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Project Spaceship is an arcade-style game where the player controls a single blue spaceship and attempts to survive waves of enemy spacecraft. Similar to the well-known Asteroids, the player can rotate and fire their engines in a single direction, continuing to move as if in a frictionless vacuum. Enemies fly in from the edges of the screen and are introduced in increasing numbers and difficulty each level. If the player flies off the screen they reappear on the opposite side, while enemy ships will have to turn around and fly back onto the screen.

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Features

• Hull Strength and Shields. The miniature player-ships and blue arcs symbols in the top left corner represent the player-ship's hull strength and shields respectively. Shields will regenerate slowly over time if not hit by enemy fire, however hull strength can never be regained. Hull strength will not decrease until shields are disabled. The player-ship explodes if hull strength reaches zero.

• Newtonian Physics. The game follows Newton's first law of motion. Since the only force exterted on the player-ship is that of the engines, it will continue at a constant velocity until the engines are fired again. Enemy ships and all weapons-fire also follow this principle.

• Endless Levels. There are 20 unique levels of increasing difficulty. Beyond level 20 no new enemy types are introduced, however the game continues to introduce an increasing number of enemies each level for an infinite number of levels.

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