You are the last hope for the united core worlds against the insidious Sectai horde. Fly the latest prototype fighters against a brutal (and possibly endless) swarm of Sectai ships. WASD to move your ship, press slash to fire primary weapons, and right Shift to fire Specials.
The name's a homage to the crazy Japanese shmups of the 90s.
Also, (as part of the Connected Worlds theme) it was originally going to be an online coop multiplayer game but the server was having a fit managing all the entities. I re-purposed the theme into players having to choose their combination of weapons from the best of the core world's united R&D. Every time a player dies, the technology they were using is lost... :)
Interesting little game, I like the concept and how you expanded on the genre. Nice sound and minimalist graphics too. I have to admit the controls were confusing at first. I didn't realize the fire button was the "/" key. Something about the way "? - Fire Primary" looks is confusing. Anyway, the rest of it is pretty straightforward and fun. Nice work!
Figuring out the buttons took a little too long. "? for fire" is strange and unintuitive.
That said, game worked well, i liked the idea of choosing from the remaining ships/weapons when losing a life. One weapon seemed like it didn't do any damage (The wave that gets bigger with time).
? FOR FIRE? I just couldn't figure it out. Luckily, I saw @sprawl's comment and ended up figuring it out. I like the variety of ships and weapons, but when you're actually in game, they all feel the same and the gameplay is easy / repetitive. It would be great if you could incorporate all the different weapons into a more robust game.
Yeah, sorry about the controls. Dropped the ball on that one. I just got so used to quick;y testing it while coding I didn't even think about it and then gaffed when I made the instructions. Oh well, thanks for playing! :)
Neat game! I liked the pixel-art outline look. Some transition between playing and the game-over/ship selection screens would have been welcome, though, and when you don't have any limitations on "special" weaponry, they no longer feel really special.
The MMO version of this sounds like it would have been really cool! No problems with the controls for me; unorthodox, but not hard to use.
The Linux build works. I was expecting this to be much faster-paced. The removal of ships & weapons when you die is interesting. It'd probably fit better if you had to plan out your approach based on the enemy types in the following levels. The music is alright. It fits the mood, and doesn't get annoying (the important part).
Nitpicks:
- Text before ship selection scrolls too fast for me to read, and doesn't stop moving at the end. On top of that, the background doesn't make for easy reading. - '/' for fire, not '?'!
cool idea choosing the ship components... it is challenging too. Was game over faster than i could look :D The particle fx feels like a stranger... but the game is, what it should be... a playable prototyp. Good job
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That said, game worked well, i liked the idea of choosing from the remaining ships/weapons when losing a life. One weapon seemed like it didn't do any damage (The wave that gets bigger with time).
Good job !
The MMO version of this sounds like it would have been really cool! No problems with the controls for me; unorthodox, but not hard to use.
Nitpicks:
- Text before ship selection scrolls too fast for me to read, and doesn't stop moving at the end. On top of that, the background doesn't make for easy reading.
- '/' for fire, not '?'!