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DRONE SMUGGLER

Also known as DRONE SMUGGLER, drone smuggler, drone-smuggler

DRONE SMUGGLER is an old-school, top-down space shooter with ship customization, randomly generated levels & obstacles to navigate/destroy, and thematic sounds that seek to capture some of the magic of classic video game music & effects. Battle shadespace hazards and fight for the HIGH SCORE!

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Last update

19 May 2026

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Patch notesPublished 23 Aug 2025

v0.1.8v0.1.8 - Patch Notes & Developer Comments

v0.1.8 is here and brings a bunch of fun new things to DRONE SMUGGLER :) Here's my high score from testing for this release: While the changes introduced in 0.1.8 aren't revolutionary, there's a lot here in the backgrou…

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August 2025
There have been a lot of changes in the time since the DRONE SMUGGLER Early Access launch and, since the game as of 0.1.7 is really hitting a lot of good notes for me right now, I thought this would be a good time to st…v0.1.818 changesUI/audioPerformanceStore16 Aug 2025
v0.1.6 has made way for v0.1.7 - here's the best I could do... not quite as good as the one from 0.1.5 but I think I can safely say I had longer sustained fun gameplay this time around so I'll take that trade :) That's…v0.1.716 changesGameplayBalancePatch notes16 Aug 2025
v0.1.6 Update - Asteroids & Spawn Rate Tuning! First and foremost, here's my v0.1.5 high score: There was a point in the pre-EA prototype life of this game where I had the difficulty and spawn rate tuned really well for…v0.1.617 changesGameplayBalancePatch notes14 Aug 2025
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.5 Early Access - Repair Kits! Fixes Fixed an issue that caused a crash when the game launched on a machine with no detected gamepads/controllers Changes Added some hue and scale variatio…v0.1.512 changesFixPerformancePatch notes12 Aug 2025
Dev Notes: What ways will DRONE SMUGGLER allow players to modify their ship's performance and features? Hey there! Thanks for checking out DRONE SMUGGLER... while hard work is underway to bring forth some of the more ro…8 changesPerformanceGameplayPatch notes10 Aug 2025
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.4 Early Access Fixes: Fixed an issue where the spawn rate scaling (relative to score / high score) was adding the level's minimum spawn rate each time it was updated while the score was…v0.1.45 changesFixGameplayPatch notes09 Aug 2025
July 2025
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.3 Early Access Fixes: Corrected spacing and sizing of shadescopy analysis UI elements (the colored bars at the bottom of the HUD) so that they should now appear more uniform Changes: Dir…v0.1.3ea2 changesFixUI/audioPatch notes22 Jul 2025
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.2 Early Access Fixes: Asteroids now factor in their attributes correctly when determining lateral (side-to-side) and angular (rotation) velocity Asteroids now have a (still relatively in…v0.1.2ea3 changesGameplayPatch notes15 Jul 2025

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