Drone Smuggler

Drone Smuggler is a top-down space shooter in which you pilot a shadespace drone ship and aim for the highest score. You customize your data-smuggling vessel and navigate increasingly populated and dangerous routes, using its characteristics to outmaneuver, outwit or outgun enemy ships while avoiding other hazards.

Your ship

Your ship has four attributes that shape how it flies and fights:

• Speed: sets the maximum speed your ship can accelerate to. For enemy space objects, it determines their vertical speed.
• Agility: affects how quickly your ship accelerates or decelerates. For enemy objects, it factors into asteroids’ rotational velocity but does not currently affect ship mechanics. It also changes engine noise, giving higher-agility ships a distinct sound.
• Power: determines how quickly your projectiles travel and how much damage they deal to enemy space objects. It has the same effects on enemy ships, but does not currently affect asteroids.
• Hull: determines how much damage your ship and enemy space objects can take before destruction. An object is destroyed when its damage total exceeds its hull value.

Your ship is the core of the game, and you can name it each time it is destroyed. Randomly generated levels and basic ship customization provide variation between runs, while procedural upgrades and scenarios are designed to evolve with your play.

Game modes

The game includes a basic arcade mode. A career mode called Privateer Mode, with roguelite procedural upgrades and challenges, is described as planned for the full release.