You're in charge of a ring ship, and get stuck on a space station with no fuel. The portal out is only stable enough for one ship to escape  - so gather enough fuel back to your rocket before the other one escapes!

This game features a 3-layer deep state machine for the AI ring ship - you can see the higher levels of the state machines in the AI Test debug level (top left from the title screen). You can still control the player ship in this test level - only the camera follows the AI (not that there's a way to win).

Controls:

Can use Controller or Keyboard. Best to play the tutorial to get an idea of how to play before moving to the main game.

There's a bug with analogue sticks - they don't accelerate as fast! Not always a bad thing if you're going around tight corners though.

Command	Keyboard	Controller (Xbox)	Controller (PS)
Movement	WASD	Left Analogue Stick / D-PAD	Left Analogue Stick / D-PAD
Brake/Stabilise	Shift	LB	L1
Aim	IJKL	Right Analogue Stick	Right Analogue Stick
Fire Ball	Space	RB	R1
Startup/Shutdown Engines	Q	Y	Triangle
Pickup/Dropoff Fuel	E	A	X (Cross)
Pause	ESC (may come out of fullscreen on Web version)	Start (or equivalent)	Start (or equivalent)

Author Notes:

Most of the work went into building out the AI state machines, there are still a few bugs left but it should be relatively stable at this point. Hopefully the game isn't too easy/hard.

Some of the UI isn't as well integrated - I didn't have time to theme everything in the end. Didn't help that the title screen broke 30 minutes before submission time!

Still - I'm proud I didn't just go for another platformer (see Trair the Squire and Lumennati - my previous two Vimjam games) and decided to try something very different. Although still stuck in 2D!

Soundtrack:

Juhani Junkala's Soundtracks: 4-chiptunes-adventure and 5-chiptunes-action. The name of the song appears in the bottom right when it starts playing.

Other Credits:

Thanks to Edson and Dridex for game testing.