A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

The year is 2009.

NASA telescopes detect an armada of alien warships approaching Earth. 

Linguists have intercepted and translated their communications.

The aliens want only one thing: human blood. 

If they aren’t stopped, and soon, the Earth will be destroyed.

The United States Earth Protectorate Special Forces sends you, Captain Max Dickman, to face this evil armada alone.

The fate of the world is in your hands Captain!

Bravely, you hop into your spaceship, the USS ThroatPunch, and kick it into high gear, into Outer Space.

It’s GO TIME!!!

But wait!! Something’s wrong with the controls. Son of a ...!


Controls

Arrow Keys - Move your ship

Space - Fire weapon

E - Shields

F - Fire special weapon

Left shift - Thrusters


Credits

Sounds from "Let's Play with Free Sound Effects" https://taira-komori.jpn.org/freesounden.html

Player and enemy sprites by Quaternius https://quaternius.com/packs/ultimatespaceships.html

Background images generated from http://wwwtyro.github.io/procedural.js/space/

Fonts:


Download

Download
Malfunction_Windows.zip 23 MB
Download
Malfunction_Mac.zip 32 MB
Download
Malfunction_Linux.tar.gz 37 MB

Install instructions

Windows Unzip game into a folder and run malfunction.exe

Mac Unzip game and run Malfunction.app

Linux Extract tarball into a folder and run malfunction.x86_64

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My high score is 269 kills. Can anyone beat it?