Depth-First Search

Depth-First Search

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overall: 3.33
fun: 3.20
innovation: 2.98
theme: 3.29
graphics: 3.17
audio: 2.70
humor: 2.02
mood: 3.30
Travel to the center of the galaxy using humanity's hyperspace wormhole infrastructure. At each hop, race against the clock to complete objectives stopping you from progressing deeper. Purchase upgrades with Quarks to improve your spaceship's maneuverability, survivability, and power.

Will you reach the center of the galaxy?

Crashing to desktop on launch? Your graphics drivers might not support Vulkan, upgrading them may help.

Tip: Having trouble controlling your ship? Try the Inertial Dampeners upgrade from the shop — only 10 Quarks!

🎮 Controls

* Move ship: `W`, `A`, `S`, `D`, `Space`, `C`
* Roll: `Q`, `E`
* Fire lasers: `Left Mouse`
* Jump to Hyperspace (when a level is complete): `G`
* Toggle Inertial Dampeners (when unlocked): `V`

💻 Technology

Written from scratch in Rust using wgpu-rs, rapier, egui, and many more great community libraries!

Depth-First Search automatically saves your progress regularly. If it crashes, it should pick back up where you left off when the game is reopened. You can delete 'save.json' to start over!

📝 Patch Notes

2020-04-28

* Fixed game getting stuck if you die after winning a level. Now, you'll instead get a little bit of bonus health!

2021-04-27

* Fixed hit markers not appearing when alien eggs are hit with lasers (Reported by pandepic)
* Fixed crash from trying to access bonus memory
* Fixed enemies shooting themselves, spamming you with hit marker noises
* Fixed enemies shooting their own eggs
* Fixed random collection objectives sometimes being impossible to complete
* Fixed eyes insta-killing players upon spawning

📷 Screenshots

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