Starship Rubicon (tuxdb.com)

In Starship Rubicon, Earth has been casually destroyed by a mysterious race of space-faring invertebrates. You are a fighter pilot whose cryopod has been collected by a possibly-insane AI, who has placed you in the unenviable position of being humanity’s savior. Shanghaied and alone, you must gather the remaining human survivors and traverse the surprising biodiversity of deep space to find a new home.

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Key Features

Quick Gameplay - Pilot your ship in fast-paced shoot-em-up, featuring a unique approach to arcade physics and controls.
Customize Your Ship - Upgrade your ship with a Tetris-styled hangar bay as you find weapons and items on your quest.
Randomized Universe - Make your way through a diverse galaxy as you encounter interesting new lifeforms. Each play session generates a new path of enemies, allies, and items.
Casual Roguelike - When your ship blows up, that's the end of the line for that game. However, if you collect enough crystal shards by the end of a sector you can save your ship to re-launch it on another level.
A Fleet Of Ships To Play - Do you prefer fast ships for run and gun? Do you like something that takes a punch but isn't as agile? Start the game with 3 different ships and spend shards to unlock more ships with unique abilities!
Mod-friendly - Since ships and weapons are exposed in simple external .lua scripts, modding and creating your own content only requires a text editor!

The Best Gift Of All - The Starship Rubicon Demo For The Holidays

After a string of summer events showing Starship Rubicon, winter approaches, and as such comes the incredible march of the holiday sales. Starship Rubicon will join the legions of games on sale and we want to give people an extra incentive to buy the game at its super discounted rate so today we are launching a demo. If you haven’t tried Rubicon and have always wanted to this is your chance!

As everything awesome, the demo runs on PC, Mac and Linux and contains a tasty slice of the actual game: 3 playable ships and the entirety of level 2: Sol. As with most demos we keep some of the great stuff for the full meal deal but we think there is a lot here to try and it’s well worth your time.
Cheerful Ghost annoucement

[ 2015-11-25 17:12:33 CET ] [Original Post]

The Best Gift Of All - The Starship Rubicon Demo For The Holidays

After a string of summer events showing Starship Rubicon, winter approaches, and as such comes the incredible march of the holiday sales. Starship Rubicon will join the legions of games on sale and we want to give people an extra incentive to buy the game at its super discounted rate so today we are launching a demo. If you havent tried Rubicon and have always wanted to this is your chance!

As everything awesome, the demo runs on PC, Mac and Linux and contains a tasty slice of the actual game: 3 playable ships and the entirety of level 2: Sol. As with most demos we keep some of the great stuff for the full meal deal but we think there is a lot here to try and its well worth your time.
Cheerful Ghost annoucement

[ 2015-11-25 17:12:33 CET ] [Original Post]