Operius

## About

'Operius' is an offline game for Opera GX, created by Mors for the Opera GX game jam in only 10 days. The game can be accessed by having no internet connection when connecting to a website, by typing 'chrome://operius' in the address bar of Opera GX, or from the GX Games site. The game is currently on the version 1.1.3 .

### Release date

October 21, 2021

*"On June 19th, 20XX at precisely 4:32 PM, all computers on earth lost their connections to the internet. A large unidentified flying object was spotted at the same time, causing further panic. It is up to you to destroy the UFO as much as possible, and regain access to the internet for the whole world."* - In game story

### **Soundtrack**

The soundtrack is done by Catonator. The game has 2 soundtracks - 'Policity' and 'Operus'. Both of them can be listened to on Spotify as well as Youtube.

### **Gameplay**

You control an arrow/pointer that is flying through an UFO. Your task is to get as far as you possibly can by travelling through polygonal tunnels which vary in each stage(known a sector). Going through a gateway (it's just a hexagon) advances you to the next upgrade level, to a limit of of 4 levels. These levels can be seen from a bar at the top of the screen. These upgrades either increase the number of bullets you fire constantly, increase the rate of fire, or/and the spacing between the bullets (Note: An upgrade can also decrease one of these stats in turn.) . Each upgrade is temporary, so if you miss a gateway you will downgrade to the previous upgrade level(unless your upgrade level is already at 0). If you are at the fourth and final upgrade, and go through a gateway, you complete the sector, and the game continues to the next sector. The game has a variety of enemies/obstacles, themes, tunnel patterns and bosses that you will have to avoid or shoot at in order to survive. Running into a projectile, enemy, or wall will destroy your arrow, and then it's game over(unless you have a shield).

## Modes

### **Arcade Mode**

'Arcade Mode' is the classic version of the game. It is designed to look like something that would appear on a retro arcade, but in a more modern and futuristic style. This gamemode potentially has infinite amount of sectors to complete, and the sectors always vary, either in their tunnel pattern(either straight, warped or twisted), enemy/obstacle distribution, and themes (Note: There are 32 themes, and from sector 33 onwards, these themes will just cycle around. You can find these themes and their names in the theme setting in 'Options'.) .

### **Co-op Mode**

'Co-op Mode' is a 2-player gamemode, almost identical to Arcade Mode, which adds a second, differently coloured arrow for the other player to use. This is done locally on the same device, where one player uses the left and right arrow keys, and another player uses the A and D letter keys. Upgrades apply to both players whenever one of the two goes through a gateway, and so does progressing between sectors. If one player dies, the other player still plays until they die as well; and when both players are dead, it's game over.

### **Endless Mode**

'Endless Mode' randomly selects a sector, which the player will play on endlessly. This gamemode's score system is not based on points that you earn as you play, like Arcade and Co-op Mode, but instead keeps track of the time you spent while being alive, and sets that as your score.

### **High Scores**

'High Scores' contains the high scores for Arcade Mode, Co-op Mode and Endless Mode. It shows the name of the player, their high score, the starting sector, and the ending sector (Note: Endless Mode only keeps tracks of the chain of levels you went through.) .

### **Options**

'Options' contains several settings, such as the music and sound percentages, the difficulty(either Easy, Normal, Hard or Insane), the theme(either Automatic, or the theme of any one of your completed sectors). It also has a colourblind mode and a frame limit parameter.

## Trivia & Tips

* Sector 33 is considered to be one of the hardest sectors by the community due to the fact that the sectors has multiple bosses.
* 'DiamondGaming' currently holds a Record for going the furthest in sectors (currently he's on sector 54, at least from what we know.)
* The game was made in Game Maker Studio 2.
* The game can also be accessed by typing 'about:operius' in the search bar of Opera GX, as well as in itch.io .
* This game does not require you to use a mouse/touchpad at all.
* Although never mentioned in-game, you can pause the game simply by pressing the Enter/Return key. From there, you can press Enter/Return again to unpause, or press R to automatically game over. From there, you can either retry from where you started, or exit to the main menu.
* In Arcade or Co-op Mode, you can choose which sector to start from, but you can only choose the sectors you've completed. This save system is convenient for people who don't want to start over.
* The theme of the main menu also changes depending on the theme of the sector (unless you set the game to a specific theme only).