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MICROWARS
WORK IN PROGRESS. FLYING NOWEPISODE 1: THE MICRO MENACE
The Game
A space combat saga and a sci-fi satire: the machines of the micro era fly as warships, and the great space operas get an affectionate send-up. Wedge keyboards are fighters, big-box computers are motherships, and every ship's speed, guns and missiles come from its real hardware: clock speed is top speed, hardware sprites are guided missiles, RAM is the fuel tank.
Fly with a wingman squadron, order the fleet, land in your carrier's hangar, and take the fight INSIDE enemy motherships, in through whatever aperture the hull really has: an arcade cabinet's coin slot, a disk drive, a tape deck, down the service corridors, past the gun turrets, to the shielded reactor at the core.
No installer, no launcher, no download manager. A browser is the system requirement. MicroWars is a work in progress, flying in public while it is built, so expect new builds often and rough edges sometimes.
Play in your browserCredits
MicroWars is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
Developed by Leo Nigro.
Temporary music by Gustav Holst. The Planets, performed by The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band. Public Domain.
3D models via Sketchfab: “Atari Asteroids Arcade Machine” by Big Jojo; “Commodore 64” by dark_igorek; “Commodore PET 2001” by denisstephane; “Atari 400” by nedo; “Atari Joystick” by Antony; “Atari 2600” by VM-Models; “Commodore Amiga 500”, “Apple II” and “ZX Spectrum 128K” by dark_igorek; “Commodore_ Amiga_500__ Computer” by gaganramatjaggutaliwal; “Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2” by AndreuMartiBas; “Atari 2600” by linus1178; “Arcade Machine” by barism09; “Commodore 1541 Disk Drive” by Berk Gedik; “Retro console Amiga CD32” by Zgon; “Cyber Djinn” by dark_igorek (CC-BY 4.0). Full model attributions.
Fleet Intelligence
- ▸ Real hardware stats drive every ship
- ▸ A shared multiplayer galaxy
- ▸ Squadron orders and fleet doctrine
- ▸ Carrier boarding and reactor runs
- ▸ Capital broadside battles
- ▸ A galaxy map of software-era sectors
- ▸ An episode saga spanning the micro age
One Galaxy, Every Pilot
MicroWars pilots all fly THE MICRO GALAXY together: captains cross paths sector to sector, and when a pilot ejects, adrift in a cartridge escape pod, it may be another player's ship that flies the rescue. Open the star charts »
Next Transmissions
Further episodes of the saga are in the shipyards, and new titles for various retro platforms are on the drawing board. They will take their places on this flight line as they launch. Watch the dev log for launch signals.