A downloadable game for Windows

You're an astronaut who upon suddenly learning about the destruction of his home station located 22 light years away loses his wits and decides to have some fun wasting precious laser beam ammo on asteroids! Do it before the inevitable end comes as the ship runs out of fuel turning internal heating off and it's time for you to embrace the overarching coldness of space...

Controls:

Changing directions - WASD
Move forward - Spacebar
Move forward with boost - Left Shift
Shoot - LMB

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Extra sound 1: Laser Overload

You can activate the "Laser Overload" by shooting more than two laser beams in a row. Once you do this, the overload sound starts loading up until its maximum state. When player stops shooting, overload fades out.

Extra sound 2: Asteroid Spawn Ambience

I thought it could be an interesting idea if game's ambience was made of distant, long, low pitched cracking sounds reminiscing of space debris hitting each other far away from spaceship. That's why I prepared 12 unique sounds which are randomly triggered every once in a while as well when asteroids spawn (10% chance), filling the game's soundscape.

List of all sounds (over 70 in total):

Ship:

1) 'Ship engine sound' (dynamic) that is on all the time and changes its intensity based on the ship's speed. 'Ship Speed' parameter controls automation of pitch (up to +1 octave), EQ (high shelf boost) and gain (up to +5dB)

2) 'Regular fire exhaust' sound which starts playing once spacebar is pressed (loop + 3 fade in + 3 fade out sounds)

3) 'Boosted fire exhaust' sound which starts playing once shift is pressed (loop + 3 fade in + 3 fade out sounds)

4) 4 high pitched + 5 low pitched 'changing direction' sounds triggered randomly when WASD keys are pressed, giving 20 sound combinations in total.

5) 16 'ship damaged' sounds split into 3 groups (strong, medium, weak) triggered based on how hard ship hits the asteroid

Shooting:

1) 5 'Shooting laser' sounds triggered randomly when LMB is pressed

2) 'Overload' which starts loading when more than 2 laser beams are shot in a row

Asteroids:

1) 7 'Asteroid damaged' 3D sounds triggered randomly each time asteroid is hit with laser beam

2) 9 'Asteroid destroyed' 3D sounds triggered randomly when asteroid is destroyed

3) 12 Asteroid spawned' background sounds that are randomly triggered all the time in the background as well as when asteroids spawn (10% chance)

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UnderStars.zip 298 MB

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