What horror descends FROM SKIES BEYOND?
Blistering shooting action in the vein of Defender and Dropzone. Protect the city from literally being lifted in to the sky by alien invaders. Use your radar scanner to find the enemy. Green landers try to carry buildings away, chase them down and destroy them! Bonus awarded for each building left standing at the end of each day.
Click the icon in the top left of the game window for full screen mode.
Controls:
Arrow keys / d-pad / stick - to move
Z key or A button to shoot left
X key or B button to shoot right
Touch screen controls for mobile
Thank you for playing.
Development notes:
This is the first game I've actually ever finished, which includes attempts going back to the late 80s in BBC Basic!
I never used LUA before so had to read up on how to implement linked lists. The game was 99% done this time last year, but there was an NIL object crash bug thanks to some sloppy code that I only got round to chasing down and (fingers crossed) fixing yesterday. It hasn't crashed since and I've played it a lot so... I think I'm good.
If you wanted to delve in to the code you'll find all sorts of weird work arounds for how the game area wraps around, including the map being drawn twice with different x offsets... Many, many fudges and workarounds, but I got everything working exactly how I wanted in the end.
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