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#1 Outgun

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 08:49 AM

ALPHA BREED


Conquer the Earth and other human-controlled areas through-out the universe in 5 missions!
In Alpha Breed, you play as an evil alien race, the Stalkers, with the ambition of conquering the galaxy.
The game is a horizontal shooter with a challenging difficulty level.

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CONTROLS

Arrow keys - movement
F - fire laser
D - fire missile(s)
A - drop bomb
Enter - pause / purchase
Space - start mission

We've worked long and hard on this game and would be very pleased to hear your feedback.
So please check it out! You can download Alpha Breed here.

Edited by Outgun, 19 May 2011 - 08:59 AM.

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#2 Lightang3l

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 08:52 AM

Links are broken... :unsure:
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#3 Outgun

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 09:00 AM

Links are broken... :unsure:


How embarrassing! How about now?
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#4 Lightang3l

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 10:10 AM

I like the detail in the death animations of the enemies :D
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#5 Unsung Hero

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Posted 20 May 2011 - 02:01 AM

Nice game. There were a couple of things I didn't like, however.

-No toggle fullscreen option
-Movement has friction, which I don't like that much in scrolling shooters
-I'm not sure, but are there checkpoints to save your progress?
-Kind of hard; I bumble around because of the friction and accidentally crash into missiles and such.
-It would be helpful if we knew what the power-ups actually did...

However, there were also things I liked about it.

-Graphics were awesome
-Dying animations were great
-Cover; you don't usually find that in scrolling shooters and it was nice
-Turrets were smart

All in all, some things were good and some were bad. 7/10. :)
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#6 Outgun

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Posted 21 May 2011 - 09:46 AM

I like the detail in the death animations of the enemies :D


Thanks! In a lot of games death animations are really boring, we aim to fix that! :D
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#7 Outgun

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Posted 21 May 2011 - 10:08 AM

Nice game. There were a couple of things I didn't like, however.

-No toggle fullscreen option
-Movement has friction, which I don't like that much in scrolling shooters
-I'm not sure, but are there checkpoints to save your progress?
-Kind of hard; I bumble around because of the friction and accidentally crash into missiles and such.
-It would be helpful if we knew what the power-ups actually did...

However, there were also things I liked about it.

-Graphics were awesome
-Dying animations were great
-Cover; you don't usually find that in scrolling shooters and it was nice
-Turrets were smart

All in all, some things were good and some were bad. 7/10. :)


Hey, thank you for the feedback!
-As for the fullscreen toggle option, we are fans of immersion so we didn't even realize someone would want to play in windowed mode. However, we'll incorporate this in future games. :)
-There is no saving in Alpha Breed, the start of a new level (room) acts as a checkpoint. In the sequel that we're currently making, there will be both checkpoints and saving your game. :)
- Good point on the power-up infos. That is just bad design on our part, sorry. We'll have to think of something for it.
- As for friction, yes it makes the game so much more difficult. When we started making this game, we were kinda novice on shooters so we didn't think it'd be a big deal. Our official stand is against friction nowadays :D However, if we were to remove friction, it would make the game too easy and we'd have to balance and test it all over again, so we will leave it for now and concentrate on future games.

Good points! Comments like yours make game-making so much more worth-while. :)
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#8 Unsung Hero

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Posted 27 May 2011 - 01:39 AM

*gasp*
A sequel?!!
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#9 Outgun

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Posted 27 May 2011 - 11:39 AM

*gasp*
A sequel?!!


You bet! :D It's been under development for quite some time now and we hope to finish it by the end of the year.
We still need to make 3 boss battles, a few levels, graphics for them, fix the soundtrack and have a lot of testing ahead of us.
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#10 Unsung Hero

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 12:45 AM

For the soundtrack I recommend Original Music Studios if you haven't contacted a composer already. He made some music for me and it was free.
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#11 Outgun

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 08:43 AM

For the soundtrack I recommend Original Music Studios if you haven't contacted a composer already. He made some music for me and it was free.


Hey, thanks for tip! We have a regular composer, though. :)
By the way, can you recommend a way to promote our game? Seems writing this topic and reviewing other games hasn't earned a lot of attention for our game.
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