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Summary
Stardust is an HTML5 side-scrolling space shooter with keyboard controls, multiple enemy types, and a boss that appears every 500 points. Difficulty increases as players level up, with faster enemies, higher fire rates, and tougher bosses.
The game also includes a flame powerup that enlarges the ship and replaces normal lasers with a short-lived flamethrower. The post ends by inviting readers to guess how the game was made.
Intro
Stardust is a simple game developed in HTML 5 - a side shooter in cosmos.
How to play:
- Move: Arrow keys or WASD, Mobile: Joystick
- Shoot: Space bar or Z (dual lasers!), Mobile: Fire Button
- Pause: P key or the pause button
Enemy types:
- Scouts - fast, shoot single shots
- Tanks - tough 3-HP enemies with spread fire
- Zigzaggers - weave unpredictably
- Boss - appears every 500 points, fires 3-way aimed shots
The game gets harder as you level up — enemy speed, fire rate, and boss HP all scale. Good luck!
Powerups
🔥 Flame powerup - glowing orange orbs drop from destroyed enemies (25–30% chance). Grab one and:
- Your ship grows 70% larger and turns a fiery orange
- Normal lasers are replaced by a continuous flamethrower — hold space to spray fire
- Flame particles deal damage to anything they touch
- An orange progress bar shows how much burn time you have left (~6 seconds)
- When it runs out, you shrink back to normal
The flamethrower is especially devastating on bunched-up enemies and bosses - just get close and hold the trigger!
Game
Can you guess how I made the game? 🙂
