The Decline

GamePlay

The aim of this game is to pilot your ship the 'Joseph Cheney' wiping out all the other planetery lifeforms in your path.

The further away from the center of the galaxy you get, the more advanced the planets become. Theres no restrictions on where you can travel thus u can begin at the harder planets if you're feeling suicidal. A better bet though is to stock up on weapons/lives beforehand

Once you attack a planet it then becomes your enemy and will create and launch aliens until theres no more lifeforms left on the planets surface, when theres no aliens left on the planets surface the the last alien will trigger the planets selfdestruct mechanism, as they figure if they cant have the planet noone else can. Some planets are in alliances with other planets thus if you make one an enemy youve effectively made both enemies. The fewer the lifeforms on a planets surface the faster the raiming ones move, making them harder to shoot ala "Space Invaders"

Destroy any meteors you come across since theres often jewels inside which you can rearm the Joseph Cheney with. Weapons are like lives, once your spaceship has no weapons its gameOver

Occasionally an alien will leave behind a powerup after its been destroyed.

Planets come in five different categories

Technilogical (black) = space ships are fast and strong

Ocean (blue) = space ships are slower

Desert (redish) = space ships are fast with powerful weapons, not much shields though

Earth Like = Big slow spaceships but powerful weapons and shields

Ice = slowish ships but with reasonale strength weapons.

Controls

W,A,S,D = Movement

TAB = Switch between gameplay to map

Mouse = Aim

Right mouse button = Shoot

Left mouse button = SmartBomb

Mouse Wheel = Change Weapon

Images

The players got three powerup active at the moment.

Pressing tab will display a map, so you can see your enemies (the planets with the red atmospheres). Here Ive pissed off more than a few planets hence thats why theres 100+ aliens coming after my ass. Use the mouse wheel to zoom the map. The lines between some planets indicate alliances.

With the missle powerup activated, Missles will seek out the nearest enemies.

The players somewhere in the middle there, a good time for the smartbomb methinks. You can also see a mothership there as well, the torus shaped spaceship to destory this ship you must first destroy all its weapons on the outside

Using the beam weapon to slaughter a few thousand inferiors, the red bar indicates how many aliens left on the planet, The 1 indicates tech level one, thus the spaceships from this planet arent very advanced, the highest tech level are level 5 planets.

Early Mockup

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