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Air Pirates

By hamster_mk_4

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation1193.1331
Fun493.4432
Theme1432.7131
Graphics363.7832
Audio2201.6015
Humor2451.8217
Overall793.2832
Community703.2124
Coolness3414

Comments

manuel777 2011-05-02 04:33

I liked it, its was very interesting to play.. With more time you could make something really cool out of this!

gamemakingdude 2011-05-03 05:17

It was pretty good but you failed to mention that X drops your current weapon.

crackerblocks 2011-05-03 05:49

pretty fun already. this game could go places.

ChargerIIC 2011-05-03 13:34

Fantastic game

mpc174 2011-05-03 17:48

Delightful! So simple, so addictive. I'm a fool for airships.

zemmi 2011-05-03 19:53

Wicked game, I would love to see this taken further. Rocket Pods seemed a little over powered and I wasn't sure what to do with the torpedo. Other than that though, it was really fun, I came back to play again, and I loved the setting. In my opinion, kickassery is you.

winterblood 2011-05-03 20:00

Enjoyable shooter with an interesting loadout mechanic, but I found it a bit clunky switching from keys to mouse to buy new weapons while under attack. Would have preferred a keyboard-controlled menu so I didn't have to keep switching input devices.

shiftingparadigms 2011-05-04 02:51

I think its a good base. The graphics are good and concept is solid. The gameplay could use some work, I felt the weapons were a little unbalanced, but that could just be me not getting it completely. Great work!

hamster_mk_4 2011-05-04 04:50

@gamemakingdude : Jettisoning the weapon pod was part of the original design, but in testing I found it didn't really make the game better. I left it in there for when I expand this to the concept I originally had in mind.

@Winterblood: The letters Q,W,E,R,A,S,D,F letters next to the price indicate keyboard shortcuts for those items.

Thank you all for playing and commenting. It pleases me to no end to hear people enjoy this.

hamster_mk_4 2011-05-04 04:52

@Zemmi: the torpedo was supposed to be an anti zeppelin weapon. Unfortunately I never got around to making the enemy zeppelins.

the-jack 2011-05-05 15:33

Really cool to get a top-down flight game like this done in the time allotted.

I think that allowing unlimited ammo might had made it more fun, and perhaps limiting the fuel instead. I'm not sure though.

Great work, should def develop this further.

andrewbc 2011-05-05 16:18

This was -really- fun. If you kept working on it, you might have a good product to sell, I think.

endurion 2011-05-07 15:45

Very neat game!
I liked the zeppelin base and the overall setting. I've played "Free Fly", killed off enemies and suddenly they were all gone. Dang :)
Desperately needs sounds, music and a boss!

danik 2011-05-08 14:33

Quality game! Impressive amount of good artwork. When I played the 5 min mode the last minutes there wasn't any enemies around.

psysal 2011-05-14 17:54

Really solid little game. I really like the ship designs, and the core concept is excellent. I didn't seem to be able to survive very long, and/or collect money (although I did manage to shoot down a ship with my pea shooter...) Anyhow, would love to see this expanded with missions/etc.

mwest 2011-05-21 19:40

Excellent entry!

Really enjoyed the graphics and gameplay - I'm also a sucker for airships :P!

Hope to see this developed further...

nyaa 2011-05-22 12:17

Very attractive game, would love to see a longer version of this. Airships + pirates = awesome

erik 2011-05-22 22:57

Neat little game. With some balancing and some polish, I think it would be a lot of fun. I think further upgrades for your plane would be great. It took me a bit to figure out what was happening when I pushed z.

jonbro 2011-05-23 15:03

awesome! there seems to be a bug where the enemies just stop spawning after a certain point. Other than that, super great! awesome graphics.

The feeling of the plane is a tiny bit off as well, if there was some sort of acceleration to the turning and speed changing, that would be nice.