ASA - Arcane Space Adventures

NASA sans N

A one-man hobby project. 

Featuring

• Interplanetary travel.
  
• Movement and combat by means of fireballs (like project Orion).
• Planetary exploration with ruins and shrines to explore.
• A progression system by praying at said shrines and freeing and obtaining followers
  
• Forts with enemies.
• A final boss, lurking on their home planet.

Controls

Many of these features get unlocked through the progression system.

• Left mouse button to shoot fireballs.
• Left and Right keyboard keys to slowly walk left and right.
• F5 to save, F9 to load, F12 to wipe save and restart game
• A, S, D : change viewing mode: local, mixed and system view
• numpad +, - : zoom in, out in mixed and system view
• regular keys 1, 2, 3, 4 : switch between fireball strengths
• F + J + Space to pray at a shrine and obtain boons
• O, P controls music volume. There is only small and large to choose from. Sorry...

Removed controls in ver. 1.0.0

• Q to temporarily speed up system simulation
  
• Numpad 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 : switch between projection modes in mixed and system views
  
• Debug mode (F1) is no longer available from version 0.3.0. Debug mode in the previous version enables access to more powerful fireballs.
  

Releases

• 1.0.4 : 'minor' improvements, introducing temporary invulnerability on reload of game
• 1.0.3 : Improved 'onboarding' and player status clarity
• 1.0.2 : Improvement to goal clarity.
• 1.0.1 : Improved various graphic effects plus begun refactorization of the save-system.
• 1.0.0 : Release version! Expect bugs!
• 0.3.1 : Solved an infinite loop bug. Whole lot of rebalancing of the game. Overall improved the player experience. Solved a bug with the save system and improved it as well.
• 0.3.0 : Includes foundations for much more contents: more forts, enemies and now also shrines and ruins. Music, effects, particles, save points and much more is included.
• 0.2.0 : Reworked some textures. Enemies now respond to the player.
• 0.1.0 : First release

Known issues

• The current save system works most of the time. Saving and loading before and after praying at a shrine is iffy.
• There are currently no other resolutions other than 1200x600 pixels. Only workaround is changing screen zoom.