Quasar Kid

Objective

Quasar Kid is on a quest across the galaxy to meet new friends and bring them together.  Each new planet you visit is inhabited by potential alien friends.  Some of them are not very friendly though, use your rainbow thruster to fill them with joyful colors and bring them to your ship.

Controls

• d-pad/arrow-keys:  move quasar kid left and right
• x button:  use your rainbow thruster to control movement up and down
• down+x close to your ship:  launch your inventory of friends screen
  • use arrow keys to browse your collected friends list
  • press x to see details and potentially release friends into the universe to allow space for new friends
  • press z to close the inventory
• up+x close to your ship: skip the current planet and go to the next one

Features

• A gazillion procedurally generated alien friends.  Collect your favorites!
• Hundreds of different worlds to visit.
• A rainbow thruster!
• This game was inspired by a great famicart designed by @KeithAWood

Updates

• 1/17/2023 BIG UPDATE
  • a new uber extra ultra mega rare alien "color" (rainbow shiny).
    
  • planets can't be skipped until all "unknown" aliens are captured.
  • Quasar Kid is no longer indestructible, if your quasar power goes down to zero, you teleport back to the ship.
  • planets ending with 9 have a better chance at having rare aliens
• 12/29/2020:
  • Quasar Kid suit changes color when more than half of your inventory is filled with friends of the same color.
  • added some player stats to the inventory: times hit, planets visited, adventure time and number of aliens collected so far.
  • other minor fixes
• 12/16/2020:
  • New upgrade: after collecting 50 friends you can now see where all the green aliens are on the radar so you can easily ignore them (100 for blue, 200 for pink...)
  • Fixed ship launch on radar.
• 12/14/2020:
  • BIG CHANGE: now your upgrade power is based on the alien friends you have in your inventory and not on the ones you release.
  • inventory is now only accessed by getting close to your ship and pressing: down+x
  • now you can skip the planet by getting close to your ship and pressing: up+x
  • revamped inventory screen
  • inventory screen now shows the time the game is played and the number of collected aliens
  • you can also do a "galaxy jump!?" from the menu (press <enter>) to randomize the levels again and start from the beginning (without losing your collected friends)
•  10/28/2020: 
  • Added music.  
  • A new uber ultra mega rare alien color (1/1000).  
  • More sfx.
• 10/21/2020:
  •  Added a title screen and some tuning, polish and sfx.
• 10/17/2020:
  • misc bug fixes and polish