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Release date TBA·Denis Evans·

Icarus, a classic side-scrolling space shoot-em-up tribute! - Thumping soundtrack, Bosses, Multiples, Power-ups, Secrets, BIG levels... ...Give the (free) work in progress / teaser demo a try!

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About Icarus

Welcome to (for now, my playable test level demo of) ICARUS! - Love letter to my favourite shoot-em-ups of the 16-bit / 32-bit era!... It's a side (and possibly 45 degree and vertically, later on) scrolling, classic shoot-em-up - a homage to the classic shoot-em-ups!... Currently early in development, but I already have a big chunk of a test level to try! Also features a SUPERB chip-inspired music track - "My Pixels Are Weapons", very kindly given permission for me for use in the game by the very talented "!Cube" on Soundcloud ...Awesome guy! - check out his stuff on there if you like the track! :D Controls are Joypad or Cursor keys - Keys are (and are re-definable!):- "Z" = Fire Shot/Missile (2 max at once each, per player / drones) "X" = Launch Bomb (2 max at once each, per player / drones) "A" = Charge Beam (or FIRE if set to auto-charge!) "C" or Left Shoulder Button = Speed DOWN (minimum 1) "V" or Right Shoulder Button = Speed UP (maximum 5) "ESC" =Restart level / exit menu.

FEATURES:-

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HUGE, vertically panning, side scrolling levels
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Superb chip/demo-inspired music track from !Cube
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Many target and alien types
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Collectibles and drones to help you in your fight
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BIG throughout-level and end-level bosses, with different attacks, difficulties and optional bonus timers / deadlines!
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Weapon and Power-Up collectables!
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Secrets! (and secret collectibles / areas / routes through a level)
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FIVE difficulty levels, and plenty of gameplay options - including an old-skool fuel depletion mode - keep it topped up!
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FIVE on-the-fly changeable ship speeds, to make traversing tighter sections easier, or for escaping a tight spot!
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Multiple speed smooooooth scrolling (with heads-up warnings on speed changes!), and dynamic zooming of the level based on the scrolling speed (think NeoGeo era!)
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Classic, immersive multiple level parallax scrolling!
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Limited, re-fillable 'reverse' (scrolling) charge, for when you've just missed a goodie and need to back-track!

Gameplay recording (work in progress) in the preview demo 'almost' works flawlessly at the moment, but need to tweak more random stuff to well, be pseudo-random, so it doesn't mess the 'playback' up... :D )

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