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Gun Bat

By madmaw

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation94.45
Coolness357
Audio623.77
Overall3813.35
Mood4493.11
Fun5583.00
Theme7932.97
Graphics9022.62
Humor9221.91

Comments

druid 2014-04-28 10:17

Really interesting idea! :D

gagapete 2014-04-28 10:25

Innovative concept. Glad to see something like this can happen within 48 hours. Very motivating.
I'd love to see a 180 degress version, since it is pretty hard to eastimate if the enemy is in front or behind you.

kbm0 2014-04-28 10:26

Really digging the idea! Good job!

enepomnyaschih 2014-04-28 10:32

Nice, but it is difficult to understand whether a creep is in front of you or behind you. Especially when there are many creeps on the field. Also, it would be nice to be able to move.

cornedor 2014-04-28 10:33

Wow thats hard, awesome idea though

flopster 2014-04-28 10:40

Really cool, and a bit disorientating! My one gripe is that I would have liked to have a time limit.

ilo 2014-04-28 10:40

Innovative and different.
It felt good to hit an enemy on the first try. I do wonder if the player can exploit the game by continually rotating a little bit, then shooting, though.

pht59x 2014-04-28 10:42

Great video game for the blind !

madmaw 2014-04-28 11:08

As far as I could tell, the 3D audio in WebKit does nothing, so I had to hack my own implementation in. If it did work, front and back audio would sound different through some mathy magic, as it stands, you can work it out by turning a bit.

smbe19 2014-04-28 12:15

Took me a long time to figure out how to rotate. Would be nice if the controls were described somewhere.

dsoft20 2014-04-28 17:07

Nice concept! It works great on opera 20 :D

cosmologicon 2014-04-28 20:06

Nice and interesting. Effectively done and really sets the creepy mood. As it is, I would have liked "turn and fire randomly" to be less effective of a strategy, either through things you need to not shoot, or limited bullets, or something.

ahmeni 2014-04-29 00:37

This is fantastic!

integershift 2014-04-29 01:15

The game is good, however I was stuck at the beginning with no idea what I was doing...

5t4mp5 2014-04-29 04:16

This is a really interesting idea, and you executed well. It seems like rotating a bit and shooting works for a good while. But once I got to near the 100 second mark, I found that actually listening was affective. Really enjoyed it.

darkflamejam 2014-04-30 14:20

Fantastic concept! Really hard but really enjoyable! My ears hurt

mrexcessive 2014-05-01 04:06

Hi. Nice sounding ships, couldn't get the hang of audio-only play mode!

pancakecity 2014-05-01 15:16

Impressive concept!

alexdantas 2014-05-02 00:51

The idea was awesome, even though it's very hard.
Hey, at least you warned me about the requirement of headphones...

f7f5 2014-05-03 15:31

Very good concept, just a pity you couldn't get the 3D sound concept working. I enjoyed playing it a lot, but it can get really confusing quicky, when many different enemies are on the field.

Btw, it works great on Chrome, but just crashed at some point on Firefox (linux).

vandash 2014-05-06 11:34

Super nice idea - really hard though! Perhaps the bullets could change pitch or something the closer they are to an enemy?

davidwparker 2014-05-07 15:35

Neat concept. The audio only mode was difficult / not as fun (even with headphones). It would be nice if there was an easier way to rotate while still being able to fire.

elefantopia 2014-05-11 00:07

Nice clean graphics. Its a good idea, but the controls were not smooth.

jacic 2014-05-17 18:56

Great idea, quite difficult! :)

madmaw 2014-05-18 07:14

It's designed for mobile, so the desktop controls are a little neglected. In hindsight, allowing people to use the left and right keys to rotate probably would have been a good idea. If you are playing on the mobile, try out the compass mode as that's a much better way of turning than the drag gesture.