Astral Drifters

ASTRAL DRIFTERS

Astral Drifters is a shooter game in which you control a ship surrounded by enemies. There is no way out - so how many can you take down with you?

CHANGELOG:

v1.5:

- Decreased laserbeam damage (7 => 6)

- Decreased missile damage (15 => 10)

- Meteors now spawn and break

- Added Tactical Abilities

- Added cooldown indicators

v1.4:

- Improved UI

- Added Game Over screen

- Added Pause screen (Escape)

- Increased player armor

- Decreased laserbeam damage(10 => 7)

v1.3:

- Decreased player armor

- Improved leveling system

- Changed enemy spawn rates

- Decreased rocket damage (200 => 125)

- Fixed a meteor bug that would cause it to spawn in unintended locations

- Increased VeXeR fire spread

- Increased CobrA health (50 => 60)

v1.2:

- Added the CobrA and the VeXeR

- Increased player armor

- Added Infinite Boost powerup

- Increased FOV

- Fixed a bug where the player would stop upon colliding with powerups

- Increased player speed

v1.1:

- Buffed the Galactic Destroyer

- Added a UI and level system

- Added an options menu with an adjustable minimap size

- Minimap now has visible icons; red represents an enemy, blue represents a boost pack, green represents a health pack, and white represent the player's ship

- Explosions now deal damage to any enemy that come in contact with them

WEAPONS:

Missiles (Right Mouse Button):

- Damage: 10

- Rate of Fire: 8

Lasers (Left Mouse Button):

- Damage: 6

- Rate of Fire: 3

Rockets (Right & Left Mouse Button):

- Damage: 125

- Rate of Fire: 100

TACTICAL ABILITIES

Blast Aura (A):

- Randomly drops 4 bombs in a small radius around the player.

- Cooldown: 600

- Damage: >20

Rocket Barrage (D):

- Shoots 20 missiles in a circle around the player.

- Cooldown: 500

- Damage (per missile): 5

POWERUPS:

Health Pack (Green) - Restores Health

Boost Pack (Aqua) - Restores Boost Fuel

Infinite Boost (Yellow) - Grants unlimited boost usage for 100 game ticks

CONTROLS:

- W to move forward.

- Space to decelerate.

- Shift to speed up.

- Escape to return to the menu.

ENEMIES:

Battleship:

- The most common enemy.

- Damage: 5

- HP: 120

- Speed: 4

- Rate of Fire: 50

UFO:

- A mysterious flying object. Fires three lasers at once.

- Damage: 6, 7, 6

- HP: 80

- Speed: 7

- Rate of Fire: 50

Galactic Destroyer:

- A fearsome ship. However, its large stats make it slow.

- Damage: 8

- HP: 200

- Speed: 1.5

- Rate of Fire: 35

CobrA:

- Very fast, equipped with a machine gun. Its immense speed and small rate of fire make it a rather weak target.

- Damage: 2

- HP: 60

- Speed: 10

- Rate of Fire: 5

VeXeR:

- Shoots in a widespread pattern. Small, hard to hit.

- Damage: 4

- HP: 100

- Speed: 5

- Rate of Fire: 15

CREDITS:

Astral Drifters by Ruyi Li. Assets by Kenney (https://kenney.nl/).