GunBoat

by beerman
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.10
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.31
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★69%
A game about guns.

And boats.

Action on the high seas as you battle the enemy boats. Why? Because they're there. (See, the plot is minimalist as well as the graphics. That's like irony or subtext or something!)

The main .jar build should work on anything with a recent JRE installed (http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp).

Controls :

Arrows move left and right.

Space or left CTRL to fire.

Android Controls :

Touch left/right edges to move. Touch both to fire

Comments18

Toestee
Toestee29 Apr 2013, 06:47
Very cool, love the art style
spilth
spilth29 Apr 2013, 12:47
Nice job on the explosion and torpedo alarm graphics. It's cool that an alarm sounds when torpedos are coming but I wish there was something I could do about them? Some music would help set the mood. Nice job though!
argo1529 Apr 2013, 18:08
Fun game, it gets the epic spud award.
CiderPunk29 Apr 2013, 18:14
bonus points for the potato!
arrowthefighter29 Apr 2013, 19:22
nice game but soesn't have that good of a story line
orangepascal
orangepascal29 Apr 2013, 19:23
reminds me of many early 80's games on the Spectrum! Very nice, enjoyed it !
cmayhem29 Apr 2013, 20:54
Neat game. Hunting after the last few stragglers at the end of a level was a bit boring.
Sayaer
Sayaer29 Apr 2013, 23:38
This was a lot of fun! Didn't run into any issues, the difficulty scaled pretty quickly (but not unbearable). Sound effects made a great impact in the gameplay.
Zccc
Zccc30 Apr 2013, 18:45
Very cool art style!
vandriver30 Apr 2013, 19:39
Loved the art in this, very nostalgic. The higher levels were rough at the star with high unavoidable shots, then tedious near the end picking off stragglers. The beginning of them were the most fun parts, though, smashing through an ocean of ships.
DustyStylus
DustyStylus1 May 2013, 10:27
Agree about the edges being a bit difficult to catch stragglers. Nice game though.
Nanolotl
Nanolotl2 May 2013, 02:40
The layered water effect was very cool.
Blinked2 May 2013, 13:32
Nice little game. Love the way you handled the simple art style, pretty fun overall if a bit repetitive.
lorancou
lorancou2 May 2013, 21:01
I played the android version on my old galaxy s and it works pretty well, congrats!
naughtyloose4 May 2013, 11:28
that was cool. I liked the graphic style a lot. Reminded me of the old DOS and amiga games. Gameplay gets a bit boring over the time so maybe add some upgrades to your gun or other stuff to enhance the experience would be a good idea. Anyway great game :)
ohsqueezy
ohsqueezy5 May 2013, 15:49
Great horizon and explosion effects!
rzfmzn9 May 2013, 22:55
Great work, reminded me a bit Radar Mission from the GB. =O)
rogueNoodle
rogueNoodle16 May 2013, 15:20
Nice! This brought me back to youth - there was a game on the Colecovision that I loved and this reminded me of it in all the right ways :) Wish I could remember the name of the game, though... 'Submarine', maybe?

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