Starship Scarwolf

Starship Scarwolf is a old-school 2D top-down omnidirectional shooter (shoot 'em up).

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Features:

• This game has 2 game modes:
• Campaign Mode allows you to clear stages with individual scenarios, supporting ship switching, customise equipment, and progress saving to the savedata file. When resuming, you can continue the game from the beginning of the saved stage.
• Survival Mode is an arcade-like mode where you must continuously destroy asteroids to protect your allies. You can advance to the next Wave at fixed time intervals. While equipment changes are not possible, you can gradually enhance your ship by collecting items. Although progress cannot be saved in this mode, you can save data to add the money earned during gameplay to your Campaign mode credits.
• Supports keyboard and XInput gamepad controls. DirectInput gamepads and mouse are not supported.
• 3 difficulty levels and New Game+ mode (Campaign Mode only)
• Detailed option settings (BGM volume can be changed, SFX can only be toggled on/off)
• Data save function

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Controls:

Here are the main key operations used during gameplay. Note that key configurations can be changed except for directional controls (it is recommended to keep the Fire button at its default setting).

• Left Analog Key/D-pad: Directional controls (2 types of settings are available, with 8-directional and left-right operations. Both types involve gradually turning in the direction of operation)
• Fire1-4: Weapon usage (In Campaign Mode, weapons can be arbitrarily assigned to each ship. Multiple weapons can be assigned to a single button)
• Boost: Ship speed acceleration
• Brake: Ship speed deceleration
• Stat: Toggle display of information panel on the right side of the screen
• Radar: Toggle radar display in the bottom right (change magnification, hide, radar performance depends on equipment)
• Pause: Enter pause screen during gameplay

The manual provides details on game settings & key configurations. The manual is available online, please refer to the link in the right pane.

For explanation of the game system & how to play,  please refer to the link below. Official site (en) / Official site (ja)

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Note:

As this game runs single-threaded, CPU performance is very important. If you have your Windows power plan set to "Power Saver", request that you change it to "Balanced" or "High Performance" mode. You can make this change during gameplay without issues. 

Full-screen mode is more stable than windowed mode in drawing.

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日本語話者の皆さんへ:

申し訳ありませんが、作者が日本人であるにも関わらず、諸事情により本ゲームは(も)テキストの多言語対応ができておりません。お詫びといいますか、サポートがわりに本編テキスト(各ステージの概要、クリア条件・失敗条件、ブリーフィング・デブリーフィング部分)の日本語対訳集をご用意しました(Webにて公開し、そのページのURLをテキストで添付)。インストールフォルダの中にある「for_japanese_speakers.txt」を御覧ください。

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System Requirements:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: 64bit Windows 10 or later
  
• Processor: 64bit Intel compatible CPU
  
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
  
• Storage: 300 MB available space

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EULA:

English / Japanese

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Install:

1. Unzip the game file in the folder you want to place. 
2. Check that the folder is made. You can change the folder name as you like.
3. Complete.

Uninstall:

1. Delete this game folder from your computer.
   This game does not use the registry.
2. Complete.

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OST:

OST not included in this game, OST sold separately. Please see below.
https://nkmr-aw.itch.io/starship-scarwolf-ost

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Differences between Steam version & itch.io version:

• Steam version supports Steam achievements & Steam cloud.
• itch.io version is DRM free, and you can play the game completely offline.

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Bug Report Form:

A log file may be created in events of an error. I have set up a form so that you can submit its contents of logs. You may report it from the form or in this thread.

https://forms.gle/yywegXWg7a4CRLDK9 (@Google Forms)

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AI generated contents disclosure:

I use AI and machine translation for text translations within the game and on the store page (The original text is written by a human), as well as resolving some programming processes (less than 1% of total codes), but these are followed by human review and correction of the content. I have NOT used AI for any graphics assets or BGM resources.

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