You fought in the second galactic war. You were the only survivor of your wing, and your ship was badly damaged. Your onboard repair AI was constantly repairing the ship systems, but you had only power to enable one subsystem at a time. Ultimately, your ship was destroyed. After drifting in space for days in just your vacsuit, you were finally rescued. That was years ago. You are now called a hero, but that battle in your damaged ship still haunts you in your dreams...
The game is such a dream.
"Dreams of war" is a simple SHMUP. I put way too much work into lots of small details, and I hope someone notices :P There are periodic level ups after killing enough enemies. On each level up, you can select which subsystem of the ship you want to activate (But only one. See what I did there? I'm such a creative genius...). The subsystems get stronger with every level up, as do the hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
The game runs fine in Chrome and Firefox. I didn't bother with other browsers because of time and sanity. Music is the DeepSpaceOne stream from SomaFM.
The atmosphere and audio is amazing. The headphones really did a whole lot - thanks for suggesting it! Pretty polished, and I loved the deep boom signaling a successful shot.
Nice. Galaga on steroids. Nice sound effects and a good choice of music. Played solidly and the little spaceships had its simple charm. At first I thought 'who is the idiot that puts fire and movement for the same hand?" And then I found it had autofire :) Consistent style also, the game, menu, choice menu and hi-score ui were all the same retro style. It was pretty hard, because the ship moved so fast (the reverse of my game then :)
Very nicely executed and a great setup. One minor UI nitpick: I would typically expect the whole screen to flash only when I get hit, not when I successfully hit an enemy. This lead to some confusing moments where I wasn't entirely sure if I had run into something.
Wow cool sound design man. Extremly hard difficulty because the fire button ^^ and the fast shooting frequency of the enemys... Liked the very minimalistic gameart. Thanks!
Very good, I love low-bit-style graphic, and yours is amazing! Very cool explode effect by the way ;) Sounds are good, but the music not really suit me;) Overall - very good! :D
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Nice sound effects and a good choice of music.
Played solidly and the little spaceships had its simple charm.
At first I thought 'who is the idiot that puts fire and movement for the same hand?" And then I found it had autofire :)
Consistent style also, the game, menu, choice menu and hi-score ui were all the same retro style.
It was pretty hard, because the ship moved so fast (the reverse of my game then :)
Bookmarked your game for later. Great one!