void-reavers

Void Reavers

A single-file space shooter: one HTML page with a canvas and synthesized Web Audio. It has no build step, no dependencies and no sound files.

Play

Online: https://mjweiss1936-design.github.io/void-reavers/void-reavers.html

Or open void-reavers.html in a browser.

The campaign

Your cutter has no shields, so one hit destroys it. You then eject in a space suit with a single thruster, no brakes and 60 seconds of air, and must fly back to the station for a new cutter. If you’re hit or run out of air on the way, the run is over.

There are four sectors. In the first three you defend a station from Reaver packs, stop beacon jobs before their 45-second fuse runs out, and fight off the clan flagship. The fourth sector, the Cradle, has no station: you survive three hordes and then face the flagship’s last stand.

On a phone

Touch screens get a touch mode, played in landscape:

• Left thumb: touch anywhere on the left half and drag. A small push turns the cutter to aim, and a big push burns the engine that way.
• Right thumb: hold LASER or MISSILE to fire. BRAKE fires the retro thrusters and MAP opens the sector map.
• Cutscenes: tap to move the dialogue on.

Holding the phone upright pauses the game and asks you to turn it sideways. On iPhone, Share → Add to Home Screen plays it full screen. Sound needs the silent switch off.

Add ?touch to the address to try touch mode with a mouse.

Test keys

• B skips ahead. It finishes the sector’s packs, or drops the flagship to its last hit.
• F calls in a 45-ship fleet.
• Esc skips cutscenes.