I’ve been having trouble with my work ethic, so last week I committed myself to doing 40 hours of proper work, no matter what. The idea was, everyone does a 40 hour week as normal, right? So it should be easy – the bare minimum. Shame on me if I can’t do it.
Given my tendency to muck about, this meant I ended up working pretty much solidly through the evenings of Monday-Friday, but I did it! And that 40 hours work led to a pretty solid start on my new game. There’s a new playable version beneath the jump.
Give it some time to load. It’s about a megabyte, and I haven’t written a preloader yet. You’ll hear the music when it starts 🙂
Click on it to start controlling the game.
Arrow keys: move
X, Z: your ship’s weapons
C: suicide
R: restart game
Beat waves to get lives.
Die to get time.
When your ship dies, you’ll take over an ally ship if available. Whenever your entire wave dies though you lose 1 life, gain 20 seconds, and take over a ship in the enemy wave to FIGHT BACK at the wave you were just playing.
When you die, watch the flashing outline to see which ship you’ve just changed to.
It’s a little bit confusing, I know, but give it a try and let me know what you think. Tell me your best high score, too! It’ll help me tune the difficulty 😀