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Alien Sky

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From the same people who created Astrobatics comes this Galaga-inspired game.

If you were to look up the word "overkill" in a picture dictionary, you would find this game's Medium Fighter enemy.

Unused Graphics#

Power-Up#

A green question mark (?) power-up. What does it mean?

Special Weapon Side Turrets#

What appear to be side turrets for the special weapons. Most of these wouldn't work in-game since most of the special weapons are fired from the middle of the ship.

Special Weapon

Left

Right

Missile

Homing Missile

Bot Launcher

Sticky Mine

Laser

Nuke

Drill

N/A

Corrosion

N/A

Chain Lightning

Green Flame

Both of the graphics for Drill and Corrosion are identical, therefore only one copy has been added.

UI#

A UI image of the player ship that was probably meant to go where the special weapon is displayed. Alien_Sky_Ship_UI.png

Unused Text#

To do:
Provide examples. Opening "Resource.tdf" in Notepad reveals these unused strings, yet they are lost in text from the game and miscellaneous characters.

The game contains some unused strings of text left over from Atomaders in different languages.