Sector Prime
Real-time space expedition: refit anything, rescue your wing, outrun the hive.
Facts
| Developer | Binary Helix (Linh Ngo) |
|---|---|
| Genre | Short-session space expedition roguelite, real-time tactical combat |
| Platforms | Browser (now), Android (test track now), Steam Early Access and iOS to follow |
| Price | Browser build free. Store prices to be announced. |
| Session | A full expedition in about fifteen minutes; longer if you go looking |
| Input | Mouse and keyboard, or touch. No gamepad yet. |
| Languages | English |
| Engine | TypeScript, Canvas 2D, no runtime dependencies; 43,000 lines; deterministic 60 Hz simulation; 470 headless tests |
| Contact | linh@ai-hacker.com |
Ten things that are true
- Any module fits any slot; one of each type. A second shield displaces the first into the hold.
- Weapons take hardpoints because a mount is a physical place on the hull.
- Six named pilots are rescued mid-fight or not at all; berths cap at four, so you never get them all.
- Stealth is a signature, not a switch: firing, burning and colliding all raise it.
- A collision always blooms a cloak, so ramming is the counter to a cloaked ship.
- The Veil Projector wraps any ship, yours or theirs, in a field nothing shoots through, and makes its holder the loudest thing on the field.
- The Skarn hive is quiet for 420 days, then takes worlds, and each one shortens the wait for the next.
- Every arrival asks two questions in order: is anything shooting, and then, what is here.
- Forty-four hulls across seven factions, each faction deploying in its own formation.
- A sector seed replays identically, so a bug report with a seed and a day count reproduces exactly.
Images and video
Right-click to save. All images are captured from the build at 1920 x 1080 or phone resolution; the trailer is 1080p H.264.
Trailer, MP4, 55 seconds · Phone screenshot, 1080 x 1920
Asset provenance
All art, music, sound effects and voice lines were generated with an asset pipeline the developer built; the code was written with Claude Code under the developer's direction; the design, tuning and tests are the developer's own. Nothing is generated while the game runs. No third-party characters, art, logos or other copyrighted works were used as prompts or references.
| Asset class | Count | Made with |
|---|---|---|
| Ship sprites | 44 | Image model via the developer's asset CLI, keyed from a flat backdrop, prepared to 128 px |
| Module and item icons | 30 | Same pipeline, 64 to 128 px |
| Scenes: menu backdrops, planets, pilot portraits, endings | 62 | Same pipeline |
| Music | 20 tracks | Music model via the asset CLI |
| Sound effects | 29 | Sound-effect model via the asset CLI |
| Voice lines | 51 | Text-to-speech via the asset CLI |
| Code | 43,000 lines | Written with Claude Code under the developer's direction; 470 tests |
| Design, rules, names, text, balance | The developer |
The exact model list and licenses will be published with the asset tool's own documentation.
The developer
Linh Ngo founded Binary Helix and shipped Dangerous, a 3D open-world space RPG, on iOS, Android and Amazon in 2011 and 2012 and on Steam in December 2014. Steam rates Dangerous Mostly Negative. Its soundtrack, with Sean Beeson, won an iFanzine Outstanding Original Soundtrack award. Version 2.6.1 returned to Google Play in 2026. Sector Prime is the answer to those reviews: short, readable, and built to be tested.