Thrust

Can't be bothered to read all this? Then go play the game!

Introduction

The object of this game is (at present) simply to guide your little spaceship to the exit of the level. Sounds easy enough, but the route from start to exit is rarely straightforward, and is often guarded...

Warning to parents: This game involves the concepts of "guns", "bullets" and "shooting". During the course of play, scenes depicting the dismemberment of wireframe polygons may be shown to the player. If you fear that your child(ren) may be adversely influenced by this game, then you're a pillock.

Rules

If you crash into (or touch, get hit by, attempt to land on) anything (except the exit) your fragile little ship will be blown apart.

Things fall downwards. Not up. Trust me on this.

Your shots (a.k.a. "missiles", "bullets") are not affected by gravity. This reflects the fact that in real life, the effects of gravity are insignificant when considering the path of a bullet over a short range.
Your shots are also unaffected by your ship's speed; they don't pick up any of your momentum. This reflects the fact that I am a lazy programmer.

Your ship has no top speed. The game is set in space (hence the black background), where there isn't much matter floating about (a.k.a. "atmosphere"), and hence virtually no friction. I suppose that, under the right conditions, your ship could travel faster than the speed of light. Keep your finger on the "UP" key for about an hour, and it might just happen. My money says the game'll crash before then, but you never know...

You can't shoot yourself. You may want to by the end of this, but the game won't allow it (although you can self-destruct). Even if you catch up with your own bullets (not difficulty to do), you still won't die. Am I generous or what?

Guns (the things that shoot at you) can't shoot each other, although I'm tempted to change this.

Controls

UP	Accelerate
LEFT	Turn left
RIGHT	Turn right
F	Fire
SPACE	Respawn (when dead)
X	Self-destruct
G	Turn gravity on/off. This is probably cheating.
F12	Skip to next level. This is definitely cheating.

Things

	Your ship.
	Destroyable wall. Comes in various shapes and sizes. It's said to be "destroyable" because shooting destroys it.
	Guns shoot at you if you get too close. Fortunately, you can shoot back.
	Bullets. I can't believe I just made a 1x1 .gif ...
	Home sweet home. Get your ship here in one piece, and you'll be on your way to the next level.
	It's a magic switch. Fly onto the switch to make some magic thing happen.
	An activated switch. Move on folks, nothing more to do here.

Known bugs

If the game is run on a machine which is too slow to keep up, it will hog the CPU in an effort to catch up. Most likely the game'll freeze. Of course, no sensible web browser would freeze itself as a result of this. IE5 is not a sensible web browser.

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