Antsy Alien Attack Pico

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sudo snap install antsy-alien-attack-pico

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A retro-style vertically scrolling shoot 'em up

Plot

The year is 2139. Planet Earth is under attack by aliens, and they're (still) antsy!

Objective

🚀 You're a mercenary with a state-of-the-art space fighter and a gun for hire
👾 The United Federation of Planet Earth has hired you to dispatch the aliens and restore calm
💰️ Complete every mission to fulfil your contract and earn your pay

One ship. One life. One mission

💥 Destroy aliens by shooting or colliding with them
🛸️ Avoid the aliens if you can't destroy them
🔋 Collect power-ups to enhance your weapons and charge the ship dynamo 🛡️ A fully charged dynamo boosts your shields by 50%
🛑 Weapons go offline when travelling at hyperspeed
🌌 When your ship health is depleted, you're lost to the vacuum of space

Controls 🕹️

The joystick interface might need to be connected before the controllers work. Run the following in a terminal.

snap connect antsy-alien-attack-pico:joystick

Antsy Alien Attack Pico should work with most game controllers 🎮️ The in-game visuals show the PICO-8 buttons, but the following shows the equivalent buttons for Xbox controllers.

  • Move with d-pad or left stick
  • A to Fire
  • B to Fire

1-UP Keyboard 1️⃣

  • Arrow keys - Move the ship
  • X or M or V - Fire
  • Z or N or C - Fire

2-UP Keyboard 2️⃣

  • S,D,E,F keys - Move the ship
  • Tab or Q - Fire
  • Shift or A - Fire

Game design 📐

Antsy Alien Attack Pico is a "sequel" to Antsy Alien Attack.

Antsy Alien Attack Pico was developed during Linux Game Jam 2023🐧 using PICO-8.

Full source code and game design plans are available on GitHub 🐙

Details for Antsy Alien Attack Pico

License
  • CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 OR MIT

Last updated
  • 6 June 2023 - latest/stable

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