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Alien Occupation!

This is a game for the Apollo GC Jam 2019. It was meant to be less than 32k but I failed. That being said it was great fun building a full game in Qbasic, a program I haven't touched since I was about 12 years old. 

The game is a bit of a Alien + Five Nights at Freddy's mashup, but in the DOS world. The entire crew of a space station has been wiped out by an aggressive alien species. Hardeep Fisher is the only survivor and it's your job to lead her to safety.

Alien Occupation is a game about balancing power usage and avoiding the alien creature, trying to find the correct items in order to escape via the emergency escape pods. 

Instructions for playing the game:

Firstly you'll need to emulate DOS in order to play this game. You can do this easily using free software called DOSBox.

  1.  Download DOSBox for free from here 
  2. Install DOSBox to your usual Programs or Programs( x86) directory. 
  3. Open the folder where you install DOSBox to and create a new folder called "games".
  4. Open DOSBox
  5. Type the following: mount c games
  6. Download my game to the games folder you just created. 
  7. Unzip Alien.zip
  8. In DOSBox type: ALIEN.EXE


StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorDan Sanderson
GenreStrategy
Tagsalien, DOS, Horror, Retro

Download

Download
ALIEN.EXE.zip 35 kB

Install instructions

Please follow these instructions carefully.

Firstly you'll need to emulate DOS in order to play this game. You can do this easily using free software called DOSBox.

  1.  Download DOSBox for free from here 
  2. Install DOSBox to your usual Programs or Programs( x86) directory. 
  3. Open the folder where you install DOSBox to and create a new folder called "games".
  4. Open DOSBox
  5. Type the following: mount c games
  6. Download my game to the games folder you just created. 
  7. Unzip Alien.zip
  8. In DOSBox type: ALIEN.EXE

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Hello,

Wow! A full game in Qbasic! I hear that QB64 can be used to compile Qbasic source code of game. As a result, DOSBox is not required for playing game. This will be more convenient for players. Perhaps you can try this method.