A puzzle game, somewhat similar to breakout, with tons (4!) cool weapons, spaaaaace, and a zippy little spaceship. One caveat: You Only Get One Direction.
To run, just download the appropriate file for your platform, extract it, and run the midnight_memories executable that's inside the folder. Not exactly complicated.
CONTROLS -------- A/D - Rotate weapons bay clockwise/counterclockwise. Space - Move upward (the only direction you get :P). Arrow Keys - Shoot X - Teleport back to start position (use it wisely).
The goal is to survive for as many waves as possible, before your British boy-band crew faints from lack of oxygen. To do this, you need to defeat the alien menace blocking your path. There are five types of aliens:
1) White - Normal, run-of-the-mill baddie. Shoot them. 2) Green - Can only be damaged by green shots. (Consequently, they are the only thing green shots do ANY damage to). 3) Red - Through their fiery hatred of humanity, they can burn off excess oxygen. Hitting them with a green shot reduces your remaining time by 100. 4) Blue - These tanky bastards are extremely difficult to kill. Dodongo dislikes smoke. 5) Yellow - Refract lasers into green shots.
It was a bit confusing at first, because I didn't understand how some of the blocks worked I just thought you had to match the colors at first. But once I figured it out it was pretty interesting. Love the music!
Wow, thanks for the music praise. I figured that that was my worst asset, given that it's a 7 second loop that I made in 15 minutes using SunVox. I'll probably add a tutorial mode for a post-compo release, since I quite like the concept.
Playing on Windows 7 - The game flickered in fullscreen, and I'm not sure if there's a way to make it windowed. I've had this problem with other games, but I figured I'd see if there's a way to make it windowed.
The game leaves you with this feeling of trance... It's complicated but linear at the same time, but once you kinda figure out a way to do stuff, you don't stop until you complete one wave, at least. It IS a bit hard to get into, though, and I saw myself using the yellow and green lasers more often than I stopped to think about what would be more effective against what. Final thoughts: I feel like it could've matched the theme more than it did... Also, pressing Escape to quit would be nice.
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So this ranks high for me!
It IS a bit hard to get into, though, and I saw myself using the yellow and green lasers more often than I stopped to think about what would be more effective against what.
Final thoughts: I feel like it could've matched the theme more than it did... Also, pressing Escape to quit would be nice.
But, controls are terrible)