# Galaxian: reimplementing Galaxy on Fire 1 for Godot

> Galaxian reimplements the iPhone edition of Galaxy on Fire 1 as a Godot engine. It imports ships, missions, artwork and other resources from the player's IPA, reads AEM and AEI formats, and extracts selected embedded Mach-O definitions into a local cache. The remake adds its own controls and play modes alongside the reconstructed campaign.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/TheWWWorm/galaxian>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TheWWWorm/galaxian/blob/6b280bbfea215d9a75aa1c47d6e4695dfecf1913/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/galaxian-gof1-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/galaxian-gof1-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/galaxian-gof1-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's compatible Galaxy on Fire 1 iPhone IPA; the validated archive identifies as version 1.1.5.
- **Limits:** The reader requires an unencrypted ARM32 app with content symbols; other editions have not been validated.
- **License:** Apache-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TheWWWorm/galaxian/blob/6b280bbfea215d9a75aa1c47d6e4695dfecf1913/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/TheWWWorm/galaxian/blob/6b280bbfea215d9a75aa1c47d6e4695dfecf1913/ARCHITECTURE.md>

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