Mega Popoidz
Posted: September 9, 2012 Filed under: Games 20 Comments »
So last night I made a thing for a glorious trainwrcks thing, and I liked it so I fixed it up some today and made this 🙂
I’ve been entertaining the idea of making it a “Pay if you want” thing, but I figured if I was going to have to ask for money I’d need to do proper testing and set up a web page and products in fastspring and what-not, but I couldn’t be bothered! so here, have it free and if you desperately want to give me money after then you buy something I’m actually selling (did you know swift*stitch is on sale this week from IndieVania, IndieCity and Desura?)
Controls: Arrow keys + X
> DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS <
> DOWNLOAD FOR OSX <
If you set a score you are happy with, let me know! my record right now is 747
~ UPDATE: ~
since it was requested in the comments, there are now linux builds: 32-bit and 64-bit.
and just because I could, there’s also an iOS version
Linux?…
oh go on then 🙂
32 bit: https://sophiehoulden.com/games/popoidz/MegaPopoidz_lin32.zip
64 bit: https://sophiehoulden.com/games/popoidz/MegaPopoidz_lin64.zip
built with a beta version of unity so don’t blame me if your penguin chokes on it 😛
Fantastic, thank you!
/me looks at the timings of the posts.
Fuck yeah, indies!
Lovely.
No fullscreen on linux ?
no sorry. it looks like the current version of unity doesn’t support it yet, hopefully that will be fixed when it’s out of beta
Cool, decompressed and tested!
A resizing for netbook user’s (1024×600) like me, would be a neat feature 😉
Greets
Love the vector graphics! Some perfect storm of events happened and when I died the sound was REALLY-REALLY-SPEAKER-RIPPING-LOUD. Hope your future games babysit the sound buffer a bit more vigilantly 🙂 Enjoyed myself and got a high score of 700.
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921 Points here! Great Indie game.
Awesome ! And thanks for the Linux builds (Linux 64bits working flawlessly, btw).
I really dig this whole “drawn with lines” style of yours!
Hey, this is a really nice take on many classics that I enjoy! And it manages to be both modern and reduced in its approach. Cool work!
Managed to hit 816 by moving only when absolutely necessary and releasing a steady stream of lightning in regular intervals. Didn’t work a second time, though 🙂
My highscore is 1280 so far. Tried quite a while, but haven’t beat it yet. I tend to be killed by the purple shrapnel the most.
http://s10.postimage.org/70a4cy6ag/Untitled.jpg
I see all the inactive objects have a certain transparency and the ship and weapon trails are always fully opaque. I thought the weapon trails were a little distracting. I would like to see the segments closer to the ship be more transparent when they are released, then have the whole trails fade slightly with age. I found it was possible to have several flocks going at the same time and this would make them less distracting.
1243 is my high. I like this, it’s one of those games where you can get into a (very fragile) groove.
As a big fan of Linear RPG, I’m liking this. A bit hard and a bit rough, but still neat.
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Still trying to beat my highscore. Anyway, I really like this, so I wanted to give another suggestion to maybe try. I was thinking it might be better to have the tilting reversed so its tilting the ship towards the camera as opposed to away.
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