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About

Alien Agenda v1.8 Single Player - by ent 2026. The game that started it all. Dive into a fully featured Space Invaders / Galaga-style 2D shoot ’em up where survival depends on skill, precision, and adaptability. Track your progress through detailed stats including points, levels, time, accuracy and even your ammunition reserves for future runs.

Face relentless waves of alien forces with 9 unique weapons, and a bunch of special powerups that enable special abilities. This game is designed to use the mouse.

Download

You can download the single player by clicking here: alien(SINGLE).zip (225MB).

Requirements

This game was originally compiled on a 64 bit Windows 11 platform. It is unknown if it works on a 32 bit platform.

  1. Windows 11+ or Wine in Linux.
  2. Dual Core Intel or AMD equivalent.
  3. 4GB RAM.

Gameplay

Screenshots

This is the Main Menu window.

This is the Controls Menu window. Hit [F1].

This is the Settings menu. Hit [F2].

This is the in game screen.

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Contact Email

Do you have any questions? Concerns? New feature ideas? Or just want to talk? Send me an email by clicking here. Or, manually: orbitalirc@gmail.com

Contact

If you would like to chat with me on IRC, you can click here. Channel: #alienagenda on the UnderNet IRC network is the official IRC channel/network of this game. My nickname on IRC is: ent (or entropy).

History

I started development of this masterpiece at: 5:08 PM 4/21/2024

I started this from scratch from a Youtube PYGAME Space Invaders tutorial. Watch the tutorial that got me hooked on python here.

Development

Main coder: ent and ChatGPT

This game was created with pygame 2.1.3 (Python 3.11.0).

Disclaimer

Do NOT modify/remove any of the files in this archive (except client.ini). It WILL crash the game!

This game is free of any charge, and has no copyright. If any images/sounds violate a copyright, please let me know as soon as possible and i will remove them.

Instructions

In Windows 11, It says it's a Possible Unwanted Application (or PUA). Click "Allow" and run anyways to play.

Some AV programs might detect viruses in these applications. If you get a virus detection, simply white list alien.exe your AV. These are false positives, there are no viruses in these applications. They are harmless python exe's.

Also, you might wanna make frequent backups of the server.ini!

Credits

First, i would like to thank Kenneth` and Colin for some of the great ideas, beta testing and motivating me.

Also, I would like to thank voicegenerator.io for the free text to speech female announcer voice.

Also, I would like to thank 101soundboards.com for the free text to speech male announcer voice.

Also, I would like to thank maxkomusic.com for the free background MP3's.

Special Thanks

These are the people that gave me great ideas and helped beta test this game.

  1. Kenneth`
  2. Colin
  3. Derek
  4. Hammer-
  5. Alan
  6. Aura
  7. chalcedony
  8. Pyro-Rob
  9. ^^D`Jet^^
  10. Buckey

Joystick Controls

Mouse Controls

  • Mouse1: Fire
  • Mouse2: Change weapon
  • Mouse Wheel Up: Cycle weapons (up)
  • Mouse Wheel Down: Cycle weapons (down)

Menus

  • F1: Controls
  • F2: Settings
  • F3: Offline Top 10
  • F4: Your Name
  • F5: Offline Stats
  • F6: Your Ship
  • F7: About
  • F9: Credits
  • F11: Help File (This File)
  • F12: Delete Offline Stats

Weapons

1.
 The Machine Gun. The standard weapon. Unlimited ammunition (keyboard button 1).
2.
 The Laser. The second weapon (keyboard button 2).
3.
 The Grenade Launcher. The first explosive projectile weapon (keyboard button 3).
4.
 The Rocket Launcher. The second explosive projectile weapon (keyboard button 4).
5.
 The Bombs. Kills all enemies in one giant blast (keyboard button 5).
6.
 The Spread Gun. Fires 5 shots at once (keyboard button 6).
7.
 The Crescent Launcher. The largest weapon of all (keyboard button 7).
8.
 The Flame Thrower. One of the deadliest weapons of all (keyboard button 8).
9.
 The Beam. The most sinister weapon of all (keyboard button 9).

Main Powerups

The Health Item. Increases your health by 100 points. The Shields Item. Adds a second layer of protection. Increases your shields by 100 points. The Cloak Item. Makes your ship invisible to enemy ships for 30 seconds. The Invulnerability Item. Makes you omnipotent for 30 seconds.

Special Powerups

The Regeneration Item. Increases your health by 5 every 2 seconds. The Resist Item. Decreases enemy damage by 50%. The Speed Item. Increases your weapon speed by 2 times. The Maximum Damage Item. Increases your weapon damage by 3 times.

Weapon Upgrade Powerups

The Machine Upgrade Item. Upgrades your machine gun to 2 shots at once. The Laser Upgrade Item. Upgrades your laser to 2 shots at once. The Rockets Upgrade Item. Upgrades your rockets to 2 shots at once. The Flame Upgrade Item. Upgrades your flame thrower to twice the length.

Other Powerups

The Quarter Ammo Item. Adds 1/4th the maximum ammo for all weapons. The Bandolier Item. Increases the maximum ammo for all weapons. The Clone Item. Adds a second ship untill you die.