Portugues
Crater Space
Saved games stay in this browser only.
About the game
On the moon of planet Figadore, the Regolith starships are back, and this time they have cloaked themselves. Three of them are hiding somewhere in the crater field, and the only way to find them is to fire splat missiles at the grid and see what sticks.
It is a hunt on an eight-by-eight board, in the spirit of the old paper game of sinking ships. The three ships are two, three and four squares long, lying in a row or a column. Click a square to fire: a green splat means a miss and a pink one means a hit. You have 24 missiles, but hits do not count against you, only misses do. When a ship is covered in splat, one of the three ship indicators at the bottom turns black. The goal is to find all three with as few misses as possible, and the game keeps your best score.
picosonic made Crater Space for js13kGames 2021, whose theme was "Space", and built it for phones held upright. The craters are 3D models generated by code, and the ship and missile icons use art from Kenney's "Space Shooter Extension".
Playing it here
Click Play, then click a square to fire. The game is drawn in portrait, so on a computer it appears as a tall panel with grey bars at the sides, and on a phone it fills the screen. Your best score stays in this browser. The optional "decentralised" mode of the original, which asked an online randomness service for the seed, was removed.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Mouse click, or a tap on a touchscreen | fire at the square you click; press PLAY to start or play again |
A few things worth knowing
Start with a pattern. Shots on every other square, like the dark squares of a chessboard, are guaranteed to touch every ship, even the two-square one.
A hit tells you where to look next. Ships are straight lines, so fire around the pink splat in a plus shape before you move on.
Misses are the score. You have plenty of missiles, so spend the hits freely and be picky about the shots that might miss.
Credits and licence
Crater Space was created by Jasper Renow-Clarke (picosonic), with art from Kenney's "Space Shooter Extension" (CC0). The game is released under the MIT licence; the licence texts are linked from this page.