n0rad: Animal Defense - Casual 3D UFO Blaster

3D Models

• Cow 3D model by styloo - https://styloo.itch.io/animals
• Chicken 3D model by Maf'j Alvarez - http://www.limbicfish.net/
• Sheep 3D model by Ismir Beširović / Iso Game Lab - https://isogl.artstation.com/
• Pig 3D model by Nicole Harris - https://sketchfab.com/16nharris
• Whale 3D model by Fero - https://www.fab.com/sellers/Fero
• Frog 3D model by Sergey Ananyev - https://www.artstation.com/gooseg

Sounds

• Cow.wav by Media_M - https://motionarray.com/browse/producer/mediam/
• cartoon_chicken.wav by shawshank73 - https://freesound.org/s/100884/
• bah bala oveja/baa bleat sheep.WAV by SergioJbs - https://freesound.org/s/669872/
• Two pigs by the river, grunting and squealing by MatiasEzcurra - https://freesound.org/s/147240/
• 06 Several Whales.aif by listeningtowhales - https://freesound.org/s/323048/
• Frog croaking in the rain by RavenWolfProds - https://freesound.org/s/725579/

2026-Oct-11: Android and PC version 1.9.5 released

More ways to play. More reasons to rescue!

• Better Google Play Games on PC controls: move the mouse to look, left-click to fire, and press Esc for the menu. (Android version only)
• Unlock 8 local achievements! Track your progress, celebrate each unlock, and take on new rescue challenges. Achievements work offline, with no extra account needed.

2026-Oct-09: Android and PC version 1.9.4 released

Wave Attack has more variety and a new challenge!

• Face shuffled Swarm, Raiders, Rescue Rush, and Supply Break encounters, each with different enemies, terrain, and supplies.
• Every fifth wave ends with a massive mothership boss.
• Dodge warned attacks and shoot the glowing underside to interrupt abductions and save animals.
• Encounter Abductor, Gunner, and Carrier bosses as you progress.
• Track bosses with a dedicated health bar and radar marker.

2026-Oct-08: Android and PC version 1.9.3 released

• Flying pigs now fart sparkly rainbows. You're welcome.

2026-Oct-06: Android and PC version 1.9.2 released

• Destroying a skyhorse in level 4 now ends the level in failure, matching airplane destruction in level 1.
• Fixed health and time-stop powerups sometimes failing to collect when nearby on PC and Android. Pickups now align correctly with the drone and collect even when you’re stationary.
• Fixed an issue where tall terrain peaks could appear over the quadcopter on some levels.
• Adjusted terrain heights on levels 1–4, 6, and 8 to prevent tall peaks from intersecting the quadcopter on desktop and Android.
• Improved level 4’s background movement: the sun, distant clouds, and mountains now shift naturally as you look around, while remaining distant as you fly.
• Fixed the Windows taskbar showing the Processing icon instead of the n0rad game icon while the game is running. (PC version only)

2026-Oct-03: Android and PC version 1.9.1 released

• Fixed camera tilt and crosshair alignment. Shots keep a consistent speed, and screen shake preserves aim
• The tutorial now counts nearby moving, frozen, or beaming spaceships toward the navigation lesson
• The Level 1 planet stays anchored in the sky as you look around, with a consistent size
• Fixed demo aiming: the view now turns with the shots, keeping them aligned with the crosshair (Android version only)
• Radar and dots now scale to fit the aiming area, with equal side margins

