A downloadable game for Windows

After being abducted by aliens, you have managed to escape and have boarded one of their combat ships. Everything is normal at first. But as you gather the power cells you need to fuel your warp drive to get home, the controls start changing.

You're near an enemy and suddenly forward moves you backward. You fire your gun and now you can't activate your shield. Plus left is right every other time. What is happening?

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If {Ships} is a standard top-down shoot-em-up where the controls change function depending on what's happening in the game. It's easy to see what they do, but nearly impossible to remember it all in the heat of battle!


Reviewers

If the game is too easy, please try again. The conditions are randomly chosen and you may have received a lucky roll. Each run should only take about 3 minutes to fully complete.

I'm an experienced software engineer. This is my first game that is complete and well playable.

Credits

Programming by Shelby Doolittle

Art, iconography, sound effects, and music: Purchased or available with open license by various creators.

Download

Download
if_ships.zip 104 MB

Install instructions

Extract the whole zip file and run the included executable.  Be sure the pck file is in the same directory as the executable.

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