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Space Menace.

Pilot an orbital ship, gather alien rockets for power and attack an alien planet without crashing. The creator designed the game for portrait orientation.

Web-nativePointer first
Open original game ↗ (opens a new tab)

Opens the project’s game host.

Space Menace project illustration
Original competition cover published with Space Menace by Bill Collins. It illustrates the project and is not a game session completed by this site. Source & credits (opens a new tab)
EXPLORE THIS COLLECTIONArcade short sessions ↗

YOUR FIRST SESSION

Your first few moves.

Jump to controls ↓
  1. 01

    On-screen orbital controls

    Operate the ship from the bottom of the screen.

  2. 02

    Alien rockets

    Collect the objects described as ship power.

  3. 03

    Portrait layout

    Use the orientation recommended by the creator.

KEEP THIS HANDY

Controls at a glance.

On-screen orbital controls
Operate the ship from the bottom of the screen.
Alien rockets
Collect the objects described as ship power.
Portrait layout
Use the orientation recommended by the creator.

How the game works

The public instructions place the orbital controls at the bottom of the screen. Find those controls before trying to balance the ship’s movement with firing.

A decision to watch

Collecting alien rockets supplies power to the ship according to the project description. The stated objective is to destroy the planet while keeping the ship from crash landing.

Try a first session

Keep the field and the control area visible together when choosing a screen size. The creator describes a portrait layout; this does not establish a successful test on a specific phone.

BEFORE YOU CLOSE THE TAB

What happens to your progress?

A portable save or mid-run resume is not established by the reviewed instructions. Check the game’s own menu before clearing its browser data.

Check the save and backup guide ↗

A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS

Before the next click.

What powers the ship?

The creator describes collecting alien rockets to supply power.

Which screen orientation did the creator recommend?

The game was designed for portrait orientation, with orbital controls at the bottom of the screen.

Follow the source.

Bill Collins. Licence notice. No code licence was identified by GitHub; consult the creator’s repository; original media rights are separate.

Latest collected source change: Update game.js (opens a new tab) . Repository activity does not identify the hosted game version.

All media and source credits ↗
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