Starporter

Introduction

Be the Starporter! Where you are in charge of a landing port in space. Attempt to safely land incoming ships with no room for error - one crash and you lose!

Starporter was made for the IGU Winter Jam 2024.

Disclaimer: Much of the core art was AI-generated (ships and stations).

How-To-Play

• Use your mouse to drag lines from ships to landing pads
• Match the ship color to the landing pad color. The colors of the ships are shown by the line you draw from them, rocket fumes, and the icon as they arrive

Tips & Tricks

• You can only land one ship on a pad at a time.
• The bar in the middle of the space hub(s) shows the progress for that level. When the bar is full, the level is completed.
• If the prompt at the end of the level is declined, the game will continue endlessly until a crash occurs.
• Make life easier by queueing up landing on the same landing pad asynchronously
• If a ship arrives at a pad that they cannot land at or the line runs out, they will continue to move in that direction.
• Avoid the edges, ships can arrive from any direction at any moment!
• If a ship arrives at an edge, it will turn around.
• A small tutorial is in the main menu if you click the question mark.

Cheats

Are you stuck on a level? You can skip it by pressing "k" on your keyboard. Then go back to the main menu and press continue.

Known bugs & issues

• Balancing issues are present in the last level, it is way too difficult.
• Some UI elements may be broken and need to be fixed.

...Will add more as feedback arrives

My Plan for the Future

I plan on continuing this game and furthering the development of it. Eventually, Starporter will be available primarily on iOS and Android devices through the app store.

With the full release, Starporter will have a plethora of new features and quality-of-life additions. If you are interested in the future development of Starporter, please let me know! Any feedback on this game would be greatly appreciated as this is the first game I put a major workload into.

Special thanks 

Music and SFX artists from Uppbeat:

Adi Goldstein

Anuch

Daniel Zambo

Subsonic Voodoo

Vens Admas