Minimalism - the shoot 'em up by CiderPunk

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made by CiderPunk for LD26 (COMPO)
Designed mostly for touch screens but you control it entirely through the mouse.

The story is entirely pointless and minimal, basically shoot things, get points and collect powerups to increase your fire power, it'll get progressively harder and there is no end.

In my tests the web and desktop versions ran pretty much the same (using chrome), but your results may vary, clicking top right shows fps, if its below 60 try the desktop versions. the windows is an exe created by typing random numbers into launch4j, there's also a JAR that should work on anything!

The android version is now available on google play!


Top of my wishlist of things to add are new enemies, waves, bosses and some sort of background to fight over, but i spent too long on my engine (which is now pretty good!) and getting it to compile in GWT, which it does...sort of.

Ratings

Coolness 88% 2
Overall 2.79 954
Audio 2.44 711
Fun 2.81 711
Graphics 2.87 695
Humor 2.58 338
Innovation 1.87 1292
Mood 2.46 962
Theme 2.68 1211

Feedback

josefnpat
29. Apr 2013 路 11:04 UTC
Solid mechanics and gameplay!

There isn't much to this game, but then again; minimalism!
馃帳 CiderPunk
29. Apr 2013 路 11:10 UTC
Updated to correct a typo, I got the month wrong! stupids am I. now to play some other games!
馃帳 CiderPunk
29. Apr 2013 路 11:12 UTC
Thanks! that was totally what i was going for!... kinda..
Morgawr
29. Apr 2013 路 11:35 UTC
Simple game, a bit awkward to play with a mouse though.
aquilicoco
29. Apr 2013 路 11:37 UTC
Ahhh!! flying potatoes!!!
XD

good work.
triplefox
29. Apr 2013 路 11:54 UTC
Too much gameplay...
kewry
29. Apr 2013 路 12:13 UTC
The game games dull really fast, perhaps because of how strong them potatoes are
馃帳 CiderPunk
29. Apr 2013 路 12:26 UTC
potatoes gonna potate yo
Qrchack
29. Apr 2013 路 15:08 UTC
cool entry, lacks actual gameplay though (bonuses, so on)... I managed to get 1k points lol
gizmo
29. Apr 2013 路 16:22 UTC
potatoes!
Shigor
29. Apr 2013 路 16:23 UTC
Poor potatoes :/

Very minimalistic shooter (unless i've missed something, but I got tired after dodging all those fries to be, the only thing I found was a shooting powerup....)
Lucas Tiridath
29. Apr 2013 路 16:25 UTC
Simple and seems to be well implemented. Maybe the potatoes are a little too tough but all the same, well done.
Beerman
29. Apr 2013 路 18:41 UTC
Cool, a fellow libGdx user. Fun little shooter - you should have called it Spud Gunner though :D
GingerMess
30. Apr 2013 路 21:59 UTC
Shootin' da spudz. It was fun comparing progress with you Cider, good luck with your entry. :)
BenW
01. May 2013 路 00:36 UTC
Neat little game. I couldn't tell if there was an end to the powerups you could get and overall the game felt a bit on the easy side but I did enjoy it.
馃帳 CiderPunk
01. May 2013 路 08:45 UTC
The final gun upgrade is a 5 way blaster, there are 7 levels of upgrade,
my high score is 80,000 something :)
whilefun
01. May 2013 路 12:57 UTC
I found the controls with the mouse to be a bit hard to master. Nice use of the theme, and nod to potatoes haha :)
Docteur
01. May 2013 路 22:09 UTC
Potatoes gonna potate.
Rafael Sales
03. May 2013 路 19:38 UTC
Funny game! hahaha
ohsqueezy
05. May 2013 路 16:17 UTC
That was fun! Surprisingly addictive and deep because of the high level power ups.
馃帳 CiderPunk
07. May 2013 路 09:08 UTC
yay thanks!
asifmahmood
08. May 2013 路 11:52 UTC
Really liked the game ... a real time killer ... Simple and a great time killer ... good job
Zoidbergtron
12. May 2013 路 01:55 UTC
I loved this game! I thought the controls were great, as a fan of these arcade style shooters I thought this was somehow more enjoyable than most I have played on a touchscreen. Obviously you already said what needs to be improved, but this was great!
Super Hamster
15. May 2013 路 16:03 UTC
Very interesting game.
Mach60KAS
18. May 2013 路 12:21 UTC
A very fun Shmup, good job! :)
DDRKirby(ISQ)
18. May 2013 路 12:45 UTC
So many potatoes...
sP0CkEr2
19. May 2013 路 04:05 UTC
42,471 -- i like the game -- tight controls