Sable is a frantic 3d space shooter inspired by games such as After Burner and Space Harrier. You pilot a ship through an obstacle-laden landscape and attack or evade swarms of enemies.
The game itself is quite easy to play. The arrow keys move your ship, and the space bar fires your cannons. Holding down the space bar produces a rapid-fire effect. Avoid enemy craft, enemy shots, and the pylons. Pylons are destroyable but require concentrated fire to destroy.
Destroying an enemy ship is worth 75 points. Destroying a pylon is worth 200. Evading a pylon is worth 25 points.
Pressing P will pause the game. The R key toggles the "pylon radar" display which can be used to help navigate dense pylon fields.
1.0 was released March 14th, 2006. A Windows installer is available, as is a source tarball that builds on Linux and (with slight modifications - see the README) on BSD.
The Mac build is still under development; if it doesn't work for you, check back later and see what we have to say about it.
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 | The main menu |
 | Gameplay. |