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Schubi Action and skill game in spirit of Thrust and Space Taxi. Direct link: http://www.beppigames.de/play/schubi/index.html Games page: http://www.beppigames.de/schubi/index.html Homepage (find my other games there, for each there is a html5 version): http://www.beppigames.de PREFACE If puzzled by the first level please read "WHAT TO DO IN LEVEL 1" below. May take 30 seconds to 10 minutes to pickup and develop necessary skills. Difficulty level is nasty but easier than in the aforementioned classics. To solve all levels probably takes a week. If you happen to solve level 28, notify (the only level I failed at). MISSION Pilot your little yellow ship and load all trucks with cargo at a construction site (level) within the shift duration of 180 seconds. Cargo is picked up by flying over a dispenser (the circular object). This hooks cargo to the ship and a truck is loaded by ejecting the hooked cargo and hitting the truck with it. - 30 largely varying levels, playable in any order. - game within game principle, e.g. level 30 is a racing game. You may find some references to e.g. Asteroids, Thrust, Space Taxi and Cut The Rope in other levels. ON THE IMPLEMENTATION Wrote this as my first game in 2012. This html5 version is a mixture of transpiled javascript (emscripten) and normal javascript. No engines were used, everything was written from scratch (physics, collision detection,...). CONTROLS Keyboard only: A - turn ship left S - turn ship right K - thrust L - eject hooked cargo (keys above can be redefined in KEYS submenu) Quit a level / back in menu: B, Backspace or ESC Menu navigation and selection: Arrow keys and Return WHAT TO DO IN LEVEL 1 AND HOW TO DEVELOP THE NECESSARY BASIC SKILLS Your ship cannot cross the red white striped barrier, only cargo can. First fly around using keys A,S,K. If you got that fly over the dispenser (the green circular object). Now that the cargo is hooked to the ship fly some circles, halfcircles and watch the cargo gyrating around the ship. If you got that eject the cargo with L. Study its flying path. Pick up more cargo and practice throwing (hurling) the cargo so it reaches the trucks beyond the barrier. If you loaded all trucks, congratulations, you developed necessary skills for this game. One further useful skill to be developed is rotating the cargo to the ships nose (and keeping it there by maneuvering) so you can push it. Described in the game but overlooked: The yellow black striped areas are explosive ones. Do not touch them, neither with the ship nor drop cargo there. BROWSER REQUIREMENTS WebGL capable browser, may not work with MS Edge. There is no loading bar for the initial preloading of music. Be patient. There is also an Android version available from itch.io in a free to play bundle (see www.beppigames.de/schubi for links).