Portal Connection

This is a Game Jam entry with the theme of connection.

New in this version.  4th July 2022

Control up/down reverse option (press L).
10 new songs.

Spaceship AI voice when you shoot down a turret.

Stronger radar, larger blip image for portal piece, now easy to find them.
Speed bursts.

Dome.

Skyscrapers.

Cycle through LUTs (colour themes).

Enjoy the flight. 

WASD and mouse buttons for firing. (secondary missile is hit and miss, buggy, sorry)

L to toggle/reverse up/down controls
V for toggling views, but outside view you can't see radar..

SHIFT for boosts of speed.
Up/down cycle through different colour look up tables(LUTs).

6,7,8,9 I think has some other LUTs(colours). 
ESC to quit.

Radar has large blobs for the portal pieces, small for the turrets. Forward facing radar.
There are a couple of 'dead' (can't pick up) portal pieces, remnants of dev work!

Z key is a cheat key if you don't want to find the portal pieces!

There's no REAL ending, yet!

Things to do:

Find 5 portal pieces, fly through portal to 'end' the game.

Fly through tunnels.

Check out the moving cranes.

Shoot the dome walls.

Fly into the dome wall.

Do some fancy flying around the city buildings.

About:

In a nutshell, sci-fi theme, you are  'traveler 27', a special class of being,  in a future world. A traveler must only stay in a world for a limited time, cursed if you like, to continually travel between worlds to survive, a continual connection between worlds is a thin connection to life. 

This period of life begins in their 27th year (traveler years), and  must pass through 27 connection gates, or portals, with the clock ticking down before each portal closes. Passing through a portal takes them to a new place. Failure to pass through it  in time means instant death, or worse, stuck in the same world, eternally.  Passing through 27 successfully would grant them life. Missing the portal by a short distance (27 traveler units if the truth be known) may cause great instability and unknown consequences to the portal, the area around the portal, or even the world therein. Seeing a connection here perhaps? Yes, there is a connection, a cosmic connection, between the number 27, and travelers.  I've noticed the prevalence of this number in my life for a while now.    

Unfortunately, these ancient portals are often in disrepair, and parts may be scattered about, or have been taken, or worse,  sabotaged. You will need to find them, using your portal radar equipped in your ship. Once you find them they will automatically return to the portal, using your magical traveler powers.

Be careful, in each world there are enemies of the travelers.  A fierce, passed down through generations, rivalry, lasting a millennium, ready to prevent you from leaving this world, ridding the galaxies of all travelers, is what every world has planned for. Nobody remembers why.  Perhaps, the answer lies somewhere above with portal instability, threatening worlds.

There was a blind prophet, from a mere century ago, who had forewarned, what he had seen in his dreams, that if enough travelers, had coexisted in one moment in time during their travel phases, in enough worlds, then they would be granted super powers, and eternal life. Naturally, this has led to fear of travelers. Is it all a myth, a wonderful story?

This program only contains the first level and only some of the ideas I plan to add in the future.