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scrionevoloooom

By hnjslater

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Innovation6732.63
Humor7361.67
Mood8892.05
Fun9412.04
Overall9612.24
Graphics9711.68
Theme9841.70

Comments

delfino 2013-12-16 04:25

Interesting mechanic rotating the ships, though it was kinda tough for me to switch to the shield guy to use it in time to help out a whole lot. Works fine on my Windows 7 machine btw

tompudding 2013-12-16 22:54

I won! The mechanic is just the right kind of unusual, but the control scheme is too unusual! My little finger does not want to play games, garrrrrgh.

parapup 2013-12-16 23:56

This was weird but it was good x3

ambi 2013-12-17 00:08

Oh man installing Pygame on Windows is such a pain. All I have currently is Pyglet. Please make a ready to run executable if you can.

sudorossy 2013-12-17 01:03

Needs a windows executable, rather than making everyone download pygame.

voidqk 2013-12-17 01:11

could not run... I guess I don't have pygame..? not sure

moomoo112 2013-12-17 01:25

It difficult and confusing, but I somehow won.
I like the concept of having the specialized ships rotate out though.

blushine 2013-12-17 01:41

Kind of cool having different ships to switch on-the-fly. Even though it kind of goes against the "you only get one" theme. Controls are definitely odd, but I still managed to win the game, but I only used the starting ship.

pwnedu46 2013-12-17 03:00

I have python 3.3 and pygame installed but couldn't get it to work. Is this written in python 2?

donaldducky 2013-12-17 03:14

I wanted to try this but I can't seem to install pygame on OS X.

coblynau 2013-12-17 20:14

Since I do not have Python installed I cannot play. Shame. :(

hnjslater 2013-12-17 20:33

pwnedu46, Ok it works in python3 now (a couple of one liners, I think it counts as porting)

felix20 2013-12-17 21:36

Nice little game, interesting mechanic. A bit too easy, won on my first try. Graphics could definitely use quite a bit of work.
Remember sound is always a bonus, even if it's just a few sound effects.
Good luck and keep at it!

zephyr-raine 2013-12-17 21:38

A bit short and confusing, it's hard to immerse in the game without music. =/
Don't understood how to kill the fat mobs, but the fact you've got several specialized ships is pretty cool. =)

jezzamon 2013-12-17 23:33

Not playable on a mac.

hnjslater 2013-12-18 01:08

I actually developed in on a Mac, so it is playable, you just need to install pygame. Frankly, I've never managed to get py2exe or pyinstaller to work on a Mac and I'm not madly inclined to have another go. If you really want to play it, install pygame. If you don't, I can live with it.

undonedevs 2013-12-18 01:22

Little weird but I like it! :)

kane 2013-12-18 09:14

Funny little shmup, but not sure to understand why i had win Oo

scipio-xaos 2013-12-19 02:10

Interesting game, but the controls were, honestly, very difficult to grab... and then there was the mysterious "I won?" Not sure how that happened. :P

ld_lan_party 2013-12-19 02:37

Challenging. Default controls made it difficult, though interesting.

mortl8324 2013-12-19 08:57

Decent game. Man... the controls were awful. In the end I just used the shield ship to block everything by tapping space repeatedly and won.

bvanschooten 2014-01-04 13:42

Rotating between weapons is an interesting idea. It takes time to get used to the controls. Maybe a control where you immediately switch between the 3 weapons would be better. Before I knew it, it said "you won".

jedi 2014-01-06 00:24

Well, all you promised was an awful shmup so I'm not disappointed :P

It's not so awful, switching weapons happened too slowly to be more than a gimmick though. Also, I'm against button mashing. I'm not against inexplicably winning though (Was I the alien horde all along?)