Rickenbacker vs the Aliens
Winter Uprising
Rickenbacker vs the Aliens joins the Indie Games Winter Uprising.
Uprising on Kotaku
Indie Games Winter Uprising. is featured on Kotaku. The name Rickenbacker vs the Aliens has seemingly sparked some interest. It's pretty funny how some don't know who Eddie Rickenbacker was. One guy says "Like Fender vs the Martians", I am so going to make that game, using the guitar controller of course.

Rickenbacker vs. the Aliens

They came from beyond the stars, conquering worlds across the galaxy. Their advance teams manipulate local politics, plunging worlds into war to prepare them for conquest. On Earth they saw Germany and it's allies as the victors in a conflict, but never expected other nations of the world to rally against them. In the fall of 1918 with Germany facing defeat they joined the fray to help push the world over to their rule. In all the known galaxy, all the conquered worlds, the aliens had never expected a farm boy from Columbus Ohio to be thier greatest enemy...

Rickenbacker vs the Aliens is a cel shaded 2D shooter where you fly Eddie Rickenbacker's SPAD against a relentless enemy rendered in a 1930's movie serial style. Bomb ground targets as you defend yourself against an arial barrage, fighting your way to victory for Earth.

Gameplay Video

This is the video I submitted for the Indie Uprising Trailer

Preliminary Screens

These are some screens with the new backgrounds in place. As you can kind of see in the first screen the enemies swoop and yaw as they fly, I'll have to get some video up soon. The clouds may have to be toned down a bit yet. The large empty areas will have buildings and enemy placements, I just have not placed them yet as I changed the entire background. TO DO! The explosions the tilemaps, everything is cel shaded.

Trees and roads!


It's a firefight. Still placing ground objects


Concept Art

Rickenbacker's plane.


An alien craft.


Alien craft before I decided to go with cel shading.