A little old-school, but good
reminded me of the default game on that Vektrex system thing or whatever its called .... ancient machinery that one :) but yea its pretty addicting.. i died at wave 14 :/ stupid suicide bombers lol
Reviews for "Neon"
It's Alright *shrug*
I didn't like it much for ONE MAIN REASON: maneuverability. You can't shoot behind you, or around you, only in front of you. So you can't run from AND fight the same enemies. By the time you turn around to fight, you're hit by something. I didn't get too far in the game, but it seems the blue pluses have uncounterable counter-attacks, am I wrong? Don't take me up on that part, just the maneuverability.
It looks like you are modeling this somewhat like Geometry Wars. Well, in Geo-Wars, you get to move you ship and your gun independently of eachother. This would be hard to implement on a keyboard though, the Xbox and Xbox360 version of Geo-Wars use both analog sticks, one for ship movement, the other for gun movement. You could program the arrow keys < and > to rotate the gun, but it wouldn't be as fast as Geo-Wars.
Your concept is in no way original, but it has good potential. I suspect you will receive a much better score next time if you encorporate more maneuverability.
varstudios responds:
Thanks for the feedback.
The blue enemies can be destroyed when their shields are down if thats what your asking.
As for the controls, as i have said before, i did have some issues when deciding on the control scheme, but like you said, i thought the arrow keys would be far too slow.
In version 2 which i'm just starting, ive already added a new control feature which means changing direction quickly without hitting enemies is now possible. It will still most likely remain mouse controled though.
Interesting
This is a hard and very interesting game. It's challenging and made me want to keep going to increase my score. Though there could be more style and better graphics. But overall it's good and it's basic.
ditto, no mac support?
mac user here, "left" click doesn't work. Howabout left click and spacebar in a 2.0 version? Ditto, looks smooth though.
Shuh..
it was neither good or bad