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Alpha Centauri_DEMO

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Alpha Centauri is a fast paced sci-fi shooter. Set in the future. In this Demo, you get access to 4 weapon power-ups and 2 Auxiliary power-ups.


I just finished some tutorials, and this is my first attempt at developing a game. Hope you enjoy the demo.

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A suggestion?

I enjoyed the game and honestly the music didn't bother me at all, but I tend to drown out things like that anyway. The one big thing I noticed during game play was the 'cheap zones' as I'd call them. If you put your ship at the top of the screen or at the bottom (all the way) you'll almost never have to deal with anything getting in your way. At the top sometimes you might have to deal with a silver ship but at the bottom just about nothing dips down that low. While as a player its nice in a way, at the same time it also took away dramatically from the challenge of the game for me. The only time I took hits was for my own stupid mistakes in trying to dive down to grab power ups quick. Maybe stick something in these top or bottom areas to keep players from staying there the whole game? I found that especially when you get the "shoot the heavens" of "shoot to hell" there's no reason at all to ever come down from a spot on the top of the screen as long as you hang back (to the left of the screen) and hold down the space bar to have a constant stream of fire. Unless this design was intentional, then please ignore this comment. haha. I'm not going to knock on the graphics as you all ready said you're planning on redoing them.

Stereotypical3 responds:

hmm... no challenge is no fun, I'll work on that, prob if I make enemies come from behind prob would mix things up a bit

Great 1st try

I really enjoyed the demo. Your power ups had promise, but it was luck of the draw on what power up you got. You need to make a way that you can tell what power up is what before you collect it so you have the best before you reach the boss. I loved the flower power up grade, but picked up another power up and lost it right before the boss. Just a head up man.

Stereotypical3 responds:

That is something I will be doing, also wait till the full version, later levels will have Auxiliary and weapon power ups that I hope will make people be like "WTF AWSOME!"

Yawn

Boring shooter too repetitive nothing new or interesting. Listen to the dudes below they have good advice. Mine, make better graphics.

None the less Ill give you points for effort

This is surprisingly entertaining,

It's not that nice looking, but I had a rather fun time playing it, the music is a little annoying, but other than that I like it. 6/10 3/5

Stereotypical3 responds:

haha, well I'm glad that the core game play is fun. I Intend to go back and redraw a lot of the graphics. the level music I'll change, but I really like the boss music. thx for the tip.

Somewhat liked it

Im no big fan of shooters, but I liked this piece somewhat. Yeah, graphics are bad and music is loopy, but at least the controls and collision work!
I think it could need more space to move.

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4,124
Votes
7
Score
4.13 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jul 17, 2010
2:48 AM EDT