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Hoperay

By shackhal

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness359
Fun1073.48
Audio2862.83
Mood3012.92
Overall3803.06
Graphics5212.74
Theme5842.70
Humor7101.63
Innovation8102.03

Comments

seasons 2012-04-23 05:42

Nice entry Shackhal.

hume 2012-04-23 18:52

Dear engineers, you built a great ship. However, your pilot is no good.

Jumping right to the complex boss battle was a good decision I think. Makes things interesting right off the bat.

Good game!

dakowta 2012-04-23 20:49

Awesome

justinmullin 2012-04-23 21:59

Okay, I suck at these games...I can't beat it. xD Pretty solid shm'up fight though.

I do have to give the proverbial slap on the wrist, though...the music is awesome, but uh...just a wee bit familiar you might say? ;)

cambrian_era 2012-04-23 22:37

Aw, man. The third pattern seems to be my limit. Pretty fun, though!

mattchu 2012-04-23 23:18

Woah that was tough. Nice job.

My only complaint is that the ship's shooting sounds gets a bit irritating after a minute or two heh.

shackhal 2012-04-23 23:33

Thank you so much for your comments.

I know it's tough, i lose some times playing it xD.

But here is a hint: Both mini-spheres can be destroyed. But beware that they will re spawn after some time.

riamudimentis 2012-04-23 23:54

WOW This is awesome. It had me swearing and laughing, and... Oh man it was great! Thanks!

benswinden 2012-04-24 00:04

Nice work, i didnt have alot of fun but that's just because i dislike the genre you chose. Very well executed!

skully 2012-04-24 02:13

Great, loved the retro feel, from both gameplay and music

davedobson 2012-04-24 07:37

Fun, and well-made, if pretty simplistic. Very challenging gameplay - I tried many times and didn't manage to win, although I got a lot better and nearly did. I like the retro look and music, but I wish there were more to it than shooting a big disk 500 times.

shackhal 2012-04-24 08:36

Thanks again for your amazing comments.

DaveDobson, it's actually 300 hits to beat him xD

gremlin 2012-04-24 13:59

Man, this one is hard!

Since it's a comp game, and the music isn't yours, I had to give it an N/A for audio.

shackhal 2012-04-24 18:35

That's ok, i don't have any complains in that. But because i don't know how to make music, that doesn't mean i don't have to put music in there. I wanted to give it some feeling in there too.

And i'm proud with myself for the results.

devwil 2012-04-24 22:36

***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***

When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.

Please consider making a browser game next time.

danlthemanl 2012-04-24 22:39

Really fun, good amount of difficulty.

piman 2012-04-25 12:16

I can't rate this because I don't have a Windows system. Sorry.

benjamin-soule 2012-04-25 22:59

I almost killed it ! The music volume is too low, I had to stop firing to hear it :)

adventureislands 2012-04-26 18:53

That was frantic, nice retro feel and bullet hell difficulty, the music is Nintendo's Kirby boss theme though?

invaderjim 2012-04-26 23:06

Holy moles. That is madness! Figured out a good rhythm the second time around and was able to beat it :D Good job.

m-gryko85 2012-04-27 08:29

Awesome arcade style game. Really like sound effects and music. Tried many times but I cannot killed him

valeour 2012-04-28 13:07

Very fun arcade game, very difficult though.

valeour 2012-04-28 13:11

You should have said you didn't make the music, I had to rate it down, it's part of the rules, sorry. :(

shackhal 2012-04-28 19:09

Well, i had give the credits to their respective artists in the readme file and in the ending scene, like said in the Newgrounds' webpage, so i am not breaking any rights. And i don't have any problems to put it in my entry. Sorry if that upset you :(

Only i am sorry with myself for not knowing how to make music, but i wanted to add some appropriate music. It feels really different without music.

mooosh 2012-05-01 02:50

good work, Shackhal! the graphics were good, though I felt like they could have been more interesting in general. the gameplay itself felt nice and difficult, as a shmup should be.

but everything
is so
tiny o_o

I know that's the theme, but having to squint to dodge bullets in a bullet hell game is... agh.

r3ason 2012-05-02 00:26

Wow, well that game over music is fantastic! Great choice! But...But...Y NO POWERUPS?! :D Anyway, great game, keep up the good work, and look forward to seeing where you go with this or future games. Congrats on finishing LD 23! Thanks for making this!

menderslan 2012-05-02 00:26

Pretty fun entry, the bullet patterns were pretty tough. Would have liked for there to be a bit more too it.

skywilly 2012-05-07 12:26

Just genius ! I love this "Boss Attack", a good challenge for all Shmup's lovers.