On 8 November 2011, the game was announced in a press release, with Enigma Software Productions as the developer and Kalypso Media as the publisher. Spidy must locate Virgi and collect pieces of his spacecraft in order to return to Aracnia. The story follows the Spidy, a spider from the planet Aracnia, who has crash-landed on Earth during an attempt to rescue a lady spider, Virgi. There are 69 levels in the game, and most of them take between 90 seconds and three minutes.Īlien Spidy has a minimal plot.
These orbs allow Spidy to perform feats he is otherwise incapable of, including traveling underwater and jumping to extreme heights. Players can collect special power-up orbs scattered throughout levels. In order to progress from one stage to the next, players must collect a certain number of stars. Levels are grouped into several stages, including a forest, a pond, a cave system, and outer-space. Players earn between one and five stars on each level, based on their score. Players can also lose points by dying, collecting certain orbs that decrease the player's score, or going for too long without collecting an orb. Interspersed throughout each level are a large number of orbs, which Spidy can collect to score points.įinishing the level quickly, collecting a large number of orbs, collecting several orbs in quick succession, and finding score multipliers all increase the player's score for that level.
Spidy can run and jump, and has the ability to shoot a web, allowing him to grapple and swing from object to object within the environment.
Players control the eponymous Spidy, an extraterrestrial spider, and navigate him through a series of levels that are filled with deadly obstacles. It received mixed to negative reviews upon release critics praised the game's aesthetics but found the gameplay frustrating due to imprecise controls and an unforgiving level of difficultly that hampered progression through the game.Īlien Spidy is a physics-based platformer video game. Players control an extraterrestrial spider who has crash-landed on Earth, as he seeks to repair his spacecraft and rescue a fellow extraterrestrial spider.Īnnounced on 8 November 2011, Alien Spidy was published on 20 March 2013 for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh, and on for the PlayStation 3. It was developed by Spanish studio Enigma Software Productions and published by Kalypso Media. Alien Spidy is a platformer video game for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Xbox 360 (through Xbox Live Arcade), and PlayStation 3 (through PlayStation Network).