Stellar Bulwark

You are a small ship facing never-ending waves of enemies. Survive long enough, and a mothership will appear to deal with you. Kill enemies to increase your score, and try to get as high of a score as possible, but the waves will get harder the longer you last.

This is just a small game that started as an experiment with making black and white sprites. It takes about 5 minutes to see all of the content if you don't die, but enemies are randomly generated and increase in difficulty, so it can be played for much longer. I hope you enjoy playing.

Controls

Press SHOOT to advance through menus.

Hold SHOOT to fire, or tap rapidly to fire faster.

Any type of gamepad should work, but only the first one will be recognized.

Action:	Keyboard Controls:	Gamepad Controls:
Move	Arrow Keys,  WASD	Left Stick,  Directional Arrows
Shoot	Spacebar,  x	A,  Right Trigger
Return to menu	Esc,  f1	Start
Quit from menu	Esc	Start
Fullscreen	f,  f8	Select
Increase Scale	+,  f6	Right Shoulder Button
Decrease Scale	-,  f7	Left Shoulder Button
Cycle Mute (normal, sfx, muted)	m	Left Trigger

Credits

Made in GameMaker Studio 2.

Font:

Press Start 2P https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P. Licensed Open Font License.

Music:

"Timeworn Pagoda" from Avgvst at https://opengameart.org/content/generic-8-bit-jrpg-soundtrack. Licensed CC-BY.

"Boss Battle #2 V2" and "Boss Battle #4 V1" From Nene at https://opengameart.org/users/nene. Licensed Public Domain.

Sound effects:

Some sound effects from "The Essential Retro Video Game Sound Effects Collection" by Juhani Junkala https://juhanijunkala.com/. Licensed Public Domain.