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Void Runner

By fireslash

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio193.6913
Innovation1143.1513
Fun713.3113
Theme1912.4212
Graphics1722.7713
Humor2571.758
Overall713.3113
Community1712.449
Coolness1772

Comments

athanazio 2011-05-03 02:38

sorry only can evaluate mac or web :\

grungi-ankhfire 2011-05-03 18:51

Would also have tried it, but unfortunately I'm on Linux, and .NET 4 doesn't run with Wine. Sorry, and too bad, I love shmups ! Good luck anyway :)

frib 2011-05-03 20:49

I suck at these kinds of games so didn't get very far. Still, nice job. It seems to be a nice and finished game.

fireslash 2011-05-03 23:58

I'm working on a silverlight port at the moment. There are some deployment snags, but I'll make a journal post when it's up. Until then if you're unable to run it, please just skip for now and hopefully it'll be up later :)

telluse 2011-05-04 23:48

Ah, finally got to try the finished product :)

It plays well, overall - the controls are responsive the action is clear and the graphics serve a nice purpose. I can't determine if I like the style or it seems simplified for the purpose, but I know that the visual feedback is quite clear between colours and their directions, so that won't become any sort of negative criticism.

The super still struck me as a tad overpowered, though. I found myself playing red colour all the way through, absorbing all red and discharging all the supers it would let me.

Oh, and on the upshot, this is the fourth XNA entry labelled "ld20.exe" and the first XNA entry that *DID NOT* cause my anti-virus program to spas out. Whatever you did, thank you :P

the-jack 2011-05-05 04:41

I run this and I get the bouncing cat game? I seem to lack the technical know-how to make this go. :(

qrunchmonkey 2011-05-06 05:52

Took me a while to get the hang of the controls. Pretty fun, but I'm terrible at shumps. Love the music!

hectigo 2011-05-08 16:57

Nice, traditional shmup. Plays well and the level of challenge is good, though the instant death is a bit unforgiving. And you've spiced it all with kick-ass audio, great work in that department.

matthias_zarzecki 2011-05-09 09:35

jesus this is hard. The color-mechanic has potential though :-)

mwest 2011-05-15 12:27

Managed to finish the first boss. It's a good entry, well done - sound and music worked together well!

Felt that the Z and X controls should've been swopped, I kept wanting to shoot with X and swop with Z...

the-jack 2011-05-23 02:40

Okay, came back and tried it again and it worked fine.

Nice take on Ikaruga, and if an old man gave me a space ship I'd probably just set course for the nearest pleasure planet.

mrwonko 2011-05-23 07:55

I like the polarity idea.

I don't like it when z/x/c are used for controlling though, since z and y are switched on German keyboards.

Nice game nonetheless, albeit somewhat difficult.