The Orbital Ion Cannon. Able to fire tightly-collimated proton beams at any point on the Earth's surface. Perfect for all your giant-death-ray-related needs!
Or at least, that was how they pitched it to the budget committee. Sadly none of the engineers stopped to think, if the Ion Cannon is constantly creating positive ions and firing them at high speed towards the Earth's surface - where's all the negative charge supposed to go?
So now, as the AI in control of the newly-launched Orbital Ion Cannon, it's your job to deal with all those pesky charged particles. Make sure the beam stream keeps firing - and make sure those ions don't become unionised.
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Controls: Mouse. Hold the mouse button down to charge it up, release to push particles around. Once the countdown counts down, the cannon will fire and only if there is a hydrogen ion, with no electrons, in the firing chamber (the rectangle at the bottom). Three successive failed shots = game over. Good luck!
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This game was made in 24 hours, at the Manchester MadLab meetup.
Pretty neat little physics game! The mechanics still seem really rough and early, but I bet if you experimented with them more you could find something really cool!
A fantastic concept done well, especially considering only half the time was allowed. Great mechanic that is fun to play and rewards the player the harder it gets.
The colouring of H+ and e- throw me off a little and I initially suspected the red ones to be bad.
Almost got to 8 but one damn electron sneaked into the firing chamber at the last second. Didn't manage to ventilate the extra supply fast enough so it always got quite packed after 6 or so shots.
Neat little game and a cool unconventional weapon.
Cool idea, but the gameplay was pretty frustrating. There is no real skill, it's kinda down to luck. The graphics and the game are both well polished though.
I was doubtful reading the description at first but playing it turned my thoughts around. I liked the concept with having to separate to make ions and it was fun juggling them around until I could blast the -e out the top. too bad there was no audio. No perceived sound in space right? Didn't really see the theme though.
This is pretty fun but it is very luck-based, it's really hard to get them bouncing where you want them. I guess all my ions joined the trade union (became unionised)
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The colouring of H+ and e- throw me off a little and I initially suspected the red ones to be bad.
Neat little game and a cool unconventional weapon.