SHIBA: Space Warrior — Synthwave Shoot 'em Up

SHIBA: Space Warrior is a frantic retro-80s synthwave shoot 'em up. Shiba sets off from the asteroid belt with a single mission: fly all the way to Sirius, the Dog Star, 8.6 light-years away. Every enemy you blast boosts the warp drive and pushes you farther into space; every hit you take pulls you back.

The catch is that space gets heavier with every sector. Reaching Sirius would take days of non-stop play without dying, if it can be done at all. The real question is how far you can fly.

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The road to Sirius

Live distance odometer. The distance from Earth to Sirius updates as you play, with a real-time ETA at your current pace.
Five colossal bosses. Roughly every 7% of the journey a final boss blocks the way: Ursa Major, Void Leviathan, Hydra Prime, Gravity Titan and The Obliterator, each with three phases. Beat it and warp through hyperspace into a new sector.
Endless procedural sectors. Neon sunsets, cyber oceans, toxic nebulas, crimson voids, solar forges, ice citadels and lunar gates, with auroras, storms and meteor showers.
Space events. Solar Wind, Ion Storms, Gravity Wells, Supply Drops and golden bonus targets keep every run changing.
HYPERDRIVE. Chain explosions into chain reactions to fill the HYPER gauge, then kick in the HYPERDRIVE for double fire rate and golden piercing lasers.
A full arsenal. Combos, grazing, five weapon levels with homing missiles, plasma shields and NOVA bombs.
Shiba on comms. A portrait in the corner of the screen reacts to everything that happens, with 11 hand-crafted moods.
Cinematic camera. Boss entrances, slow-motion kills and barrel-roll hyperspace warps.
Synthwave sound. An original soundtrack, an arcade announcer and a world that pulses to the bass.

Into deep space

Destination: Sirius, the Dog Star, 8.6 light-years from Earth.

Starfighter firing a stream of golden lasers with HYPERDRIVE and KILL STREAK x50 banners, the distance odometer at the top and Shiba's comms portrait shouting Punch it! — HYPERDRIVE: double fire rate and a kill streak that pushes the odometer forward.

Boss warning with hazard stripes introducing Ursa Major, a mechanical bear with glowing red eyes, while a worried Shiba says That's a BIG one — Every boss gets a cinematic entrance. Shiba is not impressed.

The low-poly Ursa Major warship breaking apart into grey shards and red debris under a synthwave sunset — Ursa Major comes apart in a storm of low-poly shards.

Void Leviathan boss fight in a teal cyber ocean sector, with the ship dodging volleys under a huge ring and Shiba in pilot goggles saying Let's take it down! — Sector 2: the Void Leviathan in a cyber ocean.

Hydra Prime, a purple spiked boss, firing pink orbs at the shielded starfighter across a toxic green nebula sector with satellite dishes — Sector 3: Hydra Prime and a plasma shield in a toxic nebula.

Play in the browser on desktop or mobile

SHIBA: Space Warrior is free to play in the browser on desktop and mobile. It supports keyboard and mouse, touch and gamepad, with full menu navigation on a controller, and is available in English and Spanish.

Keyboard and mouse: WASD, arrow keys or drag to fly · Shift for precision · Space or right-click for a NOVA bomb · P or Esc to pause
Touch: drag anywhere, and your finger never covers the ship · NOVA button · auto-fire is always on
Gamepad: left stick to fly · A or RT for a NOVA bomb · Start to pause · D-pad, A and B in menus

Development notes

The game is built with Babylon.js, Nuxt and TypeScript, and its low-poly models were made in Blender. As disclosed on itch.io, AI tools assisted with code, graphics, sound and text: the key art, portraits, music, sound effects and voice were generated with OpenAI GPT Image and ElevenLabs and art-directed by the developer.

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