ESCAPE POD 12

After the tide turned against your favor in battle, you were ordered to abandon ship by your captain and flee in a combat-capable escape pod. Rescue is on the way, but this area of space seems to be infested by space bugs, and they thrive on oxygen. Sadly, there's no oxygen in space, so you're their only source of food.

Shoot asteroids to harvest fuel. Kill the bugs and regain your precious oxygen. And most importantly, don't suffocate in the void of space. Good luck, soldier.

Controls

• WASD: move
• Mouse: look
• Left Click: shoot
• Spacebar: boost
• F: switch control scheme
  • Default: controls are absolute, regardless of look direction
  • Alt: controls are relative to look direction

Tutorial

You have two resources to manage, fuel and oxygen. 

You lose fuel by moving (WASD) and by shooting (left click). Aim your ship by placing your mouse in the direction you would like to look at. Boosting (spacebar) makes you move much faster, but you also use more fuel. You can gain fuel by picking up fuel pellets dropped by asteroids. You can destroy an asteroid by shooting it, and it has a chance to drop fuel. These pellets will shrink and expire after a short period of time.

Second is oxygen. You lose oxygen at a slow rate from breathing. If space bugs come near you, they will extract oxygen from your ship. If you kill a space bug, it has a chance to drop oxygen that you can harvest. Like fuel, dropped oxygen will expire after a short time.

When you run out of oxygen, your screen will start to go red. If you regain oxygen in this period, you will be safe. If you stay at 0% oxygen, you will die.

Your escape pod will be rescued after five minutes. This is how you win. See how high of a score you can get and post it in the comments!

Remarks

This game was made by a single developer in 7 days during the Godot Wild Jam #69. All art was made in-engine with simple shapes. Sound effects were generated with sfxr (specifically jsfxr) and Audacity. The primary font used is Capture It.

I've tried to reduce the difficulty to a reasonable level for a new player, but I hope it's not too hard or too easy. Feel free to leave feedback in the comments! (However, I won't be able to update the game during the voting period.)