Power Earth Saver

Power Earth Saver

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overall: 3.82
fun: 3.84
innovation: 3.33
theme: 3.86
graphics: 3.75
audio: 3.75
humor: 2.06
mood: 3.36
Here is my contribution to LD39, written in PICO-8.
PICO-8 is a fantasy console, that has 128x128 pixels, 16 color palette, 32k cardridge (which you write).
This is my second time participating in the LD Compo.

Story

The year is 3017

Earth is under attack again... :grin:

You are the last space pilot :rocket:

Unfortunately, your ship has only one generator left.. :fearful:

Choose wisely where you direct its power! :electric_plug:

How to play


Controls:
* Use left and right arrow keys to move
* Use up and down arrow keys to select where you direct your power: recharge your cannon, rockets or shield
* Use Z to fire your cannon
* Use X to fire your rockets

* Catch powerups to replenish some power, do more damage, recover faster
* Note that your cannon is more powerful when fully charged
* The color of the bullets indicate how much damage they do, same for the enemy's bullets.

#### Update 1.1
* Edited within compo time
* All ships now have glowy parts
* Ships have varying fire rate
* Player ship slightly bigger
* Enemies now have aiming cannons, making it impossible to camp in a corner
* Higher max hp, because of added difficulty
* Time for new ships reduced

#### Update 1.2
* Thanks to impbox on IRC for these suggestions
* Edited within compo time
* Less asteroids, more stars
* Inertia when moving left/right
* Minor improvements

#### Update 1.3
* Edited within compo time
* now shows an integer as high score, instead of a float

#### Update 1.4: bug fix
* enemies aiming bullets are now deleted when off-screen, fixes slowness

#### Update 1.5: bug fix
* shield powerup never came due to wrong number of powerups in line 241 (changed 4 to 5)

Released under CC4-BY-NC-SA.
This license allows anyone to reuse, remix and share for non-commercial use, with attribution.
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