Star Impact
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Description
Star Impact is a classic style rouge-lite platformer with beautiful graphics, awesome gameplay, adventurous story, platforming mechanics, and sweet gravitational lensing/distortion effects. Play as Stella Striker, the pilot of the Interstellar space-ship Icarus II and unravel the mysteries of the galaxy. Take on an army of ancient aliens, deadly environments, and unique environmental puzzles while maintaining faced paced gameplay. Star Impact features 3 difficulties, getting insanely intense in the last difficulty to retain its replay-ability. This single player platformer is all about gameplay: Blast Stella around the map through various cannons, Donkey Kong style.
Features
- Single Player: Play the story of human Interstellar space travel.
- Controls: Control Stella Striker with only two buttons, this game is great for kids!
- Gameplay: Platforming, jumping, dashing, cannons, spikes, ancient aliens.
- Puzzles: Solve various puzzles through platforming gameplay mechanics.
- Space-time: Witness the visual power of distorting space and time.
- 80s Synth: Unlock new music tracks and set your playlist to earn boosts while playing.
Purchase
You can purchase Star Impact on Steam for $7.99 instead of $6.99 to get steam leaderboard and achievement support. The choice is yours, but either way, enjoy!
Development
Star Impact has some unique gameplay mechanics and visual effects.
- Star Impact is a two button game. Your player continuously runs forward and never stops. The player can jump and dash. You can hit power vortexes to reverse directions and cannons to navigate through the levels.
- Gravitational lensing effects that distort space and objects around it. Take a close look at the Star Impact (yellow orbs) in the screenshots. You can see it bending the space around it.
- Custom dynamic lighting that allows for hundreds of dynamic lights to be on the screen at the same time. View the first screenshot with a dynamic light attached to each floating particle.
- We are soft launching here on itch so we can polish the game and get feedback from real gamers / developers. We welcome you to be part of the process, become a Me Gamer.
Community
This is the first of many games from Me Games. Please follow us on social media or subscribe to our mailing list. We're open to feedback: good/bad and will try/do anything to make the best games we can.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.49 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Play TestingApr 11, 2019
Comments
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Awesome! Reminds me Sonic a little bit!
Thank you so much! The gameplay was inspired by Sonic, Donkey Kong, and Mario. Basically, a lot of classic games I played while growing up. I hope you enjoy it! Much love, from Me Games.