Thursday, April 23, 2009

Alien Invasion!

I liked the gameplay of those asteroids-in-the-sky so much I made a whole new level out of it!

Now instead of "Easy" and "Hard", there is:
  • Normal hasn't changed from Easy - it's the same, easy to control, solid victory conditions game that you know and love.
  • Pro hasn't changed from Hard except for the graphics - the boulders that hover in the air are now alien spaceships.
  • Aliens! is a brand new game mode where you get as many points as you can in 120 seconds! Because of the scoring mechanism that probably means grabbing as many stars as you can. There's no way to lose (except leaving the arena), and running out of time will win you the game. Changing levels just alters the semi-random layout of the spaceships/stars.
I also turned boost back to a "hold down" key instead of a tap.

Check out Build 41 here or just visit the official Space Squid homepage (new site design is coming soon!)

E: Increased alien mode from 60->120 seconds and removed death-by-limb-removal. Didn't increase the build version for this change.

2 comments:

  1. Coming along nicely. I like the music a lot :)

    Now I am just looking forward to the customized scoreboards I talked to you about :P

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  2. Working on customized scoreboards now :) Just an FYI that it's a big enough change that highscores are going to be disabled as of now for versions 41 and earlier. Once 42 is out we'll have fancy highscoreness back again. (the old scores aren't lost, just the db connection has been outdated)

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