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Solus

By morganquirk

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio333.50
Graphics433.91
Mood633.44
Overall743.39
Fun1472.89
Theme3702.61
Innovation4112.27
Coolness56020
Humor5981.24
Community6441.70

Comments

testsubject06 2011-12-19 06:25

Awesome job Morgan!

ncannasse 2011-12-19 11:58

Nice job ! Love the boss !

randomasta 2011-12-19 16:43

Cool visual!

tcstyle 2011-12-19 16:50

Wow! Great sound and graphics. I found the kitten btw :D.

andrew-2 2011-12-19 16:57

Just a wee bit too slow for a shmup.

increpare 2011-12-19 23:17

the speed/pacing made dying very punishing, and replaying somewhat unpleasant.

dr_soda 2011-12-19 23:38

You have some incredibly high levels of polish on this game. I really like the visual white noise overlay, and the soundtrack is just awesome.

merthsoft 2011-12-20 04:25

This is really fun. A little hard, I keep dying, but a lot of fun.

bach 2011-12-20 04:35

This is cool. Great amount of polish! I agree though that the speed is a little slow.

Awesome entry.

marudziik 2011-12-20 11:35

Very nice looking, but small area of view add some artificial difficulty. Great entry.

galman 2011-12-20 15:20

Sweet graphics and sounds. well done!

the-jack 2011-12-21 05:40

I died pretty hard in this. Liked the Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet vibe.

codexus 2011-12-21 17:26

Nicely executed shmup, but the limited field of view combined with slowness of the game and how easy it is to die made me give up rather quickly.

morganquirk 2011-12-21 18:23

thank you all for your feedback, criticism, and nice words :)

angrygeometry 2011-12-21 23:43

holy heck, this is extremely polished and looks fantastic. nice job!

shigor 2011-12-22 15:15

It looks very good (nice mood :), but the oh so slowness combined with restarting from the start with every small mistake makes it quite annoying... I rage quit after a while :/

matthias_zarzecki 2011-12-22 22:25

Like the salvo-effect. Feels hefty. Mood is nice aswell.

caranha 2011-12-22 22:27

Very freaking good! The idea is simple, but the execution is magnificent. I loved the graphics, the level design, the boss battle and the hidden kittens!

Thanks for the amazing game, and nice work!

Edit: It seems that I've played a version where you don't start from the beginning when you die. Thanks for that!

balooga03 2011-12-22 23:24

Nice game, feels really polished. Some passages are a bit hard but thats ok for shmup. I found it a bit too dark, didn't see the ship properly and a bit too slow sometimes. But all in all really good job.

sonnybone 2011-12-23 09:55

As others have said, the slow progress and quick deaths made this a bit frustrating. AMAZING visuals and sound, though. Really atmospheric shmup... whereas most are huge bullet dodge sessions. Good job!

someguy22 2011-12-23 16:40

Good job, but too hard! The game should restart faster after you die.

And it felt like I had limited movement on the ship, as if I wasn't in full control. It felt like the ship had to rotate or something to get better aim.

But otherwise great graphics and mood, the vignette especially helps!

pierrec 2011-12-31 17:34

Well...it's a shoot'em up...but an amazing one, especially for 48h. I don't like shmup very much but was astounished by the visual and audio, congrats!

menderslan 2012-01-04 18:47

Great work! I love this kind of game. Excellent graphics as well. I really liked the screen effect when you use a bomb, very cool.