PixelShips is a horizontal scrolling shooter game developed by Kris Asick for the Windows platform. In it, players start out with one PixelShip (a small toy loosely resembling a fighter plane) and complete a variety of missions, their ultimate task being to collect all 160 known PixelShips and a secret one. Starting Out Campaigns Collecting Ships Upgrading: While flying in a mission, destroying enemy droids, ships and collecting star power-ups will grant the ship you are piloting experience points. Once enough of these points have been collected, "Upgrade!" will flash in the lower-left corner of your flying area. After the mission has finished, highlighting your ship will yield a button with an up arrow and UG, for upgrade. Click this button to improve your ship. If you haven't collected enough experience to upgrade your ship by the end of the mission, highlighting your ship will reveal a fuzzy red/black/white box. The more white in the static of the box, the more experience and the closer you are to an upgrade. The more black in the static of the box, the less experience and further away you are from an upgrade. Some ships cannot be upgraded, and will show a red X after being [ - ]

PixelShips is a horizontal scrolling shooter game developed by Kris Asick for the Windows... [ + ]