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Gunstorm Released

Thunderstorms are rising! Our latest game, the space shooter Gunstorm is released today.

Gunstorm is a rotary, arena space-shooter that (by default) uses mouse left/right movements to rotate your ship, giving your craft huge manoeuvrability. You can also play with a 'follow the cursor' mouse mode, or using an X-Box 360 style game controller, or the keyboard if you prefer.

The plot is simple. Xodar of Gorn, in his vast battle-station, challenges you to 100 levels of alien craft. Each level has more enemies which appear faster. Each enemy reacts and moves in a different way. There are different level types too, from a level like arcade classic Asteroids where rocks are blasted into smaller and smaller chunks, to levels with static gun turrets, motherships and end-of-level guardians, and more surprises to discover.

You can choose a fixed or random level layout, and set the game speed, to make it as easy or as hard as you want. As well as the normal game you can choose to play stand-alone Asteroids, or the 'Onslaught' game featuring one huge level of different enemies. Gunstorm features games continues, automatically saves progress and settings in Steam Cloud, and awards a Steam Achievement if you defeat Xodar.

Gunstorm includes the classic theme music 'Deflexion', plus an optional remix of the 2007 Gunstorm song sung by Tor James Faulker. The Gunstorm EP (published by Cornutopia Music) includes several 1980s-style electronic pop tunes, and will be released on Steam as DLC in due course.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2787740/Gunstorm/

Enjoy battling Xodar!

Mark