Aspect Shift

Aspect Shift is an endless, top down , bullet hell, space game.

Your mission is to survive as long as you can against an ever increasing number of attacking alien spaceships. Due to a power distribution fault on your ship, you are only able to shoot or activate auxiliary thrusters separately from each other.  This means you can either move or shoot, but not both at once.

Along your journey you'll be greeted by virtual traders that can offer you software upgrades for your ship, improving hardware efficiency and even adding new features. You may only select one item from each trader, each upgrade has 5 levels of improvement.

Upgrade Item List

  Full Heal

When selected in the upgrade shop, this item will immediately refill all lost lives.

  Rapid Fire

When selected in the upgrade shop, this upgrade will increase your main gun's rate of fire.  This upgrade is maxed at level 5.

  Angle Fire

When selected in the upgrade shop, this upgrade will activate your secondary angled guns on level 1 and increase their rate of fire for each additional level.  This upgrade is maxed at level 5.

  Intermittent Shield

When selected in the upgrade shop, this upgrade will activate your intermittent shield drive on level 1 and increase the length of time it can be maintained for each additional level.  This upgrade is maxed at level 5.

   Speed Up

When selected in the upgrade shop, this upgrade will increase the power of your auxiliary thrusters. This will allow you to move around the screen quicker, your speed increases with each additional level.  This upgrade is maxed at level 5.

   Health Drop

This small health crate has a 1 in 15 chance of being dropped by an enemy when destroyed. Collecting it will heal your ship by one life.

Although this is currently a "complete" endless style game, this is far from the end product I intend to make Aspect Shift into. I plan on adding a large number of new upgrades, additional random events with original mega boss ship artwork as well as 2 additional game modes. If you enjoyed playing, please support this project.

Aspect shift is designed for play on both PC and mobile.

PC Controls;

W - Up

A - Left

S - Down

D - Right

Mobile touch controls;

Tap/Hold in the indicated area to move the ship in the desired direction.

As multitouch is not supported yet, you must hold your finger still  when moving or the action will be canceled.

NOTES

This game is unlikely to run in Safari, if you are trying to run this game on an apple product please install and use Chrome.

Credits

A Games in DPTH Production

Designed, Developed, Produced & Published by Freddie Hughes

Player Spaceship & GUI Artwork – Freddie Hughes

 

External Attributions

Sound – ZapSplat.com

Upgrade Icons – Lorc (https://opengameart.org/content/700-rpg-icons)

Alien Spaceships – pzUH (https://opengameart.org/content/alien-spaceship-sprite-pack)

Space Mist & Objects – GameArtGuppy.com

Health Crate – GameArtGuppy.com

Player Bullets – GameArtGuppy.com