Gravity Panic: gravity is your shield and your weapon
Gravity Panic is a space arcade game built with HTML5 Canvas and plain JavaScript, heir to Asteroids and Sinistar. You fly a ship through a looping world of 9 screens where every planet pulls on everything that moves: you, your bullets, the asteroids and the enemies. Gravity is terrain and weapon at once: it curves shots and crashes pursuers into the planets. Nothing to install, it runs right in the browser and it is free.
How to play
- The world is 3×3 screens joined at the edges; the radar in the corner shows the whole map, fixed, so you learn to find your way.
- Planets don't kill on touch: the ship scrapes and slides along the surface. It only explodes if you thrust head-on into one. Approach with no engine and slowly and you settle into orbit; go fast and you are flung out like a comet.
- Collect the 3 guarded cores (green on the radar) to strip the boss (the red diamond) of its shield, then destroy it to clear the level. The boss sends waves non-stop.
- An enemy that crashes into a planet near you is worth ×2 and drops more upgrades: the way the game rewards playing is using the planets.
- The pulse (B) destroys what's on top of you and pushes the rest outwards; well placed, into a planet. 8 seconds cooldown.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ◄ ► / A D | TURN |
| ▲ / W | THRUST |
| ▼ / S | BRAKE |
| SPACE | FIRE |
| B | PULSE |
| P | PAUSE |
| M | SOUND |
| I | HELP |
| L | LANGUAGE |
Enemies
- DRONE — Chases you. Near a planet, gravity gets the better of it.
- KAMIKAZE — Locks its heading as it closes in: sidestep at the last moment.
- TURRET — Orbits a planet and fires bullets that curve too.
- ASTEROID — Orbits in silence. Hitting one kills.
Scoring
| Target | Points |
|---|---|
| ASTEROID | 50 |
| DRONE | 100 |
| KAMIKAZE | 180 |
| TURRET | 300 |
| BOSS | 2000 |
Gravity crash near the ship: ×2. Each core collected: 500. Each upgrade: 50.
Upgrades
Dropped by enemies when they die, mostly the ones you crash into a planet; turrets always drop one. Losing a ship costs one step of every upgrade, except the shield.
- SHIELD — Absorbs one hit, planets included
- RAPID FIRE — Fire twice as fast
- POWER — More damage to turrets and boss
- REAR GUN — Also fires backwards
- SATELLITE — An orb that fires with you
- MAGNET — Pulls in nearby upgrades
- LIFE — One more life
- ANTIGRAVITY — The ship ignores the planets
Play in your language
Gravity Panic is available in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Italian and French. Choose your language:
You are playing in English.