Nanobeast
- Score:
- rated 4.03 / 5 stars
- Views:
- 405,303 Views
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- Genre:
- Action - Shooter - Multidirectional
- shooter
- action
- arcade
- retro
Credits & Info
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Author RatherRandom
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Song =Guilt and Ecstasy=
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Song 8-Bit Victory
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Song Low Drag - [8-bit]
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Song (8-bit) Chop Suey
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Song [Dr.S] Great Success
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Song Vortex - [8-bit]
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Song Boss Theme - [8-bit]
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Song High Tides - [8-bit]
- Uploaded
- Aug 12, 2011 | 2:23 PM EDT
- File Info
- Game
- 3.5 mb
- Daily Feature August 13, 2011
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Author Comments
Finally, after more than a year of development I am proud to present this Nanobeast to fellow newgroundians.
The game is a challenging retro shooter with an interesting upgrade system that involves collecting power-ups. However, when you collect a power-up (P) that does not mean you have upgraded immediately. You get to choose how to use those power-ups to upgrade your general stats:
- speed of your ship (you need 1 power-up)
- power of your weapon (you need 2 power-ups)
- fire rate of your weapon (you need 3 power-ups)
- bombs (you need 4 power-ups)
- lives (you need 5 power-ups)
There are 2 additional weapons to be collected as you play: missiles and side gun.
There are 27 medals to be achieved, go get them!!!
CONTROLS:
Use the arrow keys to move
Press 'A' to shoot left
Press 'D' to shoot right
Press 'S' to activate your current power-up level
Press 'W' to release a bomb
The game is generally very challenging. There are three difficulty settings: normal, hard and insane. There is no easy.
The highscore system multiplies your score depending on which difficulty setting you play and how many medals you have collected.
The game features original 8-bit music written especially for 'Nanobeast' by Christian Erenskjold a.k.a Coffee-Break, a very talented NG musician. Other musicians who also contributed are listed in the credits.
I have been developing and beta testing this game heavily for a long time. Any feedback and ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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Daily 1st, Weekly 2nd in games, Weekly 8th overall and more than 350K plays? Thank you Newgrounds! You guys are absolutely outstanding!!! Every single one of you.
Hope you enjoy and see you soon with another game!
- Hristo Atanasov (RatherRandom)
Reviews
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars October 3, 2012
Pretty good old school shooter. THANK YOU for not forcing WASD for movement! The only thing I would change would be a few seconds of flashing invincibility to locate where your ship respawns after death; lost 3 lives in a row with a massive swarm of enemies.
Rated 2 / 5 stars July 4, 2012
I tried to play this game, and unfortunately, the controls are broken. They lock on to the last position or key button pushed and navigating the ship is almost impossible.
I really thought this would be a good game, with its retro-looking NES style, but the controls just ruin it.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars May 17, 2012
Not bad but it kinda drags on a lot and its basically just Gradius with less power-ups and it's really repetitive and easy
Rated 5 / 5 stars March 15, 2012
Choosing your own power ups +1
Old school Galaga feel to it +1
Fast pace in your face pew pew action +1
Entertaining fun & a challenge +2
Overall well done.
Rated 1 / 5 stars February 24, 2012
The player controls are terrible and make immersion almost impossible.
Using both common movement key groups as movement and special actions is confusing and using the arrow keys always leads to locks control lock ups.
The graphics and segues are crappy but this is "retro," right?