Survival

This update brings with it the new Survival mode modifier. It changes the whole strategy. Every damage to a ship is a damage that will stay until repaired. How far will you make it? Every 10k points, a random broken system is repaired. If there are no broken systems, 5k bonus points are awarded (immediately bringing you halfway to the next repair/bonus). But when damages start to add up, it also gets harder to complete the levels without taking even more damage. And oh, did I forget to mention? In survival, you don't have any spare ships. The two you start with are the only two you get. If anyone actually manages to complete the whole game in survival mode, I will be thoroughly impressed. When playing a Single Level and using the Survival Mode modifier, it's almost the same as usual, except that ships don't get repaired when respawning after exploding. If you reset the level by blowing up both ships, they will be repaired. Everything will be reset. But if you have for example already gotten one ship into a hard to reach position, and now need to get the other ship into another hard to reach place, if you damage the ship, it will keep its damages even if you blow it up to try again. But really, let's face it, survival mode is intended for Arcade Run. And with Style Points active, you get a little extra points that make it a little easier. Just don't fall for the temptation to do that unnecessary 360 and crash!

Changes:

Survival mode modifier added - Ships keep damages between levels. Every 10k pts, one random broken system is repaired. 5k bonus if no system is damaged. In single level play, reset level by blowing up both ships to get ships repaired. If only one ship explodes, it keeps damages.
Fixed highscore server connectivity issues. Any scores that were saved locally while server was unreachable, should now upload correctly once connection is back.
Some minor bug fixes

[ 2023-11-15 22:21:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

GravitreX started as a contender in the Swedish Game Awards Warm-up competition "80's Warm-up", which had 80's as its theme. GravitreX won that competition, and was later ported to Android. After a few years on Android, it was then turned into an arcade cabinet. Two or three cabinets still exist today, in different barcades in the Phoenix Arizona region. It has now come time to complete the circle and port it back to PC and steam.

This 2D physics simulation has you trying to land two ships on their respective platform. Like the old classic Lunar Lander, but much more difficult and more heavily physics based.

Two ships to land, even in singleplayer
Ships are equipped with a grabber which can be used to lift boxes or other ships
Ships have lots of systems that can be damaged
When damaged, a classic synthetic voice will say what systems are damaged
The voice warnings can be acknowledged (muted) by pressing a button
As this is the Arcade version, every play you will start on level one with three ships
Extra ships are awarded every 30k points
35 levels of increasing difficulty. We are not kidding on this one.
Can be set to accept coins (mame style)
Steam achievements
Classic arcade style highscore with initials, but with entries from your friends as well

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04
Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 2000 MB RAM
Memory: 2000 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 100 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Might run on lower specs. not tested

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