🚀 STRANGE SPACE: SECTOR-9

"Stability is a luxury. Survival is a choice."

Welcome to Sector-9, an unstable industrial outpost drifting in deep space. You are a Specialized Stabilizer Astronaut tasked with a high-stakes mission: harvest enough power to fulfill market demands while keeping a decaying reactor from a catastrophic meltdown.

In this world, the very floor beneath your feet cannot be trusted. As the reactor's stability fluctuates, gravity shifts and the facility itself begins to tear apart.

🕹️ CORE GAMEPLAY

You must balance risk and reward. Will you play it safe to keep the facility stable, or will you push the reactor to its limits to harvest more energy?

• GREEN REACTORS: Your lifeline. Spend your hard-earned power to cool the system and restore stability.
• RED REACTORS: High risk. They decay stability rapidly but spew out high-value Energy Cores that you must collect.
• YELLOW CORES: Pure chaos. They offer massive power boosts but trigger unpredictable facility sabotages.
• THE MARKET: Use the terminal to upgrade your Jetpack and Thrusters. You'll need every bit of speed to survive.

🛠️ FEATURES

• Dynamic Instability System: As stability drops, platforms shake, jitter, and gravity zones shift, changing how you move.
• Procedural Facility Architecture: No two runs are the same as the station constantly rearranges itself.
• High-Octane Movement: Master the Jetpack to navigate through zero-gravity pockets and crumbling platforms.
• Retro Sci-Fi Aesthetics: Immersive pixel art with a deep-space atmosphere.

⌨️ CONTROLS

• Move: [A] [D] or Arrow Keys
• Jump / Jetpack: [Space] (Hold to fly)
• Interact / Hammer: [E]
• Dash: [Shift]
• Menu/Pause: [Esc]

💎 DEV NOTES

Created for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.1. Strange Space focuses on the tension between greed and safety. How long can you survive the chaos of Sector-9?