I've started on a new project again. Yeah, I know. I'm still getting a feel for what I am and am not capable of, but a SHMUP seems like a reasonable place to start. Reasonable, at least, compared to a 2D open-world Metroidvania action-platform-adventure-RPG featuring free-flying and hand-drawn graphics and elemental transformations and...I got a bit carried away last time, in other words. I don't have much of anything so far, so here's...this. It's a quick little control demo thing where you can play around with one of the five or so planned ships. [img]http://orig07.deviantart.net/ac1c/f/2017/001/5/8/untitled_by_soopaderpcat-datw7sc.png[/img] http://www.mediafire.com/file/7r4c3xun78mx6xv/MSB.exe [b][i]Controls:[/i][/b] WASD keys: Basic movement. Left mouse: Fire lasers (Can sort of be aimed with the mouse; will only travel 20 degrees upwards or downwards from the ship, though. You'll get what I'm saying when you try it.) Right mouse: Fire homing missiles. Well, they WILL be homing missiles once they have something to home in on. Mouse wheel up: Increase engine power. Mouse wheel down: Decrease engine power.  Shift: Gravity Aileron - A quick aileron roll (not a barrel roll) that can be used in conjunction with WASD to change directions abruptly. Ctrl: Retreat Roll - A high-speed maneuver that makes you dash in the opposite direction of the cursor. Also have some character art because honestly why not? And yes, Kiku is still technically a thing, albeit a slightly different thing. [img]http://img12.deviantart.net/efbc/i/2016/364/f/4/in_space__by_soopaderpcat-dati4tq.png[/img]

I clicked at the download link, and it was asking me to log in/register in order to access the page, which, I don't think it was really supposed to happen. I haven't really tried the demo out yet, but, by looking at what's shown in your post, it seems interesting. I like how the sprites that were in that screenshot looked, and the character designs looked neat to me (especially Dre "The Dreadnought" Krumpson's design).

Okay, I think the page that I originally linked to was just a personal file storage page. I made a new share link and put it in the OP, so try again now. Sorry, I'm still kinda getting my head around Dropbox.

SONAR.Heuristic.160 decided it wanted to hitch a ride on the file, so I can't run it at the moment.

Well, I scanned both the project folder and the exported executable file with Kaspersky Antivirus and scanned my entire computer with Malwarebytes AdwCleaner. No threats were detected by either. I decided to try uploading to Mediafire, since that seems to have an automatic virus detector. Sure enough, Mediafire said there was a virus. So I decided to start a completely different Game Maker Studio project and exported it before uploading it as a test. Mediafire said that it had a virus as well. Then I ran both of my antiviruses again and, once again, neither of them detected any threats. I'm leaning towards the idea that it might be a false positive, since Game Maker .exe files don't always get along perfectly with a lot of antivirus programs, and SONAR.Heuristic.160 is apparently not so much an identified threat as a kind of general "alert" that antiviruses apply to files with certain specific attributes, but I'll see what I can do. [b]EDIT:[/b] I replaced the Single Runtime Executable version with a version that I exported as a Windows NSIS Installer, and MediaFire accepted it fine. Try that, I guess.

A person on the Game Maker Community website has confirmed that the "virus" is in fact just a false positive and nothing more. https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/sonar-heuristic-160.16638/#post-107182 So the demo available from the link in the OP is safe and functional.