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Moon Dragoon
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About the game
Moon Dragoon is a side-scrolling shooter set on the surface of the Moon, with the Earth hanging in the black sky behind you. You drive a small armed buggy along an endless grey landscape of flat stretches and bumps. Gravity is weak, so the buggy floats through every jump, and you can steer a little in the air while you aim.
Round robots in orange, purple and red come at you in groups from the sides and from above, firing purple bolts. You answer with the gun on the roof of the buggy, which points wherever the mouse points and fires while you hold the left button. Each kill adds to your score, and kills in a row build a combo that multiplies it, so staying alive and keeping the chain going is worth more than any single kill. Your buggy has a three-segment shield bar under it that recharges after a pause, and when it is gone the run ends with a game over screen that shows your score, your best combo, your kills and a table of high scores, plus a random line of dramatic last words.
The graphics are bright, clean cartoon art, the music is a set of chiptune tracks and the sounds are short and punchy. It was made in two weeks by two people for a jam, and it plays like it: one idea, done properly, in a small package.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait for the page to load (about 10 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). An intro screen waits for a key; the first time you play, a help screen then shows the keys, and Esc or Enter closes it. A mouse is needed to aim. Your high scores are kept in your browser.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| A / D or Left / Right arrows | drive left and right |
| W, Z or Up arrow | jump |
| Mouse | aim the gun |
| Left mouse button | shoot |
| M | mute or unmute the music |
| R | restart after game over |
| Esc | show or hide the help screen |
Tips
Jump to stay up. The low gravity gives you a long hang time. Use it to get above bolts and to line up shots.
Keep the combo. The score of every kill is multiplied by your current combo, and every hit you take resets it to zero, so a long clean chain is worth much more than the same kills one at a time.
Aim ahead. The bolts and the robots move, so shoot where they will be.
It gets harder. As the minutes pass the robots shoot faster, but every kill is also worth more.
FAQ
Is it saved? The high score table is kept in your browser. Nothing else is.
Does it work on a phone? No. It needs a mouse and a keyboard.
Is it really free to share? Yes. The code is MIT, the graphics are CC BY-SA, and the music, sounds, textures and fonts are under free licences, all listed below.
Credits and licence
Moon Dragoon was made by Johannes Danneker and Rémi Verschelde for the GitHub Game Off 2020, with Godot. Code under the MIT licence; graphics under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), attributed to Johannes Danneker. It runs on Godot Engine 3.5.3 (MIT).
- Music: "5 Chiptunes (Action)" by Juhani Junkala (SubspaceAudio), CC0.
- Sound effects: "Superpowers assets sound effects" by Pixel-boy / Sparklin Labs (MedicineStorm), CC0.
- Sound effects: "4 projectile launches" by Michel Baradari (apollo-music.de), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), used without changes.
- Textures: a photograph of the Earth from the Moon (NASA, CC0) and "Ground 027" (CC0 Textures, CC0), edited by Johannes Danneker.
- Godot logo in the intro by Andrea Calabró, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
- Fonts: Fira Sans and Fira Mono, Mozilla Foundation and Telefonica S.A., SIL Open Font License 1.1.
The licence texts, the notices of the libraries inside the Godot engine and the source of this build are linked from this page.