You are a famed Temporal Engineer for the Intergalactic Mining Company (IMC)! As the only spaceship pilot on-board you space station, you are going to need some serious skills to defend your peers at the same time as performing the dangerous task of black hole mining.

- Your primary objective is to keep you space station safe from aliens. Build various types of turrets or lay deadly mines to make sure those pesky spacecraft don't blow up your ship.

- You should also have the IMC's best interests in mind at all times. They are looking for score, a rare substance that is mostly found my mining the cores of black holes.

- You will need to building your defenses with mining excursions to maximise your score collection.

- Watch out though! Black holes cause time dilation, meaning when you are near one, the outside world will pass much faster, letting the aliens at your base for much longer.

Aim of the Game

- High score! You get score from mining black holes, and also a small amount from beating aliens

- You can see your score in the bottom right of the screen, or on the game over screen

- The game ends when your defences fail and your base runs out of health (your base health starts at 25 and is on the side of the screen)

How To Play

- W & S for forward and backward

- A & D for turning

- Hold Ctrl to use your brakes (come to a stop)

- Press Shift to use mini-hyperspace, you can only use this when you have collected hyperspace fuel by mining a black hole (the lightning icon in the top right)

- Hold Space to mine a nearby object, you can mine asteroids (the ones with blue veins) for turret building resources, black holes for score and mini-hyperspace fuel, and white holes for shield fuel

- Build turrets with 1 (shooting turret), 2 (deflector turret), and 3 (mine)

- You get sheilds (the blue circle icon) from mining a white hole (repelling black hole), these will allow you to bounce asteroids away and take more than one hit from enemies

Turrets

- Shooting Turret: Costs 5 resources, will shoot enemies within a range

- Deflector Turret: Costs 3 resources, periodically turns on a deflection field that pushes away everything (this is useful to temporarily lock enemies in place while your other turrets shoot them)

- Mine: Costs 1 resources, does one damage to any enemy that touches it (one use, very useful to drop this if you have an enemy following you and you need to destroy it)

Time Dialation

- When you go near a black hole, you slow down relative to everything else, so enemies and enemy spawning will all speed up from your point of view

- The opposite is true for white holes

Tips

- Try to power up on shields early on, get these easily by mining the black hole to your south

- Make sure to build a strong base defense before going on an expedition to mine a black hole, otherwise you will be quickly overwhelmed

- Don't spend too much time at a black hole! Time is your enemy here, as the time dilation can quickly take you to a much later time with far more enemies

- If you are on linux, you will need to chmod +x the binary

Credits

- Made for the 34th Micro Jam (48 hr) by Jack Darlison and Josh Pattman

- We made all assets except for: Music, Sound Fx, and the Explosion sprite (all public domain)

- Built using Godot and Aseprite