The game is complete and has six levels (each with 6 waves of robots). The only controls are Up and Down to move the player. For every 30 robots with a blue outline you shoot, your weapon gets upgraded.
There is only a Windows version which I have tested in Win7 64-bit, but it should also work in Windows XP and above. There is no audio.
I kept progress updates on my twitter: @DigiJerm. The game doesn't really follow the theme, but too bad. :)
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Update (2011-9-3): I have made a post-compo version that makes the fireballs from the red-stripe robot easier to see. It also fixes some rendering glitches. This version requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher.
@daandruff: The robots with the red stripe shoot very fast moving (almost invisible, unfortunately) fireballs which is probably why your health is going down. To avoid them you need to be constantly moving.
I'm not sure why you're not losing life when you get hit, but it only counts as hitting if the fireball hits right in the center of the player sprite (which for the smaller fireballs can look like the collision detection is not working :)).
Neat! It could really use some sound, and visual distinction as well. It's really really hard to see most of the bullets, which is bad in a bullet hell like this one.
The enemies could have used a bit more graphic variety. The lack of sounds made this hard to play and the unclear collision box made getting hit feel a little arbitrary.
p.s. I forgot to mention how much I totally love that you don't make me tap a fire key all the time. I'm bumping your fun rating up for that.
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hamster_mk_430 Aug 2011, 00:34
I had a hard time tracking the yellow shots, and died on level 3. Otherwise the game was quite fun. I also applaud your choice to not make the user hold the fire button.
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I'm not sure why you're not losing life when you get hit, but it only counts as hitting if the fireball hits right in the center of the player sprite (which for the smaller fireballs can look like the collision detection is not working :)).
Better luck next time.