Andromeda

Andromeda is my first seven day game.  The player is piloting a space ship that’s being assaulted by hordes of ever-increasing enemies.  There are a variety of tools at the player’s disposal, like blasters, homing torpedos and an detachable energy pike.  The objective is to kill as many enemies as possible before they overwhelm you. 

Be warned, the game is quite hard.

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Controls

  • Arrow Keys – Steer the ship
  • Space or Left Shift – Shoot torpedos if you have energy.  These home in on targets in front of you.
  • Left Ctrl – Shoot blasters
  • Tab – Deploy/Call back StormPike

    • Tips

  • Absorb enemy shots with the StormPike when it’s attached to you.  Then use the energy you got to shoot torpedos.
  • Launching the pike allows it to home in on and kill the small ball enemies.  This gives you health.
  • You can shoot through the Hoplite enemy’s shield if you get close enough.  You can shoot around it or batter it down with enough fire.
  • Launch the pike at Hoplites to kill them with one hit.
  • Kill the small balls before they rebuild themseves.

    • Other

    You can run Andromeda in full screen mode by passing “-fullscreen” parameter to Andromeda.exe.  You can also run the provided .bat file.
    If you get tired of the awesome IndieBird splash screen, you can turn it off with “-nosplash”.  Just be sure to view it once in a while to keep the subliminal messages active.

    Also, the game can be paused by pressing “P”.

    Thanks To

    Andromeda uses resources provided by the generous individuals below.  Without them it would not have looked and sounded as it does.  Also, important libraries were used during development, saving the author much work and stress.

    Erin Catto (www.box2d.org)   - Box2D Physics Library
    Daniel Cook (www.lostgarden.com)  - Sinistar Remake Sprite Set

    The makers of the following fine libraries:

    SDL
    SDL_mixer
    FreeImage

    Sound effects were taken from www.freesound.org and are licensed under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license.  See http://www.freesound.org/legal.php for details.  The following freesound contributors had their effects used:

    lostchocolatelab
    Hell’s Sound Guy
    inferno
    acclivity
    Streety
    ERH
    Jovica
    ljudman
    vajrapani
    nthompson
    smcameron
    tigersound

    The text font was downloaded from www.aenigmafonts.com

    Legal

    This game is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.  See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for human readable form.  Read http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode for a lawyer-readable text and the specific terms of the license.

    If you re-distribute the game, you have to clearly indicate that it may be found at www.indiebird.com

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