Daxolissian System: Saboteur

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Published 2020-02-16

Update

Now it keeps your zoom level the same if you die on a level and/or restart it. That should help a lot if you want to do the Escape level zoomed out. The zoom will go back to default if you exit to the level select screen and restart.


Comments

Entry for the Phaser game jam, going for an action game since it seemed the best way to test and show off Phaser's abilities to do cool stuff smoothly and without turning games into bloatware (this whole game is less than 2 MB zipped). Coded by someone who didn't know JavaScript or even HTML when the jam started and still pretty much doesn't lol.


If you have trouble handling the ship and think this is an impossible game about trying to blaze full speed at tiny targets: try not blazing around at top speed and learn to make good use of the inertial dampeners (brakes) because they can be helpful.


If it's still too hard, camera zoom keys are B and V. And if you used the camera zoom on any levels and want to try for the no-zoom medal, the level select screen will have levels completed with zoom in green so you know which ones to redo to go for the medal.


Controls

Up arrow: Accelerate

Left / Right arrows: Turn

Down arrow: Inertial dampening (protip: this is more effective than turning around and accelerating the the opposite direction if you're going really fast)

Space: Fire laser

B / V: Zoom camera (the game is meant to be played at the initial zoom setting and using the radar -- only use zoom if it's too hard without it)

R: Restart level

X: eXit to level select

Tidbit: you can press a number key from the level select screen to start that level, so you don't really need the mouse after you click Play