A retro-style vertically scrolling shoot 'em up
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**Plot**

_The year is 2139.
Planet Earth is under attack by aliens, and they're (still) antsy!_

**Objective**

**You're a mercenary** with a state-of-the-art space fighter and a gun for hire

The United Federation of Planet Earth has hired you to **dispatch the aliens and restore calm**

️ **Complete every mission** to fulfil your contract and earn your pay

**One ship.
One life.
One mission**

Destroy aliens by **shooting or colliding with them**

️ **Avoid the aliens** if you can't destroy them

Collect power-ups to enhance your weapons and **charge the ship dynamo**

️ A fully charged **dynamo boosts your shields by 50%**

**Weapons go offline** when travelling at hyperspeed

When your ship health is depleted, **you're lost to the vacuum of space**

**Controls** ️

The joystick interface might need to be connected before the controllers work.
Run the following in a terminal.

`snap connect antsy-alien-attack-pico:joystick`

**Antsy Alien Attack Pico should work with most game controllers** ️ The in-game visuals show the PICO-8 buttons, but the following shows the equivalent buttons for Xbox controllers.

- Move with d-pad or left stick

- A to Fire

- B to Fire

**1-UP Keyboard** 1️⃣

- Arrow keys - Move the ship

- X or M or V - Fire

- Z or N or C - Fire

**2-UP Keyboard** 2️⃣

- S,D,E,F keys - Move the ship

- Tab or Q - Fire

- Shift or A - Fire

**Game design**

Antsy Alien Attack Pico is a _"sequel"_ to Antsy Alien Attack.

- https://github.com/wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack

Antsy Alien Attack Pico was developed during Linux Game Jam 2023 using PICO-8.

- https://itch.io/jam/linux-game-jam2023

- https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

**Full source code and game design plans are available on GitHub**

- https://github.com/wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack-pico

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