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RailGunner

By kunonooni

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness368
Fun2473.45
Audio4682.87
Overall5233.23
Humor5282.52
Graphics5333.13
Mood5772.91
Theme6443.54
Innovation8712.66

Comments

jupitron 2014-12-08 04:04

Awesome particle effects! Put some music and its great!

von-hunt 2014-12-08 04:05

I was so bad at this haha. It's really well done though. Shooting enemy bullets is definitely something that is underutilized in games like this so good job on that.

frenzyasii 2014-12-09 01:50

very cool! :)

ramonparaiba 2014-12-09 01:55

insanely dificult, but makes me remember to the Atari old school's games

angela 2014-12-09 01:58

Pretty impressive, especially considering you scrapped 2 ideas. Kinda fun too. My only suggestion would be - I would start out a little easier and gradually get harder.

jocamar 2014-12-09 03:43

For 18 hours this is really good. It gets really hard and I don't know if it keeps getting harder but I had fun playing it.

seriousdeath 2014-12-09 03:43

Score: 28050, probably not that good xD Fun little game, love the countdown heh

digibody 2014-12-09 03:43

Loved the frentic energy of it all, I was thinking why the wings at the ends of the ship. I got caught a few times thinking I dodged a bullet, very space invadery feel. Loved the 5 second countdown, nice touch.

rmc 2014-12-09 03:46

Hard as an Atari game. Nice job, very good game.

kunonooni 2014-12-09 04:44

Thank you all for your kind words. It is suppose to be a little bullet hellish, so that explains the difficulty. I did add the ability to destroy the enemy bullets and you do get 50 points for doing it. So if nothing else you can stay alive by taking them out.

I did have music, but nothing I tried seems to fit and it made the game feel to noisy. So I cut the music.




@ramonparaiba & @rmc: Thank you both. Its not everyday you get compared to such a great console. I am in very good company. :)

@jocamar each wave after the first wave the game gets a little harder, but it caps out at wave 5.

@digibody Spaceships are suppose to have wings :), though I will admit I should have made the bounding box on the player a little smaller. Honestly I never thought about it. I was too worried about finishing the game before the deadline.

sirricecake 2014-12-09 05:05

Nice particle effects!

karlipoppins 2014-12-09 23:17

Very fun, fast-moving and dynamic little shooter. Well done. Very hard, couldn't get passed wave 3!

billrizer 2014-12-09 23:50

Nice SFX! Would have liked some extra retro overlay GFX and different colored enemy bullets

pjimmy 2014-12-10 01:05

nice shooter, love the retro feeling

tcarter 2014-12-10 05:09

Simple clean graphics. Very nice!

alfadur 2014-12-10 14:34

Well done for 18 hours! I like the contrast between the ships on different rails. Shooting down bullets might be a bit overpowered though, I accidentally found a spot a bit off the center where it was possible to just stay in one place holding the fire button. It would be nice if the bullets had a bit more sideways motion to them.

jacic 2014-12-10 23:01

Very fun and arcadey! The particles were good too. :)

flashrocks 2014-12-10 23:22

Very nice! Brought back memories :) I love 8-bit style games, haha. 5 stars for the graphics just for the 8-bit.

That said, didn't really fit the theme IMO. There wasn't scrolling, but you didn't really.. embrace the theme, I suppose. 4 stars overall, and the 5 star I've given out this Ludum Dare, so yeah, awesome.

intersectiongames 2014-12-11 03:59

Nice job, especially for less than 18 hours. Solid little shooter. Difficulty curve does a little steep. I think the first wave at least should be a little easier to allow the player a little bit of time to get used to the game/mechanics/controls.

incredible-ape 2014-12-13 19:37

Nice work, KunoNoOni! Would be really great if there were some kind of bomb or something to clear pathways if you get tunneled into a spot on the screen.

HelkeGames 2014-12-14 17:26

Nice particle effects and mechanics! the gameplay is really addcitive well done! ^^

geckoo1337 2014-12-14 17:28

A nice alternative for the great Invaders game. I like it. Well done ++

asobitech 2014-12-16 15:02

Good old skool shooting.
I would have added diagonal moving bullets for added challenge.

gameattack 2014-12-26 10:04

Nice job,love the retro feeling. very good game.