AUGUR: A Vertical Shmup, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Shooter. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
AUGUR: A Vertical Shmup, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
AUGUR is a vertical shoot 'em up for the browser in which every enemy is built from parts, and each part shows what it will fire. The first reach plays free on this page, and the full game is a paid download. It is also part of the Games Library, the paid games from our games line in one download.
What is inside 3 reaches · 5 waves each · 3 sectioned captains · 40 pixel motifs · 17,412 distinct ships in 20,000 draws · 4 music cues Four pod families, the same colour in every reach: pink is a beam with no travel time, yellow an aimed shot, cyan a slow spread, green a mine. A hull says how a ship moves, a wing how fast, a crest how tough.
What a ship looks like and what it does come from one part list, so its appearance cannot lie. Salvage: a destroyed ship drops the pods you watched it fire. Bolt one on for more firepower and a bigger target. A hit costs health and knocks a part loose. Each captain is three hulls bolted together. Shoot a section away and it loses those guns for the rest of the fight.
Reading the fleet matters: over 40 seeded runs per arm, a bot that reads pods cleared 37.5% of runs and one that ignores them 12.5%.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.