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[fawful]

I made this game for a small comp on GMG,it had be finished by a deadline so it's a little rough around the edges,but over all it's pretty cool.



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I've updated the game!

Mainly it's the graphics that have been improved,but also,lots of people have said the ship move WAY to slow,so i've sped it up a bit.
Also an optional easy mode(which kills the length of it due the infernal easyness of the mode,it's basicly an option to tear the games soul out).

BTW improved graphics includes the ship,meaning it looks tons better than it's slower predecessor.

Use arrow keys and X to move and fire.

Edited by fawful, 08 January 2009 - 01:15 PM.

[llama man]

Your... "ship" or whatever it is is way too big and slow, i get hit by almost everything thats fired in my direction. Other that the game being a bit too hard for my liking, its awesome as hell. Graphics are really cool, i liked that first miniboss or what it is, the one with the giant face on it. Sounds suited the game and so did the music. Its a nice timewaster for those who can bare to retry more than 3 times and not breaking the pc.

Gameplay: 6/10 a bit too hard and not all that fun.

Graphics: 9-10/10 i really like the look of it.

Sounds: 9/10 Sounds were great.

Overall: I cant do math so you'll have to calculate it yourself, lol.

[fawful]

Thanks llama guy!
I've got quite a few comments about the ship being too slow and big,it's something to take note of for the future.
Im glad you enjoyed it.

[jcgurango]

Well llama, your score goes to the infinitith decimal place so I'll round it off for you:
8.167/10

[SaMBRouGHToN]

Well llama, your score goes to the infinitith decimal place so I'll round it off for you:
8.167/10

It comes to 8/10, so you can't be very clever can you?

[chichmonkey]

I do believe you've misspelled Cruiser.
Yeah, since 24/3 is a ratio, the number can't be irrational.
If I were to say
Gameplay: pi/5
Graphics: square root of 23/5
Sound:the circumfrence of a circle whose diameter is 1.5 units/5
That comes to approximately 4.2166043857624008792513488407872/5.
And that's my actual review.

[just one question]

I played this last night, and it was really hard. So amazingly hard, that my average lifespan was about a minute and a half. But that minute and a half was great. Loved the graphics and atmosphere provided by the game.

Nice work, fawful.

To me, this kinda game is one you have to play over and over to get it right, like R-Type.

However! I do believe you should load some resources externally to cut down on loading time.

Edited by just one question, 07 December 2008 - 05:20 PM.

[hithere]

I like the visual style although I'm not sure what the objects are supposed to be (what's the main thing I'm controlling anyway? A mechanical bird? lol). But I couldn't get past one of the big bosses so I don't even know if there are other cooler weapons or just the one rapid fire laser gun or whatever you call it. And the screen shakes and particle effects were nicely done.
Graphics: 9.5/10
Sound: 9.5/10
Gameplay: 6/10

But I'll keep playing for a while to see if I can at least beat that darn tough boss.

[fawful]

Thanks tons everybody,i've just played it now and the ship definately needs to be faster.
Oh,and i've posted this on cactus's forum and he likes it Huzzah!

I do believe you've misspelled Cruiser

Intentional.

However! I do believe you should load some resources externally to cut down on loading time.

I did,every music file is externaly loaded,i've no idea why that loading time is so long.:/

[zachTaylor]

hell isn't awesome. It's always on fire and it hurts a lot.

But this game is actually awesome.
I had fun playing it. But I seemed to die a lot.
maybe make me move a little bit faster?

Great graphics too. How did you do in the competition?

[fawful]

hell isn't awesome. It's always on fire and it hurts a lot.

But this game is actually awesome.
I had fun playing it. But I seemed to die a lot.
maybe make me move a little bit faster?

Great graphics too. How did you do in the competition?

It looks like im going to win,we're just waiting for one of the judges to give his opion on an other game.
Yeah,the ship is epicly slow,i should of thought about speeding it up a bit before releasing it.

About the "awesome as hell"in the title,it's a quote,im not going to say that about my own game(im not that arrogant).With most of my stuff,if i get a good comment i put it up in the title in order to get the attention of peeps.

[just one question]

did,every music file is externaly loaded,i've no idea why that loading time is so long.:/

Well a .exe of 14.89 megabytes is gonna take a long time. I just figured you packed all your resources into the .exe, wonder why it's so big then.

[9_6]

Lower the inertia.
The player should take less time to reach full speed.

Also make the flapping a bit faster if you move up and get whatever makes the exe have a 14 mb filesize out of the exe!

[fawful]

Lower the inertia.
The player should take less time to reach full speed.

Also make the flapping a bit faster if you move up and get whatever makes the exe have a 14 mb filesize out of the exe!

If i update it,i will definately do that.
It's not in the exe,i externaly loaded all the sound files.Oh well,wav files are huge theres no escaping it.

[9_6]

Well apparently unpacking ressources from the exe takes time too so you might as well want to keep external things external from the start.
This shouldn't require much effort on your side anyway since the loading is already implemented.

Edited by 9_6, 13 December 2008 - 11:32 PM.

[orange08]

Ill test this game out and edit later.. Even though Im not that much for Shmups

-orange08

Edit: Nice game... I thought I had gotten to the boss though... Haha! it was too early for that.

Edited by orange08, 18 December 2008 - 09:54 PM.

[fawful]

Updated!and coughbumpcough

-Improved graphics.
-Fixed HUD depth problems(the HUD would be drawn under explotions and things)
-Made the ship move faster and look cooler.
-Optional easy/hard mode!

And thanks Orange08!
The first mini boss is quite rubbish really.

[just one question]

Nice update, still a tough game, like the new ship though I didn't hate the old one.

[graham]

Awesome! Loved the graphics!

YYG download gave me a corrupted file error while the game was loading, but the mirror worked fine.

[Sulfuric]

I liked this game, specifically the graphics style. I didn't find it super difficult, but I'm kind of a shmup junky. Once you knew where the hit box for the ship was, it got a lot easier.