Being offline doesn’t mean you can’t play together: Operius features an offline two player mode: all you need to do is share your keyboard with another person and enter the two player mode. Operius features razor-sharp, retro-inspired vector graphics which pay homage to the great space-based arcade shooters of the eighties with a pulsating high-adrenaline soundtrack written by Catonator. But one game, Operius, elevated itself above the rest and emerged triumphant after topping the public polls that saw eight hand-picked games garner over 100,000 votes from the Opera GX and GameMaker communities. With more than 900 entries, all created in GameMaker Studio 2, the competition was ferocious. In July, Opera GX launched its “No Internet” Game Jam to find the game that would keep its audience of more than 10 million gamers entertained whenever they lose their connection.

The only way to restore the planet’s internet is to navigate through the inner workings of the UFO and take it down from the inside, a task that involves shooting hordes of alien invaders and dodging obstacles to advance to the next level. Those with a stable connection who really want to try Operius, can simply type opera://operius in Opera GX’s address bar.ĭesigned by Mors, Operius is set in a world where all of the world’s computers simultaneously lose their connection to the internet, with a strange UFO that is hovering in the sky appearing to be the cause of the outage. The game will appear whenever your network crashes. Created in the game creation suite GameMaker Studio 2, Operius is playable in the Opera GX browser today. In those moments where the WiFi is gone, Operius will help take your mind off your frustration with its fast-paced arcade gameplay. No WiFi? No problem! Created in GameMaker Studio 2, Operius has won the Game Jam to become the Opera GX Browser’s first offline mode game and is playable starting nowĢ1 October, 2021 – Dundee, Scotland and Oslo, Norway – We’ve all experienced the unexplainable horror of having to deal with some flakey internet connections. Opera GX blasts off with Operius, the new arcade space shooter to play in the browser when your WiFi is gone

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