Starlight Attack - Early Demo!

RETRIEVE YOUR PLANET!

Evil alien race The Axelites have shrunk and stolen your home planet, Starlight.  

Fly through space in this 2D hand drawn classic arcade space shooter, and fight off all sorts of aliens, robots and monsters in a race to save your people!

Planned Features:

- Gorgeous hand drawn animation and art! -

- A snappy techno soundtrack to get your heart pumpin’! -

- Classic arcade styled action! -

- Big, menacing bosses to take down! -

- Defeat a boss without taking damage? Be prepared for PINCH MODE! -

- Upgrade your ship using your scored points as currency! -

- Create your own levels with a built-in level editor! -

- Full controller support! -

What's in the demo?

The demo aims to give you a small taste of what we've been working on, in the form of two stages from the first world; loaded with 2 bosses to defeat! The game is still very much in development, we're constantly changing and adding new stuff, so everything is subject to change; but we just couldn't wait to get something in front of you guys!

Controls

-PC-
WASD/Arrow Keys - Movement
SHIFT - Dash
SPACE - Shoot

-Xbox Controller-
D-Pad/Left Stick - Movement
A/LB - Dash
X/RT - Shoot

-PS4 Controller-
D-Pad/Left Stick - Movement
CROSS/L1 - Dash
SQUARE/R2 - Shoot

*Full input remapping support (both on keyboard/mouse as well as on controller) is planned - but not yet available in this demo!

What's the animation like?

Here's some GIFs to give you an idea of how we're crafting our game.

Some Videos

Feedback? Ideas? Want to say hi? You're invited to join our Discord server!

Since we're still in acive development, we'd love to hear your suggestions & feedback on the demo - as your input is invaluable to us in crafting the perfect experience. Also we love chatting with you guys, and sharing tid bits about the developement of the game; come join our Discord and say hi!

https://discord.gg/nENFXZB