Get Past It!

GET PAST IT!

The corridor never ends. Your job is to get past everything in it.

Get Past It! is a side-scrolling shooter drawn in glowing vector lines, built to feel like a lost arcade cabinet from the early 80s. Fly a small ship through twenty levels of asteroids, wreckage, mines and raiders, break through the sentry that blocks each level halfway, and face the guardian waiting at the end.

WHAT'S IN THE CORRIDOR

- Asteroids that split when shot, and tumbling wreckage that sometimes hides a power capsule.

- Mines that cannot be shot. They flash, they beep, they explode. Be somewhere else.

- Raiders that arrive behind a siren, take aim and open fire.

- A shielded sentry and its escorts halfway through every level.

- A shielded guardian at the end, with rapid lasers, a full-width beam and a heavy energy pulse every five seconds.

SHIELDS CUT BOTH WAYS

While a sentry's or guardian's shield is up, your shots wear it down, but they bounce off and come back at you. The harder you fire, the more of your own shots you have to dodge.

THE PHOTONIC MISSILE

Lasers alone cannot finish a guardian. Wear it down until it turns critical, then line up and fire a photonic missile. You get two per guardian. Miss with both and the guardian answers with a strike you cannot dodge, and the game is over however many ships you had left.

FEATURES

- Twenty levels, each longer and harder than the last.

- Three ships, three shields each, three smart bombs per level.

- Four levels of weapon power.

- Six guardian hull designs, chosen at random every time, with visible battle damage.

- Hyperspace jump into every level.

- Top-ten high score table with name entry.

- Keyboard or joypad.

- Synthesised arcade sound effects, spoken warnings and a full soundtrack.

- In-game information pages: press I on the title screen.

CONTROLS

Keyboard: Arrows or WASD to fly, Space to fire, B for a smart bomb, X for the photonic missile, P to pause, M to mute, F11 for full screen.

Joypad: Stick or d-pad to fly, A to fire, B for a smart bomb, Y for the photonic missile, Start to pause.

HOW TO PLAY

Play in your browser on this page, or download the Windows version. The Windows download is a single file with nothing to install. Windows may show an "unrecognised app" warning the first time, because the game is not signed: choose "More info", then "Run anyway".

CREDITS

Game concept and design direction: Simon Aylett

Programming: written with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Music: generated with Suno

Voice warnings: recorded by Simon Aylett