Game - Duck Invaders

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Duck Invaders is a tiny browser arcade game where you move a little duck ship across the bottom of the screen and shoot to carve your way through waves of neon invaders. You have up to three hearts, chunky shields in front of you, and a score counter that climbs as you clear the grid.

Controls are simple. On keyboard you move with the arrow keys or A and D and shoot with space. On phone you drag anywhere on the screen to move and tap or hold to fire so you are not stuck hunting for tiny buttons. When you die a the boss fly will fly over taunting you by before you respawn. Each wave starts with ranks of invaders that shuffle sideways, drop closer, and occasionally shoot back. Your shields soak up a few hits then crumble, changing color as they take damage. Clear the board and a boss swoops in from one side of the screen, taking several hits before it drops. When its health hits zero it falls out of the sky while flickering and throwing off particles, then kicks back up and tears away instead of actually dying. If you were missing a life it quietly restores one and flashes a bright plus one life message in the middle of the screen. When you finally run out of hearts the game flips to a game over screen with a prompt to enter your initials.

High scores are stored in the cloud and the best runs show up in the Top Ducks list sitting beside the game window. That means you are not just chasing your own score, you are trying to park your three letter tag on a tiny public leaderboard and keep it there.