworker:
Danny Zhu, Li Feng, Zhan Jia and Lu Yu
PS: you may notice you only need one button to play this game. however, there is 'a' keyboard button which immediately calls the boss fight. uh oh I already told you :D
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 63% |
| #310 | Audio(Jam) | 3.39 |
| #312 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.80 |
| #411 | Fun(Jam) | 3.28 |
| #465 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.21 |
| #565 | Overall(Jam) | 3.27 |
| #572 | Mood(Jam) | 3.15 |
| #636 | Humor(Jam) | 2.43 |
| #955 | Theme(Jam) | 2.93 |
Comments
Pretty fun game. Music is great, as people said, but explosion effects are really low quality and ear piercing. Also particle effects could use some work.
Cool game!! But very difficult.. I can't beat the boss level, those laser... grrr
That was very fun !!
To CustomPhase: Thanks for advice :D ! Indeed they aren't very satisfactory. I guess I have to work harder on my graphics in the future.
To Monetai: Haha indeed! My teammates and I also fail the level quite often. You need a bit of luck to pass the level :D
Really fun game. Fun to smash your ship into stuff. Great work
i Love the concept and music is veryyyyy cool. 5/5 in music and sound effects
Good idea. It's fun and difficult. Nice graphics and music.
Great work.
i pushed earth out of the screen... not sure if this is right...
@Aerohand well that seems to happen quite often... should have added a mechanism to get the earth back. However, sometimes you can win by pushing the earth out at the right time :D
I Really like when you get all the energy, its really satisfying i like that!
Really good game! I have to confess, the Pacific Rim soundtrack made the game a little better for me.
However the idea is good, I especially loved the plot twist at the end. The gameplay is smooth too and the graphics and visual effects are very nice.
Excellent job!
@Taldius Thanks! The plot twist wasn't in our plan actually. pushing the earth was as an accidental bug :D Then we got inspired and added the boss fight.
The game concept is great, but playing the game, the earth disapears from the screen :\
Pretty difficult game, but definitely interesting and fun! The Earth-pushing mechanics are a tad hard to use, though.
Nice look, nothing too novel but pretty fun. I wish the area of the map was bigger though. The sounds are a little much at times also.
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That's a twisted shoot'em'up, loved the idea of colliding against the objects to destroy the asteroids. I think the ship moves a bit too slow, but thatś a minor complaint. The music made me wish I could crash some kaijus in outer space ;).