2026-Sep-29: Android and PC version 1.9 released

• Convert level 1 planet picture in background to textured, rotating 3D model
• Add atmosphere to Wave Attack
• Make level 3 ground textures different
• Replace level 4 squids with skyhorses, blend ground textures seamlessly, and adjust and slow cloud morphing
• Make level 5 beachy and add palm trees
• Add iridescent obsidian terrain with plasma pockets and lavender slab seams to Android Level 6
• Cache the terrain texture during level loading
• Rework Level 8 finale atmosphere and terrain
  • Replace sky rings and debris with an eclipse and slow horizon haze
  • Join terrain tops seamlessly while preserving falling-piece slopes
  • Reduce ground texture contrast and hide internal block walls
  • Add terrain geometry regression tests
• Disallow health being able to exceed 100
• Fix difficulty changes only fully applying after restarting the application
• Fix difficulty mechanics and ease Level 5 on Easy and Normal
  • Stop Easy health regeneration while paused
  • Make deliberate UAP misses clear the player's hitbox
  • Honor configured freeze durations using active gameplay time
  • Suspend freeze timers during pauses, menus, and tutorial reading
  • Reset freeze state when loading a level
  • Reduce Level 5 enemy damage, firing frequency, and tractor-beam strength
  • Add difficulty regression coverage and update tutorial timing tests
• Fix pig firing cooldown
  • Advance each pig's cooldown once per frame instead of per nearby enemy
  • Preserve the 150-frame interval and one-in-three firing chance
  • Select the nearest active UAP when ready to fire
  • Prevent idle time from accumulating burst shots
  • Add regression tests for firing cadence and target selection
• Track persistent per-level play time and animals saved
  • Accumulate per-level and overall totals across replays
  • Separate campaign and Wave Attack statistics
  • Exclude pauses, menus, loading, and demos from play time
  • Save statistics periodically and on level completion or exit
  • Add persistence and lifecycle tests; leave statistics UI for later

2026-Sep-24: Android and PC version 1.8 released

• New atmospheres across levels 1–8: alien dusk, moonlit highlands, crumbling worlds, open skies with detailed squids, the Milky Way, dark plasma with fast palette cycling behind layered stars, a brilliant sun over level 7’s misty ocean, and a violet vortex with tumbling debris. Level 3 beaming rebalanced; level 8 lighting brightened. Boats rest on land when water recedes and refloat as it rises. Level 7 whales beam up 3× faster. Removed unused backgrounds to reduce download size.

2026-Sep-22: Android and PC version 1.7.0 released

• Level 0 is now a guided tutorial! Learn to move, look around, fire, find health and time-stop cubes, and track down spaceships using the automap. Complete it once, and future games start at level 1. Want a refresher? Replay the tutorial anytime by selecting level 0 in Settings.
• Made abductions show on automap on levels 1 and 4.
• Updated How to Play to clarify that red dots mark abductions on every campaign level, while their visibility is randomized in Wave Attack.
• Idle demos no longer play level music, even when music is enabled in Settings.

2026-Sep-17: Android and PC version 1.6.0 released

• Faster bullets, improved hit detection, and a higher firing rate.

2026-Sep-16: Android and PC version 1.5.0 released

• Added gameplay demos that play automatically when the title screen is idle.

2026-Sep-15: Android and PC version 1.4.0 released

• Added engine sound and beam-up sounds to spaceships
• Changed drone firing sound
• Changed spaceship textures
• Changed font of web site text and version number text to menu font
• Significantly reduced file size of Windows version with Java (both installer and .zip file versions)

2026-Sep-14: Android and PC version 1.3.0 released

• Added support for 31 languages
• Fixed loading screen timeout

2026-Sep-13: Android and PC version 1.2.0 released

• Replaced the simple victory text scroller with a peaceful epilogue scene.
• Prevented the tap used to advance between levels from carrying movement, aiming, or firing into the newly loaded level (Android version).
• Ships are now hidden until their initial dispatch to their first location, eliminating player ability to shoot them while hovering in the sky awaiting deployment

2026-Sep-07: Android and PC version 1.1.0 released

• Display and controls
• Fullscreen is now the default for new installations; saved display preferences are preserved
• Added ALT+ENTER to switch between fullscreen and windowed mode, with support for both left and right Alt
• Fixed main-menu mouse targeting and layout scaling after resizing or maximizing the window
• Escape now pauses the game and opens the main menu, like M
• Press Escape again from the main menu to resume the active game, including Wave Attack
• Holding Escape does not repeatedly switch screens, and Escape no longer closes the application. Use Quit from the menu to exit
• Updated the in-game controls instructions
• Startup and presentation
Added the Majgaz company-logo intro with softly faded oval edges, a deer-snort sound, and a smooth fade before the main menu
• Replaced the bright white startup screen with a black background while assets load
• Gameplay and performance
• Fixed Wave Attack incorrectly reaching the campaign ending after wave 9, allowing progression through all 50 waves
• Reduced repeated bullet collision checks against enemies
• Optimized terrain updates, minimap drawing, and animal counting using indexed block lists
• Terrain rendering
• Fixed mismatched ground and water corners between adjacent tiles
• Kept animated terrain heights consistent across each frame and as the visible area moves
• Extended cube sides and restored missing faces to close gaps between blocks at different heights
• Audio and branding
• Music now defaults to off for new players; saved preferences are preserved
• Updated the website text from n0rad.com to majgaz.com

