Inex · Kaico Studio

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2D SIDE-SCROLLING SHOOTER · 1–2 PLAYERS

INEX

A hostile solar system is set to destroy ours. You are going in first, alone, to clear a path so the support team can put an outpost where their boss used to be.

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[ TRAILER — 16:9 ]

SIX WORLDS ★ TWELVE STAGES ★ YOU PICK THE ORDER ★ EVERY BOSS FILLS THE SCREEN ★ SIX WORLDS ★ TWELVE STAGES ★ YOU PICK THE ORDER ★ EVERY BOSS FILLS THE SCREEN ★

THE WAY IN

Six worlds, two stages each, from the outer reaches down to the heat. You choose the order.

OUTER REACHES

THE ICE PLANET

Where you start, if you start sensibly. Cold, quiet, and the only world that lets you learn the controls.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

OUTER REACHES

THE ICE GAS GIANT

Frozen cloud layers you fly between. Half of what shoots at you is on the other side of one.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

MID SYSTEM

THE GAS GIANT

Titanic flying beasts live in the upper bands. Smaller ones detach from them and come for you separately.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

MID SYSTEM

THE WATER WORLD

Surface runs and sub-surface runs. Nothing about your aim carries between the two.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

INNER SYSTEM

THE ROCKY PLANET

Fortified ground. Turret lines dug into the rock and nowhere above them to hide.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

THE HEAT

THE SCORCHER

Closest in, and the shortest patience. Whatever lives here does not need a reason to stay.

[ STAGE 1 ]

[ STAGE 2 ]

THE CRAFT

ANTI-GRAVITY · INTERSTELLAR · SPECIAL OPS

[ SHIP — PROFILE VIEW ]

A high-end, high-performance elite spacecraft built for missions nobody else is sent on. Jet-engine shaped, anti-gravity, and far too expensive to be flying into this.

ORBITAL UPGRADE

Your support team embeds a massive power-up while you sit in orbit. You do not pick it; they decide what you will need.

POWER-UP DROIDS

AI escorts, smart enough to root out what is hiding. They break formation on their own and they are usually right.

TANDEM FLIGHT

Two craft in the same run, sharing droids and the same small piece of screen.

WHAT'S OUT THERE

Built for the world it defends. Nothing you learn on the ice helps you in the gas.

[ SPRITE ]

TITANIC FLYERS

GAS GIANT

Fill the band you are flying through. Shed smaller beasts the whole time you are working on the big one.

[ SPRITE ]

ICE MONSTERS

ICE WORLDS

Slow to start, impossible to stop once they have your line.

[ SPRITE ]

TURRET LINES

ROCKY PLANET

Dug in, overlapping, and patient. The gaps between them are the level design.

[ SPRITE ]

EXOTIC CRAFT

EVERYWHERE

Gravity guns, energy beams, attractors, projectile swarms, tactical nukes. You find out which one this is by being hit by it.

[ SPRITE ]

ATTRACTORS

DEEP SYSTEM

Do not shoot at you. Pull you somewhere that will.

THE BOSSES

ONE PER WORLD

Each one fills the screen and holds the path your support team needs. Kill it and the outpost goes in where it was standing.

[ BOSS — FULL WIDTH, 21:9 ]

GAS GIANT

THE BAND-DWELLER

Never fully on screen. You fight sections of it in sequence.

WATER WORLD

THE TIDE ENGINE

Moves the water you are flying through, then waits for you to correct.

THE SCORCHER

UNNAMED

Last one in. The outpost goes exactly where it was.

FLY IN TANDEM

Two players, one run, side by side. Droids follow whoever is closest, which is a decision the two of you will eventually have to discuss.

DEV DIARY

14 SEP

The droids decide for themselves now

They used to follow. Now they leave, find the thing shooting at you, and come back. Playtesters stopped noticing them, which is the goal.

30 AUG

World order is yours

Any of the six, any order. Difficulty is tuned per world instead of per slot, so nothing is trivial and nothing is a wall.

08 AUG

Bosses got bigger

Every one of them now exceeds the screen. Fighting a piece of something is more interesting than fighting all of it.

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SCREENSHOTS

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

ICE PLANET, FIRST RUN

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

DROIDS BREAK FORMATION

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

GAS BANDS, SOMETHING BIG

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

TURRET LINE, NO COVER

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

TANDEM, BOTH ALIVE

[ 4:3 SHOT ]

THE SCORCHER

SOUNDTRACK

One theme per world, written cold to hot.

01 · OUTER REACHES, NOTHING MOVING3:12

02 · BETWEEN THE CLOUD LAYERS2:44

03 · SOMETHING IN THE BAND4:06

04 · SURFACE AND BELOW2:58

05 · DUG IN3:21

06 · THE SCORCHER5:02

GOING IN
EVENTUALLY

No date. One message when there is a world you can fly through end to end.

you@somewhere.net

NOTIFY ME ✉

WISHLIST

CLEAR THE PATH ★ KILL THE BOSS ★ HOLD IT FOR THE OUTPOST ★ CLEAR THE PATH ★ KILL THE BOSS ★ HOLD IT FOR THE OUTPOST ★ CLEAR THE PATH ★ KILL THE BOSS ★ HOLD IT FOR THE OUTPOST ★