Controls 🎮

• Arrow Keys to move your ship
• X to shoot
• Z to shoot powerful MELONS, if you have any
• If you press the play button in the browser, buttons should appear on the right side of the screen. With those you can view additional controls, mute the music, pause the game, and fullscreen!

Tips 🔎

• If you gather 10 MELONS, you can heal 1 of your ship's health!
• If you save up more MELONS (without reaching 10), your MELON shot will have more projectiles, like a shotgun!
• There are 8 waves of enemies with a final boss at the 9th wave!

Lore 📖

You are an astronaut on a mission to eliminate the waves of hostile enemies attacking! For some reason, MELONS are quite powerful in this universe. 

Credits and Dev Thoughts 🐸

Huge shoutout to Lazy Devs on Youtube for providing the amazing Shmup tutorial series that basically taught me the basics of Pico-8 (game engine). Still took me ages to figure it all out but it's made me a lot more enthusiastic about creating games. This isn't really the type of game I generally play but it's cool. Hopefully this first game (my last game doesn't count, twas a school project), will give me the foundation I need to eventually make my dream game.

Space Melons was completed on June 26th, 2025.  Could've published this page a year ago, lol, but I didn't think it was anything amazing since most of my own additions to the tutorial game were just custom art, animations, and enemy wave formations. However, I believe it'd be cool to have all the games I'm making just be out there, for posterity's sake. Thus why Space Melon now exists!