Meet the literal space shooter. Instead of shooting bullets or lasers, your ship shoots "space" (i.e. blocks) that your enemies collide into. But watch out: You can end up running into your own blocks too!

There are three levels and bosses to fight against.

Qualdrin includes several accessibility features. These include:

Remappable/adjustable controls for keyboards
Ability to navigate menus and play only using the keyboard
Game speed adjuster to make the game go up to 50% slower
Option to give yourself more lives
High contrast graphics and text
Option to remove the Bottom Feeder stage hazard to adjust difficulty

Learn why accessibility is important in gaming by going to http://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/why-and-how/.

Background music by Jordan Peloquin: https://jwesternskies.itch.io

More information

Status	Canceled
Platforms	HTML5
Author	Gerald
Genre	Shooter
Made with	Construct, Piskel
Tags	2D, 8-Bit, Aliens, Arcade, Retro, Space, space-shooter, Sprites
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Xbox controller
Accessibility	Color-blind friendly, Configurable controls
Links	Homepage

Development log

4.0 patch notes
Jul 27, 2019
3.2 patch notes
Mar 25, 2019
3.1 patch notes
Aug 01, 2018
3.0.10 patch notes
Jun 18, 2018
3.0.9 patch notes
May 23, 2018
3.0.8 patch notes
Apr 23, 2018
3.0.7 patch notes
Apr 12, 2018
3.0.6 patch notes
Mar 22, 2018

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Comments

Conflex Games87 days ago(+1)

A couple thoughts :

- The game's premise is really creative and thought-provoking.

- There's no offline version, so hitting Esc also causes the game to go out of fullscreen mode.

- The game would've actually been more controller-friendly, if it didn't have any controller recognition at all. The controller support that's included does embrace an Xbox plug-and-play model. However, the Gamepad keybinder that's provided is not nearly as flexible as what you get with profilers like JoyToKey. Even in Keyboard Only mode, Buttons 1 and 10 still have controls imposed on them, so I think the game is too in love with the plug-and-play model.

Likewise, it's not true that the main menu *has* to be navigated with a keyboard, since you can put keyboard and mouse movements on controllers, with profilers.

Gerald86 days ago

Thanks for playing and sharing your feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed the premise.

I should be able to fix the Esc issue by changing the game to launch in fullscreen. (An offline mode for the game is something I'll still look into.)

I've heard of JoyToKey. I didn't realize it would have some weird interactions. I'll look more into it when I can find my Xbox controller 😅

Conflex Games85 days ago

If you DM me, we can go over details, without them appearing here.