2025-Dec-30: Android and PC version 1.0 released

• New second enemy ship type added.
• Wave attack tunnel background now stops moving when paused.

2025-Dec-11: Android and PC version 0.0.44 released (PC version number 0.0.43 skipped)

• Created new "Wave Attack" play mode:
• • Contains 50 levels with randomly generated properties, lighting, and landscape.
  • UAPs get more aggressive and numerous as you go from one level to the next.
  • The landscape is a little smaller making the gameplay faster.
  • The background/encapsulating the gameplay area is a giant 3d moving tunnel.
• Quaddie now explodes on death.
• UAPs now flash white on damage.
• Heightened UAPs alarm zone.
• Reduced maximum UAP bullet speed on levels where it was going through the player without causing damage.
• Lowered default music volume 10%.
• Reduced title screen menu item font size to fit PC version 1024x768 windowed resolution.
• PC only: Adjusted placement of Quaddie to coordinate with screen resolution.

2025-Dec-06: New, optimized, device-specific APKs have been added for faster performance on Android.

• There is a Recommended 64-bit ARM (arm64-v8a) build that is marked as such.
• The Compatibility build is for older devices.
• There is a build for Chromebooks.

2025-Dec-04: Android version 0.0.43 released

• Adjusted placement of your character, Quaddie the Quad-copter drone, in 3D space so they are more visible in more resolutions.

2025-Dec-02: Android and PC version 0.0.42 released

• You are now Quaddie, the Quad-copter drone. This new 3d object is drawn at the user's location/center screen to represent the user. It has moving propellors, vibrates, and tilts accordingly when you move.

2025-Nov-27: Android and PC version 0.0.41 released

• UAPs now take multiple hits to destroy and have health bar.
• Player health restores 1 point every X # of game loops (around half a second) on easy mode.
• Revised levels 0-3 UAP and animal counts, tractor beam speeds, etc.
• Fixed lock-up bug on Pigs vs UFOs level 8.
• PC version: Added display preference to settings screen.
• PC version: Added full screen / windowed resolution switcher to settings screen.

2025-Nov-13: PC version 0.0.40 released

• Adjust window sizing behavior on startup to properly stretch to display.

2025-Nov-02: Android and PC version 0.0.39 released

• Adjust enemy difficulty on multiple levels to be more challenging.
• PC version: Fix settings menu showing same menu item twice after starting game.

2025-Oct-13: Android and PC version 0.0.38 released

• Added second explosion type to UAP that happens once in a while / less often than regular explosion.
• Made text scroller more legible by putting white duplicate of text behind black text and slowed slightly.
• Fix UAPs going underwater when animals running out, on level 7.

2025-Oct-03: Android and PC version 0.0.37 released

• Name revised to "n0rad: animal defense".
• Created new [last] Level 8 - Pigs vs UFOs 2, with multiple effects, falling [cube] blocks, jazzy background, ambient background audio.
• Added Frogs on Lily Pads to Level 7 - the water world with whales.
• Whales now move up and down with water.
• UAPs no longer move up and down with ground waving on level 0.
• Tweaks to UAP movement/beaming/animal slowfall, level loading optimizations, and more.
• Revised text scroller - removed plane and opacity behind text and made text wavier.
• Added frog 3d model and frog croak sound credits to attributions screen.

2025-Sep-20: Android and PC version 0.0.36 released

• Fix UAP projectiles being able to damage player multiple times.

