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Vacuous

By rhinoceros

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness361
Fun5722.91
Graphics6762.70
Audio7182.23
Overall7712.85
Mood8412.35
Humor9061.59
Theme11102.25
Innovation11881.65

Comments

namrog84 2013-08-26 03:15

Nice clean graphics, solid gameplay, great controls
It was very to the point and was executed perfectly.

The powerups didn't really seem to change anything though?

cogentinvalid 2013-08-26 03:17

The gameplay is pretty standard but I liked the vector-style graphics, and the powerups were a nice addition.

heychinaski 2013-08-26 03:24

Nice solid enjoyable shooter. Very replayable. I need to beet boss 2! I like the graphical style as well.

heychinaski 2013-08-26 03:25

er ... beat not beet :)

caranha 2013-08-26 03:30

Huh... I could not start the game :-( I see the title screen, but the game won't respond to me pressing keys or clicking.

dalbinblue 2013-08-26 03:50

I like the Vectrex style. Unfortunately got an error after defeating the level three boss:

main.lua:905: attempt to perform arithmetric on global 'num' (a null value)

Traceback

main.lua:905: in function 'activephase'
main.lua:1530: in function 'update'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

rhinoceros 2013-08-26 04:09

1) Ah, god damnit, I thought I renamed all those variables.

-Should- be fixed now. had to rename num2 to num on 903 & 907.

2) yeah, to start the game you need to unpause it (escape). I probably should have made that more clear.

kerinova 2013-08-26 05:39

I love the art style. Nice simplistic shooter!

conflei 2013-08-26 05:39

Shooter yes!

leafo 2013-08-26 06:50

Pretty nice. You've got a good amount of levels which is not an easy feat.

poohshoes 2013-08-26 10:14

The windows version crashes whey I try to load it up.

josefnpat 2013-08-26 11:07

Very nice, lots of levels!

rhinoceros 2013-08-26 19:11

@poohshoes, could you give a more detailed crash report? Does it crash before opening the window, does it open the game, but the window turns blue and gives while text and tracebacks and main.lua?

Otherwise, I'm really relieved that 3 planned levels was enough. I'd originally planned to do 5, but couldn't even start doing the last two because polishing was more important to me.
Still never did add in an animation for bombs, though that was something I'd thought about doing for about half the I was coding.

ddionisio 2013-08-26 20:08

Nice work on the vector-art, it looked great! The pacing is a little slow for a shoot-em-up though. Needs more things to come at the screen and shoot at you. But those bosses are freaking hard! The boss fights are the fun parts.

firezenk 2013-08-27 08:19

Really nice game! A lot of bullets on screen at the same time!
But on OSX: bombs doesn't show and the keys "O" and "P" are inverted :S

recursor 2013-08-27 12:04

Nice vector art.

latcarf 2013-08-27 13:47

Nice game! (and it works well with an Xbox 360 gamepad (on Linux))

kragnir 2013-08-28 01:35

Nice shooter a bit too much waiting.

_alts 2013-08-28 04:12

Wow, this feels really polished. Made it to wave 56 with 5 lives left before I quit. I feel like it could use a bit more challenge or a faster pace to keep me really interested. One other recommendation is having a dedicated HUD area. Having enemies and bullets behind text is kind of upset.

Other than that, this is a really well executed game. Good job. Really impressed with the bullet patterns too.

pixelfan 2013-08-28 10:55

i like the graphics, gameplay, but no theme here, good sounds. Very funny.

withoutpillow 2013-08-30 14:43

Like a rudimentary bullet hell shmup, not to hard, fun, and good although repetitive boss battles. The button-layout felt very natural, and controls were responsive. Took me a while to get used to the hit box, but i'm not sure if i really want it to be smaller. Managed to get to wave 80 and got a score of 12640; i like that the game continues with random waves, cause i didn't want it to spot after those three stages. Good work!

anotheryeti 2013-09-04 06:05

Felt super clean and complete. Nice job!

gvmakesgames 2013-09-10 10:58

Nice graphics, very very simple. I don't know what the powerups do (but I downloaded only the .love and edited it, so I think I've destroyed something). I'll download the original again, and see what do they do.

almax27 2013-09-11 21:04

I didn't get the power up effect =/