ABOUT

Embark on a thrilling journey with our retro-inspired endless shoot 'em up game, where you'll face off against relentless waves of aliens to surpass your highest score. Prepare to challenge your reflexes and strategic prowess as you confront an onslaught of diverse enemy ships.




Pilot the Fighter Raptor-4, humanity's last line of defense, as you obliterate hordes of alien foes, dodging their relentless barrages to prolong your survival. With each attempt, you'll hone your skills and predict the enemy movements, enabling you to dispatch them with increasing efficiency.

Are you ready to dive into the heart of the action and claim victory against the alien onslaught?




CONTROLS

This game can be played on a keyboard or controller. The game will automatically switch to the device currently in use. The controls are also visible on the right side of the game.

KEYBOARD

Move: WASD
Shoot: Space bar / Left mouse button
T: Quick restart
P: Reset all scores
Esc: Exit fullscreen

CONTROLLER

Move: Left joystick / Right joystick
Shoot: A / Right trigger
Start: Quick restart


FUTURE PLANS

At the moment, we have planned more enemy variety, weapon variety, bosses, perks and mobile support. For now, we'll try to balance the game with your feedback, and we'll be focusing on enemy spawn rate, spawn locations, and spawn formations.


DEVELOPER NOTE

This game was made for a gamejam of my school. We had 2 days to develop and publish any game. I thought it was fun to challenge myself to create all assets. I'm not an artist or musician, but I think I did my best to create a cool end product.  

Feel free to leave a comment with your highscore or if you come across any problems.


CREDITS

All sprites and audio used in this game are made by me. AI was used in the creation of this storepage to fix any gramatical issues.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Release date Feb 09, 2024
Rating
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorCody-Bolleboom
GenreAction, Shooter
Made withUnity
TagsAliens, Arcade, Black and White, Bullet Hell, Controller, High Score, Retro, Shoot 'Em Up
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Playstation controller

Download

Download
strafe_run_windows.zip 27 MB

Development log

Comments

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If you get te hang of it, its playable and not so hard. But I wouldn't recomend this for beginners. ¯\_(• ~ •)_/¯

I smell skill issue git gud 

It's more entertaining than I'd like to admit.

Some feedback:
- Enemies should stop being able to attack when they are in the process of dying. I've had it happen that some enemies still fired at the end of their death animation, which basically meant a bullet appeared out of thin air after I had already shot said enemy.
- Please just let me start the game by pressing shoot (Space/M1). If I want to do multiple runs in a row it's annoying to have to grab my mouse and click on the ship to start, while I CAN press space to move on from the scoreboard menu. M1 as initial click, sure, but while the window is still in focus it'd be nice to use Space to start.

Thanks for the feedback and notifying me of the bug. I fixed the problems and I agree that this feels better and quicker to use space to start.

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Beat this noob. :3


Fun game! I like the art style :D