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.

• https://github.com/wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack

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

• https://itch.io/jam/linux-game-jam2023
• https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

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

• https://github.com/wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack-pico