13 Mar
2011

You Are Now In Space

Controls

  • Arrow keys to move.

  • X to fire.

About The Game

We wanted to make a game with simple mechanics combined with intentionally buggy and quirky behaviour that a skilled player can use to get a better score. This is the result. We also made it in the style of a C64 game and added some more bugs and quirky behaviour for laughs.

The basic mechanics are like Space Invaders, so remember, instead of shooting where the enemies are, shoot where they’re going to be :).

If, by some stroke of genius or good fortune, you kill all the enemies in a formation, then a well-known computer-game personality will award you a special bonus.

Made in 48 hours for Mini Ludum Dare 25 by Dan Cassidy and George Weller. The theme of the competition was “The Worst Game I Have Ever Made”.

In 2019 we ported this game from Flash to HTML with help from Ian Johnson.

Source Code.

I’m Dan. I build software. Sometimes I put things on the web.

I like software and games and graphics and typography and music and tea and comedy and giraffes.

I love hyperbole. It’s the best thing ever.

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