About the game

Dustership is a space western action-adventure game that takes place in the Gaucho Galaxy: where the ruins of long dead galactic empires are now the wild frontier for explorers of the current age.

This is a work in progress. My goal with this demo is to create a fun real-time combat system, inspired by games like Hyper Light Drifter and Eastward, that will form the core of the game. I am building Dustership in Godot engine, and I use Aseprite for art and animations.

The story starts with April, a retired government officer for the Ammellan administration. She was a member of the Preservers, an elite squadron of intelligence operatives who directly report to the Ammellan emperor. Those days for April are long past, and she now works as a bounty hunter who plies her trade on the outskirts of so-called civilized space.

Controls

Input prompts for Xbox controls are used in the demo. These are the keyboard and mouse controls:

  • F to interact
  • Esc to open pause menu
  • Q and E to switch pause menu screens
  • Q to switch character
  • Left click to attack
  • Shift to dodge

Links

Dustership was chosen as a finalist on Backdrop Build:
https://backdropbuild.com/builds/v4/dustership-a2ms

Demo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iAhtzoOmQ

Music by Chris Doucet: https://thedoset.com/


Follow along with the game's development at the devlog below.

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dustership-windows.zip 38 MB
Version 8

Development log

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