Gravitas

A local multiplayer cave-flyer party game.

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A local multiplayer “cave flyer” party game for one to four players, inspired by Thrust on the C64, Gravity Force on the Amiga and Star Control 2 on the PC.

  • Solo: retrieve urchins from subterranean depths, Thrust-style.
  • Head to head: two-player races around looping cave systems.
  • Up to four players: split-screen dogfights, two-vs-two football in orbit (get the moon into your team’s goal), and deep-space melees.

Your shield can “pong” bombs back at your enemies, and a grappling hook lets you grab things to use as weapons. There are 24 levels, a mini-map radar and a pumping synthwave soundtrack by Joel Steudler.

I designed and coded it for The Punk Collective, and it was released in September 2021 for Windows, macOS and Linux.