Minimalism - the shoot 'em up

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★88%
Designed mostly for touch screens but you control it entirely through the mouse.

The story is entirely pointless and minimal, basically shoot things, get points and collect powerups to increase your fire power, it'll get progressively harder and there is no end.

In my tests the web and desktop versions ran pretty much the same (using chrome), but your results may vary, clicking top right shows fps, if its below 60 try the desktop versions. the windows is an exe created by typing random numbers into launch4j, there's also a JAR that should work on anything!

The android version is now available on google play!

Top of my wishlist of things to add are new enemies, waves, bosses and some sort of background to fight over, but i spent too long on my engine (which is now pretty good!) and getting it to compile in GWT, which it does...sort of.

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Comments27

josefnpat
josefnpat29 Apr 2013, 11:09
Solid mechanics and gameplay!

There isn't much to this game, but then again; minimalism!
CiderPunkauthor29 Apr 2013, 11:15
Updated to correct a typo, I got the month wrong! stupids am I. now to play some other games!
CiderPunkauthor29 Apr 2013, 11:17
Thanks! that was totally what i was going for!... kinda..
Morgawr
Morgawr29 Apr 2013, 11:40
Simple game, a bit awkward to play with a mouse though.
aquilicoco29 Apr 2013, 11:42
Ahhh!! flying potatoes!!!
XD

good work.
triplefox
triplefox29 Apr 2013, 11:59
Too much gameplay...
kewry29 Apr 2013, 12:18
The game games dull really fast, perhaps because of how strong them potatoes are
CiderPunkauthor29 Apr 2013, 12:31
potatoes gonna potate yo
Qrchack
Qrchack29 Apr 2013, 15:13
cool entry, lacks actual gameplay though (bonuses, so on)... I managed to get 1k points lol
gizmo29 Apr 2013, 16:27
potatoes!
Shigor
Shigor29 Apr 2013, 16:28
Poor potatoes :/

Very minimalistic shooter (unless i've missed something, but I got tired after dodging all those fries to be, the only thing I found was a shooting powerup....)
Lucas Tiridath
Lucas Tiridath29 Apr 2013, 16:30
Simple and seems to be well implemented. Maybe the potatoes are a little too tough but all the same, well done.
Beerman29 Apr 2013, 18:46
Cool, a fellow libGdx user. Fun little shooter - you should have called it Spud Gunner though :D
GingerMess30 Apr 2013, 22:04
Shootin' da spudz. It was fun comparing progress with you Cider, good luck with your entry. :)
BenW1 May 2013, 00:41
Neat little game. I couldn't tell if there was an end to the powerups you could get and overall the game felt a bit on the easy side but I did enjoy it.
CiderPunkauthor1 May 2013, 08:50
The final gun upgrade is a 5 way blaster, there are 7 levels of upgrade,
my high score is 80,000 something :)
whilefun1 May 2013, 13:02
I found the controls with the mouse to be a bit hard to master. Nice use of the theme, and nod to potatoes haha :)
Docteur1 May 2013, 22:14
Potatoes gonna potate.
ohsqueezy
ohsqueezy5 May 2013, 16:22
That was fun! Surprisingly addictive and deep because of the high level power ups.
asifmahmood8 May 2013, 11:57
Really liked the game ... a real time killer ... Simple and a great time killer ... good job
Zoidbergtron12 May 2013, 02:00
I loved this game! I thought the controls were great, as a fan of these arcade style shooters I thought this was somehow more enjoyable than most I have played on a touchscreen. Obviously you already said what needs to be improved, but this was great!
Mach60KAS
Mach60KAS18 May 2013, 12:26
A very fun Shmup, good job! :)
sP0CkEr2
sP0CkEr219 May 2013, 04:10
42,471 -- i like the game -- tight controls

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