Fastigrades

Tardigrades, also known as moss piglets (fair enough) or water bears (why), are eight-legged microscopic animals with an unexpected ability to survive extreme conditions, including deep sea or the vacuum of space. They are expected to be able to survive global extinction events.

Needless to say, if they weren't such slow walkers, as their name means in Latin, they would definitely have replaced us at the top of the evolutionary pyramid.

Deep, deep within the tiling of an unsuspecting lab bench, a group of research-minded tardigrades are experimenting ways to alleviate their aforementioned slowness. Help them escape the lab and fly as far as possible through the inhospitable environments only their species can navigate.

How to play

• Use your mouse to navigate the menus and select your equipment.
• Left-click or Space bar to start aiming the cannon; tap again to fire
• Fly as far as you can using the Dash and Brake powers (see below) and try to reach... outer space?!

During the flight:

• Left-click or Right arrow: Dash to gain some altitude (available again after 2 seconds)
• Right-click or Left arrow: Brake (available again after 2 seconds)
• Atoms and UFOs are bumpers, reach them to bounce right up!
• Toxic waste and asteroids are normal obstacles

Note that for some reason, the music doesn't loop in the Web version - this seems to be an engine bug in Godot 4.3, as it works just fine in desktop builds.