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Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone!
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About the game
Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone! is a small vertical shoot-em-up made of triangles, squares and circles. You fly a blue ship up a dark-blue field, and red shapes come down from the top of the screen to shoot at you. The theme of the jam it was made for was "less is more", and the game takes it literally: your ship has only five points of health, and the less health you still have, the more bullets you fire and the faster you fire them. Being hit hurts, but it also makes you dangerous.
You start with three lives. Pickups on the field give you a shield, a drone that fights beside you, or a bomb, and the right side of the screen shows which ones you have. The enemies move in patterns, some in straight lines and some in circles, and so do their bullets, so the fun is in reading the pattern and finding the gap. There is a boss to beat, and the game keeps your high score.
The graphics are plain shapes in a small palette, and the sound effects have the chirpy sound of old arcade machines. Electronic tracks play over the action.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait for the game to load (about 50 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). Click once inside the game so that it gets the keyboard, then choose "New game". "How to play" shows the controls and the pickups.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| W, A, S, D | move the ship |
| Space | shoot |
| Shift | drop a bomb |
| Esc | pause |
Tips
Stay in the middle. You have more time to see a pattern coming when you are not pressed against the edge.
Low health is not always bad. At one point of health you shoot much faster, so a careful, low-health run can clear a wave very quickly.
Keep a bomb for an emergency. The bomb is your panic button for when a pattern closes in around you, so do not spend it early.
FAQ
Does it work on a phone? The game needs a keyboard, so it is meant for a computer.
Is my high score saved? Yes, it is kept in your browser on this device.
Credits and licence
Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone! was made by Gina Häußge ("foosel") for Go Godot Jam 4 and runs on Godot Engine 4.4.1 (the game was made with Godot 4.0). The code, the graphics and the sound effects are by the author; the code is under the MIT licence.
- Music: "Screams in the Distance" (Eternity Pack), "Synth Kobra" and "Spiral of Plasma" (Interstellar Pack) by DavidKBD (davidkbd.itch.io). Music by DavidKBD, used under the terms of the author: commercial and non-commercial use allowed, with credit.
- Fonts: JetBrains Mono by JetBrains, SIL Open Font License 1.1, and Orbitron by The League of Moveable Type, SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Sound effects generated with the gdfxr addon by Haoyu Qiu (MIT).
The original game used the font DIGITAL-7, which is free only for home use, so this version uses Orbitron for the score and the labels. Nothing else was changed.
The licence texts, including the notices of the libraries inside the Godot engine, and the source of this build are linked from this page.