Background story:

Lost at sea on a strange alien planet called Earth, your goal is to return to your home planet Circanoid in a galaxy far, far away. Fight your way through a number of challenging levels and ultimately defeat the ancient Guardian lurking in the depths of space.

About the game:

Unlike traditional games in the Breakout genre, your paddle moves in a circle rather than left and right, making for an interesting challenge. Later levels contain enemies that will either disrupt your ball's path or will fire weapons at your paddle. Circanoid appeals to all age groups and is fun in both 1 player and cooperative 2 player mode. While the game area is 2D, the background is 3D-animated with old-school parallax-scrolling. For Linux, Windows and Mac and downloadable from December 16, 2022.

Technical details:

Developed on Linux in Rust using SDL2 for graphics, sound and input handling. Development tools: Gimp, Audacity, Emacs. Cross-compilation to Mac was done with osxcross.