2025-Sep-19: Android and PC version 0.0.35 released

• Improve UAP targeting of player.
• Increase water opacity and raindrop count on level 7.
• Tighten proximity requirement for UAP to beam up.
• Modify player hitbox to fix bullets passing through player.
• Fix UAP can fire while blowing up.
• Fix sine table so level 5 and 7 water no longer has seam.
• Level 5 (animals in boats) updates:
• Increase tractor beam power.
• Lower water ripple magnitude.
• Fix boats not waving up and down with water.
• Make boats rest on land when water sinks beneath it.
• Fill in fourth wall of boats.

2025-Sep-16: Android and PC version 0.0.34 released

• New Level 7, with Whales, and other new features!
• Level 3 having missing blocks, has been replaced with a new behavior. Now, blocks, even those with animals, randomly break loose and fall away.
• Changing level from settings menu is now available even while level is already in progress.
• Animals now slow-fall to ground instead of snapping to ground when UAP blown up.
• UAPs get closer to animal before beaming up, and UAP targeting of player improved.
• Improved level loading.
• Fixed screen sticking moving or firing when level stats screen displays.
• Android version: Fixed sound not starting on successive launches.
• PC version: Created installers for Windows Java and no-java packages.

2025-Aug-29: Android and PC version 0.0.33 "When Pigs Fly" / "Pigs VS UFOs" released

• Created new level 6, with flying pigs that shoot the UAPs
• New settings screen item lets you start at any level previously beaten
• Fixed UAPs sometimes idle when animals still available
• Fixed UAP explosion lighting bug
• Made loading screen randomly choose between showing cow, pig, sheep, or chicken
• Revised levels 3, 4, and 5

2025-Aug-11: Android version 0.0.32 released (PC version update pending)

• Fixed level reset to 0 after level 4 is beat; level 5 is now accessible.
• Reduced # of animals on level 3 and 5, animals and squids on level 4 and added two UAPs.

2025-July-24: PC (Windows and Linux) version 0.0.31 released

• Integrated all updates that had been made to the Android version up to 0.0.31 and upped the version number to match

2025-July-21: Android version 0.0.31 released

• Created new level, 5, with water, and animals in boats!
• Music now pause/resumes when game is paused/resumed
• Added music to level 3 (and the new level 5), bringing total package size up ~8 MB

2025-July-17: Android version 0.0.30 released

• New "Freeze" power-up and sound effect created
• Made health power-up play sound
• Slightly reduced terrain height variation on level 2

2025-July-16: Android version 0.0.29 released

• Slow down text scroller
• Add outline to text on end-of-level stats screen - text was hard to see on level 4 stats screen
• Fixed main menu items not animating when you hold down on them
• Fix not being able to still shoot after the game ends

2025-July-15: Android version 0.0.28 released

• Add new level 4 with some brand new features
• Make text scroller look like plane pulling a banner
• Further integrate text size setting
• and many other efficiency improvements

2025-July-09: Android version 0.0.27 released - Menu button now requires only one tap and has outline. New setting for in-game text size.

2025-July-09: Android version 0.0.26 released - Tightened up settings menu to display properly on more devices.

2025-July-08: PC version 0.0.23, Android version 0.0.25 released - Added New screen "How to Play" to Main Menu options. 0.0.24 was code re-organization.

2025-July-07: Seeking testers for Google Play Closed Testing phase

2025-July-06: n0rad 0.0.23 for Android released

• Fixed "Invert Tilt" setting applying inversely
• Changed music player to appropriate Android equivalent, fixing crash/freeze during level 3 music loading

2025-July-02: n0rad beta 0.0.22 released - PC & Android: Fix 3rd and 4th levels UAPs too fast

2025-July-01: n0rad beta 0.0.21 released for PC and Android platforms

• Android version: Raise Target Android API level to 35
• PC & Android: Removed power-ups main menu item
• PC & Android: Fix Invert Tilt setting not loading on start
• PC & Android: Change player bullet from spinning textured cube to sphere inside translucent sphere
• PC version: Hooked up Invert movement and Invert tilt settings, fixed Quit button full region not clickable

2025-June-30: n0rad beta 0.0.19 released for current platforms, and new Android version released!

2025-June-12: n0rad beta 0.0.12 made public on itch.io, in state "In Development"