Wonky Ship is a free-to-play mobile game developed by Kiz Studios. You play as an intergalactic pilot near the edge of a black hole, and must dodge asteroids, remain within the screen, and score points by doing flips.
The game has sixteen ships to pilot, but only the Wnk-y Shippienote is playable from the start. Your scores are converted into coins that you can spend to buy powerups and ships.
You can download the game on the App Store
. The game has also been ported to Steam.
Wonky Ship provides examples of:
- Artistic License – Space: "Dark matter" is mentioned on occasion, but black holes are just ordinary matter that is nigh-infinitely condensed.
- Asteroid Thicket: Downplayed. Every few seconds, an asteroid falls downward. As the game drags on, they appear at a faster rate.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Real money can be spent to multiply the number of coins earned in gameplay.
- Cool Chair: The cockpit of the Comf-O-Rest Maverick is a comfortable couch (with an astronaut sitting in it) attacted to the top of the ship.
- Endless Game: Each game can theoretically go on forever if you don't crash your ship.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: Upon game over, your ship instantly blows up.
- Evolving Title Screen: Obtaining the Scrub-in-a-Box unlocks a new version of one of the two splash screens, with the Star Trek characters' heads being cat heads.
- Fragile Speedster: "Speedy" ships fly around quickly, are small enough to weave around asteroids, and spin at high rates. However, they are lighweight and more difficult to control.
- A Good Name for a Rock Band: Certain things, such as the game's name, can be mentioned as good band names.
- Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress: Your current momentum is the main danger of getting close to obstacles.
- Interface Screw: The black hole distorts your view of the area near it.
- Mighty Glacier: "Controlled" ships are heavy and have high stability, but they can be rather large, and they can't spin quickly or fly at high speeds.
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: Contact with the black hole, the boundaries of the arena, or any asteroid while having no shields will destroy your ship instantly.
- Skewed Priorities: Some of the pilot's quotes depict them focusing on things like text messaging and radio music, as opposed to delaying their death.
- Space Friction: Your ship behaves as if it is affected by air resistance.
- Space Is Air: Inverted with how the ship rotates when steered.
- Sucking-In Lines: These appear in spite of the game being set in outer space... and they move straight downwards, sometimes passing the black hole entirely.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Certain pilot quotes lament the impending doom that is faced.
- Three-Stat System: "Speed", "Stability", and "Spin".
- Unrealistic Black Hole: One at the bottom of the screen is the driving force behind all the danger present.
